Yes,Minister. Season 1,episode1 NOTE

Yes,Minister. Season 1,episode1 

OPEN GOVERNMENT

1、alderman  n.参议员

2、carefree  adj.无忧无虑的

a happy carefree politican's wife

3、cabinet  n.内阁

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

4、poll  n.①投票选举，计票 ②民意测验 ③投票数

5、booth  n.①不受干扰的特定空间，如电话亭、计票间 ②临时货摊

Jim:How did you get to the polling booth（投票间）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该死的 ②非常的 ③流血的

                  adv.非常，很（加强语气）

Jim:You answer the bloody thing！

8、affair  n.①事务 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介绍 ②出现 ③赠送 ④提出

                      n.①现在 ②礼物 ③瞄准

                      adj.①现在的 ②出席的

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

11、opposition  n.①反对，敌对 ③反对党 ④抵抗

                          adj.①反对的 ②对抗的

※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（常务次官）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钝的，不锋利的 ②迟钝的 ③直言不讳的

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

14、frankly  adv.坦率地说

15、decor  n.装饰品

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

16、swivel  n.旋转

Jim:I hate swivel chairs.

17、swathe  v.裹紧，包

                     n.绷带

18、stuffy  adj.①闷的 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精简 ②使效率更高

20、creaking  adj.嘎吱作响的

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政纲的核心，政策的核心准则

23、manifesto  n.政党的竞选宣言

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

24、implement  v.①生效，执行 ②为……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接着，拿来 ②吸引 ③售得

                 vi.抵达

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

26、harsh  adj.①刺耳的 ②严厉的

Humphrey:It's a harsh thing to say.

27、aerospace  n.航空航天工业

28、hypothetical  adj.①假设的 ②爱幻想的

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

29、grave  n.坟墓

                   adj.严重的

30、house-train  v.驯养

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

31、swallow  v.①吞下 ②承受

32、nonsense  n.废话

33、dispose  v.①处理 ②倾向于

※Humphrey:He swallowed the whole diary,and I gather he did his boxes like a lamb（天真烂漫的）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 ”Open 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.同谋犯罪

36、dignity  n.尊严

※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炸药 ②引起轰动的人或事物

                        adj.令人印象深刻的

policital dynamite 政治炸药

38、import  v.进口，输入

                    n.进口，输入

Jim:Imported from American?

39、constituency  n.（选举国会议员的）选区

Jim:How am I to face my constituency party? 

40、treasury  n.①国库，金库 ②财政部

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

41、predecessor  n.①前辈，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无法回答 ②无可争辩的

unanswerable reason 无法忽视的原因

44、scandalous  adj.可耻的

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

45、serve v.①（为……）服务 ②履行

Humphrey:We shall serve your best interests.

46、dole n.救济，救济金

queue up for the dole

47、supress v.①压制，镇压 ②禁止发表 ③抑制

Humphrey:You mean ...supress it?

48、framework n.①框架 ②准则

49、guideline n.指导方针

50、posture n.①姿势 ②态度

—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（坏事的发生） ②使……突然陷入（某种状态）

52、reappraisal n.重新评估

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

53、interdepartmental adj.部门间的

54、clearance n.①审核批准 ②消除 ③间隙

Bernard:We forgot the interdepartmental clearance procedure.

55、unaccountably adv.①不能说明地 ②不可解释地

56、omit v.①省略 ②忽略

57、rescind v.废止

Humphrey:And I unaccountably omitted to rescind it.

58、lapse n.①小错，疏忽 ②间隔时间

Humphrey:I hope you forgive this lapse.