纽约客笔记
1 a couple of month earlier 几个月前
2 Glauber had been an anthropology minor in college 辅修人类学
3 female and male task attribution 男女分工
The Mehinakus are so strict about female and male task attribution that a bachelor would rather go hungry than cook for himself.
4 if I remember it right 如果我没记错的话
5 They value fear more than we do courage, or anything else, really.
6 every year I would hear of a student having a meltdown in some hallway during registration week, trying to find it 找到瘫软；找到崩溃
hear of sb doing sth
7 “I know. It was just a way to introduce the fact that my last dog took forever to die and maybe fish for a little sympathy.”
a. fish for sth :to try to get sth, or to find out sth, although you are pretending not to: to fish for compliments / information b. fish sth/sb<->out (of sth) to take or pull sth/sb out of a place: She fished a piece of paper out of the pile on her desk. ◆ They fished a dead body out of the river.
8 Delphine is married with two kids, so we never talk about her life over lunch.
她结了婚，有两个孩子。 She is married with two kids.
9 hard-on 勃起 I’d had an erotic dream about Glauber a few nights before (telescopic
hard-on,lavender fields) and had made the mistake of telling Delphine about it.
10 Allan turned in our direction.朝我们这边转身/看过来？
11 I'm not a math person. 我数学不太好。
12 make-believe 过家家
imagining that sth is real, or that you are sb else, for example in a child's game: 'Let's play make-believe,' said Sam.
13 “Is there something on my tongue?” I said, and stuck it out.
“Dude, put that back in,” Delphine said. “We’re in public.”
14 Exceptional people died of cancer and heart attacks;it was the nobodies who suffered stupid and puzzling demises, to make up for the lack of surprises in their lives.
15 mull sth<->over to spend time thinking carefully about a plan or proposal: I need some time to mull it over before making a decision.
“Did that thought pop into your head at a moment when, I don’t know,you were mulling over grand gestures to win Glauber back?”
16 As he was offering to give Helena the name of the Web site, his phone started ringing and he
apologized profusely for forgetting to turn the sound off.
17 “He seemed to be quite taken with you,” Ilse resumed. “Glauber. I was surprised to learn you’d broken up.”
18 “This is Bernard Allan, by the way.” I don’t think I’d ever known his first name.
the name or names that were given to you when you were born, that come before your family name: His first name is Tom and his surname is Green. ◆ Please give all your first names. ◆ (BrE) to be on first-name terms with sb (= to call them by their first name as a sign of a friendly informal relationship)
19 The disappointment made me actively hate poor Allan.
