【保姆级美剧动画片学英语】怪诞小镇第一季 | 附有单词、地道表达注释 EP05.

convenience store

a small local shop that sells food, newspapers, etc. and has long opening hours便利店（常为 24 小时营业）

get ahold of

If you get ahold of someone or something, you manage to contact, find, or get them. 联系到；找到；得到

rumor

=rumour

[countable, uncountable]

a piece of information, or a story, that people talk about, but that may not be true谣言；传闻

dare somebody to do something

激某人做某事；问某人有没有胆量做某事

tempt the fates

tempt fate/providence

to do something too confidently in a way that might mean that your good luck will come to an end玩命；冒险；鲁莽

what if

used to ask what you should do or what the result will be if something happens, especially something unpleasant 如果…怎么办？ 如果…将会怎样？

take it down a notch

(transitive, idiomatic, of a thing) To cause the quantity, degree, or intensity of something to be decreased.

calm down high spirits or decrease effort in something 冷静一点，收敛点