Affirm
Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative.
输血前要确定血液是阴性还是阳性。
注：字面意思是：输血前要确定血液是肯定的还是否定的。
An applicant was filling out a job application. When he came to the question, "Have you ever been arrested?" He answered, "No."
The next question, intended for people who had answered in the affirmative to the last one, was "Why?" The applicant answered it anyway: "Never got caught."
一个应聘者正填写应聘表格。填到"是否被逮捕过？"这个问题时，他回答："否"。下一个问题是让回答"是"的人填"为什么？"应聘者填写："从没被抓住过。"
注：一个诚实的应聘者。
Afflict
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
每个人都有足够的勇气忍受别人的痛苦。
注：别人发生可不幸的事我们有很多理由劝他，但当轮到自己头上，情况就完全不一样了。
艺术家的气质是一种折磨着业余爱好者的疾病，。
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
注：业余爱好者没有艺术家的气质，但他们很多人留着长头发、戴着墨镜来弥补一下。
Agony
I've never heard anything that so clearly suggests the agony of primitive man as your attempt to play the cello.
我从来没有这么清晰地听过你尝试演奏大提琴时所表达出来的原始人的痛苦。
注：原始人的痛苦是什么样的？
He looks like he's in great agony when he plays the cello, probably because he was dramatically ripped off when he bought it.
他演奏大提琴时显得非常痛苦，可能买大提琴时被人狠宰了一刀。
No doubt the real agony of Hell won't be the burning fires but having all the secret humiliations of your life played back to you in perpetuity and in stereo.
毫无疑问下地狱的真正痛苦不会是熊熊的烈火，而是把你一生中不被人所知的屈辱一遍又一遍立体声回放。
注：人生不容易，有很多的屈辱深深埋在心底，不想让别人知道。
Agreeable
No one can be as unagreeable as an uninvited guest.
没有谁象没有被邀请的客人那么让人不快的了。
注：
If you didn't buy me a drink, I'd tell everyone you are not agreeable and very mean.
如果你不请我喝酒，我就会告诉别人你令人很不愉快，很小气。
在我看来一个令人愉悦的人就是同意我的人，你同意我的观点吗？
My ides of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Do you agree to my point?
I admit I would rather choose a wife who has the usual number of limbs ... and although one eye may be very agreeable, society has always been in favor of two.
我承认我宁愿选择一个四肢健全的妻子......尽管一只眼睛也可能很令人愉快，但世俗的偏见还是认为两只眼睛好。
注：世俗的偏见认为两只眼睛好，认为头发茂盛好。
Aide
I'm the kind of person who'd get a paper cut trying to open a Band-Aide.
我是那种想打开"邦迪创可贴"，却把手划破了的人。
注：运气不好，喝凉水都塞牙。
air-conditioning
If you want to just be warm in your room, please control yourself. -- From the instructions on a Japanese hotel air conditioner.
如果你只想要房间里暖和，请控制你自己--日本一家旅馆空调使用说明。
Most criminals actually work long hours, frequently in buildings without air-conditioning.
大部分罪犯实际工作时间很长，而且经常在没有空调的建筑物里。
注：要当罪犯必须要承受一些东西。
Why don't rabbits get hot in the summertime?
They have hare-conditioning.
为什么兔子在夏天不会觉得热？
它们有空调。
注：Hare(兔子)与Air(空气)。
What gets colder as it warms up?
An air-conditioner.
什么东西热机后变冷？--空调
注：warm up：热机；变暖。
Album
Father, showing Sam the family picture album[相片册]: "And that's Mom and me on our wedding day".
Sam: "Is that the day Mom came to work for us?"
父亲给Sam看家庭相片册：这是你妈妈和我在我们的婚礼上。
Sam：是从那天妈妈来我们家开始给我们干活的吗？
Alcoholic
Americans accept that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend[隐君子], a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if he doesn't drive there's something wrong with him.
美国人可以接受酒鬼、瘾君子、打妻子者，甚至记者，但如果他不开车，他一定有什么地方不对劲。
注：把记者和酒鬼、隐君子列在一起记者可能会不太高兴。
I think newspapermen might be better than alcoholics.
我觉着记者可能要比酒鬼好点儿。
Hi, I'm Bill, and I'm an alcoholic. I have not had a drink for three months and two days.
嗨！我叫Bill，是一个酗酒者。我已经有3个月零2天没有沾酒了。
注：形象地表达了酗酒者戒酒时度日如年的感觉。
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
酗酒者是一个你不喜欢的喝得和你一样多的人。
注：意思是：你也是一个酗酒者。
