Yes,Minister. Season 1,episode1?

OPEN GOVERNMENT

1、alderman? n.參議員

2、carefree? adj.無憂無慮的

a happy carefree politican's wife

3、cabinet? n.內(nèi)閣

Annie:Look,if the PM wants you to be in the cabinet ,he'll phone back.

4、poll? n.①投票選舉，計票 ②民意測驗 ③投票數(shù)

5、booth? n.①不受干擾的特定空間，如電話亭、計票間 ②臨時貨攤

Jim:How did you get to the polling booth（投票間）on the right day?

6、drain? n.①下水道，排水管 ②耗竭

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? v.排水，放水

Jim:My whole career is going down the drain（走下坡路） because the PM is unable to reach me on the phone.

7、bloody? adj.①該死的 ②非常的 ③流血的

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??adv.非常，很（加強語氣）

Jim:You answer the bloody thing！

8、affair? n.①事務(wù) ②事件 ③私事

Voiceover:Top tip for The Department of Administrative Affiars（行政部）is Jim Hacker.

9、graveyard? n.墓地

Voiceover:On the other hand,this department's been a bit of a political graveyard recently.

10、present? v.①介紹 ②出現(xiàn) ③贈送 ④提出

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? n.①現(xiàn)在 ②禮物 ③瞄準

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? adj.①現(xiàn)在的 ②出席的

Bernad:Minister,allow me to present Sir Humphrey appleby.

11、opposition? n.①反對，敵對 ③反對黨 ④抵抗

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? adj.①反對的 ②對抗的

※Jim:Opposition's about asking questions.

—Humphrey:And the government's about not answering them.

—Jim:Well,you answered all mine ,anyway.

—Humphrey:I'm glad you thought so,Minister.

※Humphrey:I am the Permanent Undersecretary of the State（常務(wù)次官）known as the Permanent Secretary.

Wolly is your Principal Private Secretary.?

And I too have a Principal Private Secretary.

And he is the Principal Private Secretray to the Permanent Secretary.

Directly responsible to me are 10 Deputy Secretaries,87 Undersecretraies,and 217 Assistant Secretraies.

Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretary are Parliamentary Private Secretaries.

And the PM will be appointing two Parliamentary Undersecretaries and you will appoint your own Parliamentary Private Secretary.

12、droll? adj.①滑稽的 ②幽默的

13、blunt? adj.①鈍的，不鋒利的 ②遲鈍的 ③直言不諱的

Jim:You have to forgive me if I'm a bit blunt but that's the sort of chap（…這種人）I'm…

14、frankly? adv.坦率地說

15、decor? n.裝飾品

Bernard:We can change anything,Minister.The furniture,decor,office routine.Your wish is our command.

16、swivel? n.旋轉(zhuǎn)

Jim:I hate swivel chairs.

17、swathe? v.裹緊，包

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?n.繃帶

18、stuffy? adj.①悶的 ②保守古板的

Jim:Now,frankly this Department has got to cut a great swathe through all this stuffy Whitehall bureaucracy.

19、streamline? v.①精簡 ②使效率更高

20、creaking? adj.嘎吱作響的

streamline this creaking old bureaucratic machine

21、redeploy? v.重新部署

Humphrey:I think you mean “Redeploy them"

22、plank? n.①木板 ②政綱的核心，政策的核心準則

23、manifesto? n.政黨的競選宣言

Jim:Open government,that's what my party believes in, that was the main plank of our manifesto.

24、implement? v.①生效，執(zhí)行 ②為……提供工具

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? n.工具

Humphrey:These are the ways to implement this policy.

※Humphrey:Her Majesty（女皇陛下）does like the business of the government to continue even when there are no politicans around.

—Jim:Bit difficult surely?

—Humphrey:Yes…and no.

25、fetch? vt.①接著，拿來 ②吸引 ③售得

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?vi.抵達

Bernard:I'll just fetch your boxes,Minister.

26、harsh? adj.①刺耳的 ②嚴厲的

Humphrey:It's a harsh thing to say.

27、aerospace? n.航空航天工業(yè)

28、hypothetical? adj.①假設(shè)的 ②愛幻想的

Humphrey:If a hypothetical Minister were to rock the Anglo American boat?

29、grave? n.墳墓

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?adj.嚴重的

30、house-train? v.馴養(yǎng)

Humphrey:Yes,we'll have him house-trained in no time.

31、swallow? v.①吞下 ②承受

32、nonsense? n.廢話

33、dispose? v.①處理 ②傾向于

※Humphrey:He swallowed the whole diary,and I gather he did his boxes like a lamb（天真爛漫的）last weekend.

—Bernard:Yes,yes he did.

—Humphrey:We must head him off this Open Government nonsense.

—Bernard:I thought we were calling this White Paper ”O(jiān)pen Government“.

—Humphrey:Yes,always dispose of the difficult bit in the title.Dose less harm there than in the text.

—Arnold:The less you intend to do about something,the more you have to keeping talking about it.

34、contradiction? n.矛盾

※Arnold:It's a contradiction in terms.You can be open or you can have a government.

35、complicity? n.同謀犯罪

36、dignity? n.尊嚴

※Bernard:But surely the citizens of democracy have a right to konw...

—Humphrey:No,they have a right to be ignorant.Konwledge only means complicity and guilt.Ignorance has a certain dignity.

37、dynamite? n.①炸藥 ②引起轟動的人或事物

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? adj.令人印象深刻的

policital dynamite 政治炸藥

38、import? v.進口，輸入

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? n.進口，輸入

Jim:Imported from American?

39、constituency? n.（選舉國會議員的）選區(qū)

Jim:How am?I to face my constituency party??

40、treasury? n.①國庫，金庫 ②財政部

Humphrey:It's beyond my power,Minister.This can only be cancelled by the Treasury.

41、predecessor? n.①前輩，前任 ②原有的事物，前身

42、traitor? n.叛徒

Weisel:Also it will make your predecessor look like a traitor.

43、unanswerable? adj.①無法回答 ②無可爭辯的

unanswerable reason 無法忽視的原因

44、scandalous? adj.可恥的

Jim:I'll tell them about this scandalous contracts.

45、serve v.①（為……）服務(wù) ②履行

Humphrey:We shall serve your best interests.

46、dole n.救濟，救濟金

queue up for the dole

47、supress v.①壓制，鎮(zhèn)壓 ②禁止發(fā)表 ③抑制

Humphrey:You mean ...supress it?

48、framework n.①框架 ②準則

49、guideline n.指導方針

50、posture n.①姿勢 ②態(tài)度

—Humphrey:You mean that within the framework of the guidelines about open government that you have laid down,you're suggesting we should adopt a more flexible posture.

51、precipitate v.①使……突然加速，加速（壞事的發(fā)生） ②使……突然陷入（某種狀態(tài)）

52、reappraisal?n.重新評估

Bernard:Minister about the press release... There appears to be a development could precipitate a reappraisal of our position.

53、interdepartmental adj.部門間的

54、clearance n.①審核批準 ②消除 ③間隙

Bernard:We forgot the interdepartmental clearance procedure.

55、unaccountably adv.①不能說明地 ②不可解釋地

56、omit v.①省略 ②忽略

57、rescind v.廢止

Humphrey:And I unaccountably omitted to rescind it.

58、lapse n.①小錯，疏忽 ②間隔時間

Humphrey:I hope you forgive this lapse.