respect: 尊重

realize: 了解

cancer: 癌症

emphysema: 肺气肿

bottom line:

"bottom line"原义指财务帐目表上最下面的一行或那一行上写的表示盈亏的数目。英文定义是"the final line on a company's accounting statement that shows profit or loss that the company makes at the end of a given period of time after everything has been calculated."

例如：1.The bottom line for 2001 was pre-tax profit of ￡ 5 million （2001年公司财务状况是税前利润500万英镑。）

对公司来说，盈亏是大事，所以"bottom line"的第二个定义是"the deciding or crucial factor; the essential point in a discussion or an argument; the most important thing that one must consider or accept; the most important factor that must be accepted, however reluctantly or even you may not like it"这里强调两点：一是重要，关键，二是无法回避，必须考虑或接受。

例如：2. The bottom line is that we have to increase our sales or take a cut in pay. （关键问题是我们必须增加销售额，否则就得减工资。）

3."If you don't make a profit, you go out of business: that is the bottom line."（如果不盈利，你就会破产，这是必须面对的现实。）

此外，"bottom line"还常表示"最起码的条件""可接受的最低价格"等，其第三个定义是"the lowest price or the lowest acceptable amount of money regarded as acceptable in a business deal."例如：6. A: What's your bottom line for selling the car? B: I can go down to ￡450.（甲：这辆车底价是多少？乙：最低450英镑。）

例句4: "I hate to tell you this, but if we don't get more customers the next three months, the bottom line is that we'll go out of business."
他说：“我很不愿意告诉你。但是，要是我们在今后三个月里不能招揽更多的顾客的话，归根结蒂的问题是我们必然会倒闭的。”

我们下面要举的例子还是和这个饭馆的经营有联系的。在老板说了以上的话半年后，他们的生意已经兴旺得多了。他对他的合夥人说：

例句5: "Our new cook from Sichuan is bringing in a lot more people. And the bottom line is that last month we made a profit of fifteen thousand dollars."
他说:“我们那个从四川来的新厨师吸引了不少顾客。其结果是上个月我们赚了一万五千美元。”

美国人经常问下面这个问题：What's the bottom line? 这就是说，在对一个问题讨论结束后，其结果到底是什么，这也是有关的人所必须了解的内容。

buddy: 伙伴,好朋友

(every) now and then: 时而，不时
He went to see his grandmother every now and then.
他时不时的去看看他的祖母。

stub (out): 捻灭(香烟)
Please stub out your cigarette.
请把烟灭了。

wander up: 有点犯迷糊，纳闷
wander v. 徘徊，漫步，迷路
He likes to wander over the countryside.
他喜欢在乡间漫步。

if only: 要是…多好
If only I would have a good chance to study German.
但愿我将能得到一个学习德语的机会。

bubious: 怀疑的,可疑的