Accents, word choices, and slang are all a result of knowing the character.
口音，用词和俚语都来自对人物的深层理解。
Slang A distinctive emotional aura or atmosphere regarded as being instinctively sensed or experienced. Often used in the plural.
一种独特的情绪上的气氛或者环境，被认为能被直觉感觉到的。经常用在复数中。
But then I found in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang a very similar entry supposedly dating from the 1980s in Britain.
不过后来，我在《布隆·贝里当代俚语词典》里看到一个非常类似的条目，据推测出自1980年代的英国。
A few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.
这些俚语中的一些被证明是十分有用的，因而逐渐进入了上流社会。
He tends to use a lot of slang expressions that I've never heard before.
他往往用许多我以前从未听说过的俚语。
'Old man' is a slang term for 'father'.
oldman为俚语，指父亲。
Anglophobe-Americans will refuse to use a slang phrase if they know it to be of British origin.
反英的美国人要是知道这个俚语来源于英国，那么他们就不会使用了。
LAST week, if you wanted to use the latest slang to tell a friend he was cool, you could have called him "Obama," as in: "Dude, you're rocking the new Pre phone?"
发自上周，如果你想用最新的俚语告诉你的朋友他很酷，你不妨叫他奥巴马，就像这样：嘿，你拿的是新上市的手机吗？
A formal dictionary will only take you so far-and will usually stop short when you need the definition of a catchphrase, buzzword, idiom, slang word, or acronym.
一本正式的词典仅此而已，当你需要一条标语，行话，成语，俚语词或者头文字的定义的时候，通常都点到即止。
Indeed, it is accepted wisdom among linguists that once a word actually shows up in a slang dictionary, it effectively ceases to be slang.
的确，我们也从语言学家哪里了解到，当一个词汇确定地出现在俚语词典里了，它也不再是俚语了。
It was a perfectly composed bit of slang, a minor triumph of Yankee ingenuity.
有些像是绝妙的俚语，也是北方佬近乎天才般的胜利。
There is no question among any of the etymological dictionaries as to the fact that snafu comes from a military slang.
不管是哪部词典，关于这个词来源于军中俚语的说法都没有疑问。
Even today, "a Sherman" is well-understood slang for a firm refusal.
直至今天，“谢尔曼”这个词在俚语中还是表示坚定拒绝。
Michael Adams, author of Slang: The People's Poetry, says, "pop culture cuts through the slang lexicon in a big way"—providing reassuring reminders of life away from the chaos.
俚语：人民的诗"一书的作者，迈克尔-亚当斯说：“流行文化充分利用了俚语，为炮火中的士兵提供了让人安心的暗示，使他们暂时 逃避现实 的生活 ，精神上远离战场的混乱。"
Meant as an abbreviation for "oll correct," a popular slang misspelling of "all correct" at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.
OK表示的是一个常用俚语词“allcorrect”(完全正确)的错误拼写“oll correct”的缩写，它逐渐进入美国人的日常对话中。
When someone USES a slang word or phrase (especially online) you don't recognize, proceed directly to the Urban Dictionary.
当某人用了一个你不认识的俚语词或短语(尤其是在线时)时，直接去urbanDictionary。
The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes."
《牛津英语大词典》对这个词是如此解释的：“couch potato”起源于美国俚语，代指那些“消极度过闲暇时光或终日无所事事的人，他们通常看电视或影碟打发时间”。
The word Diski is a township slang for soccer and may also describe the local style of football which focuses on dribbling and other tricks.
Diski这个词是南非民间对足球的一种俚语说法，同时也体现了当地足球注重运球和其它技法的风格。
The phrase "chick lit" appeared in print as early as 1988 as college slang for a course titled "female literary tradition."
Chicklit这个表达在书面中的使用最初见于1988年，当时是大学里对《女性文学传统》这一课程的俚语表达。
"Winging it" is a popular slang phrase in English basically meaning, making it up as you go.
“winging it”是英语中一句流行的俚语。
Whereas I think Urbandictionary is an excellent source for figuring out slang usage, a word like glossary allows the weaknesses of a site like Urbandictionary to show.
个人认为对于理清俚语用途方面来说，urbandictionary可谓是相当不错的一个参考源头，然而例如“glossary”这一词汇却也让我们看到这一词典的缺点所在。
"Niubility" was the pinyin of Niubi (a slang to say excellent) plus a suffix to make it a noun.
“Niubility ”(牛b)就是拼音Niubi(俚语，表示“极好的”)加上一个可成为名词的后缀。
Junk food is a slang word for foods with limited.
垃圾食品是食品俚语和有限的。
To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
为了适应这种斗争的需要，穷人便发明了一种战斗的语言，这便是黑话。
Rendering the slang of American culture into Chinese is a special challenge.
将美国文化中的俚语翻译成中文是一项挑战。
"Even today," a Sherman "is well-understood slang for a firm refusal."
直至今天，“谢尔曼”这个词在俚语中还是表示坚定拒绝。
"Even today," a Sherman "is well-understood slang for a firm refusal."
直至今天，“谢尔曼”这个词在俚语中还是表示坚定拒绝。
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