Invincible
شکست ناپذیر
Clip Script: The cable news channels and your politicians have you Americans deluded.
How so, Kambiz?
Well, they make you believe you’re a warrior nation with an invincible army. I mean, your machinery is tough, but this country has grown soft.
Further example: Young athletes think of themselves as invincible.
Jabber
تند تند حرف زدن، بلغور کردن
Clip Script: you’re not even wearing a vest!
no, no… where’s the weights? No, no, no, we’re 90% water, right? So I combine upper and lower inversion with a hyper infusion, yeah? Now, you know this better than I do. But, but the breakthrough, man, the, the breakthrough, ahh, Ahh, man, I’m jabbering. The pro…
Further example: The tourists were jabbering away on the bus.
Janitor
سرایدار
Clip Script: This was found a couple of months later by a janitor in RCC storage.
Sherwood got a handwriting match off wood?
Further example: He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries.
Jerk
نادان، احمق
Clip Scrip: Come on, old girl. We’re out of here, you’re coming with me. All these jerks wind me up in a tin can. Come on, girl come on.
Further example: I swore at him for being such a jerk.
Jet lag
خستگی پرواز
Clip Script: I got a new bikini. And it turns out, I have unlimited minibar access. You know what that means?
Jet lag?
You, me … macadamia nuts.
That was cute. You know who I was talking to at the party who was really inspiring… was Tara’s friend.
Brian.
Brian. Unbelievable. He’s a teacher, you know that?
He’s a substitute teacher, isn’t he?
Yeah. He was talking about the budget cuts that are happening now. There’s no money for anything. There’s no music classes, there’s no arts classes. They’re volunteering their time to do all of this after school. They’re educating our kids, you know?
Further example: I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.
Jog
به یاد آوردن، دست یافتن، به خاطر آوردن
Clip Script: About what?
About Zodiac.
It’s not new.
I’ve been thinking that if you put all the information together, maybe you could jog something loose. And then I was thinking that nobody knows the case better than you.
Yeah.
Further example: Perhaps this photo will help to jog your memory.
Junkyard
اوراق فروشی، قراضه فروشی
Clip Script: We’re canvassing the area. We’ve gone to repair shops and junkyards. We’re doing everything we possibly can. You have to understand, Mr. Learner, that these things take time.
Further example: There is a junkyard near my house.
Jurisdictional
قضایی
Clip Script: Listen, we’re gonna need your scene Photos.
Can’t help you.
Ken, I don’t want to get into a jurisdictional thing here.
No, no, no, no, no. We didn’t have a crime scene. The ranger that found the kids literally swept everything into a picnic blanket. All we have are the Wing Walker prints.
The what?
Further example: I am frustrated with this long jurisdictional process.
Keep sb posted
کسی را در جریان گذاشتن
Clip Script: Yeah?
Any ideas?
I’m working on it.
Keep me posted.
Yeah.
Further example: I’ll keep you posted on his progress.
Kin
خویشاوند
Clip Script: Um, I was her next of kin.
What do you mean?
Further example: We’ll have to notify the next of kin of his death.
Knockout
جذاب
Clip Script: you were a bloody knockout.
Oh, it’s odd, isn’t it, thinking of us back then? I wasn’t even 20.
Further example: He was staring at her, because he saw her as a true knockout.
Latch onto
به کسی چسبیدن، با کسی پلکیدن
Clip Script: And he doesn’t have much energy these days.
He seems fine to me.
Well, he isn’t. I don’t want you latch onto this boy.
He’s my friend.
There must other kids at school that you could play with.
Further example: He latched onto Sandy at the party and wouldn’t go away.
Lenient
با مدارا، آسان گیر
Clip Script: That’s a chat room of people who help to track hit-and-run offenders, drunk drivers, lenient judges, They’re very helpful. Here, let me show you this.
Further example: School examiners say that marking has become more lenient in recent years.
Like a bug in a rug
راحت راحت
Clip Script: Microscopic anomaly.
Hold on. Does Brunel know?
Just trust on this one, okay?
Are you cozy in there?
Like a bug in a rug.
Further example: I felt extremely comfortable in that sofa, like a bug in rug.
Little Miss Chatty Cathy
خانم کوچولو وراج
Clip Script: That is exactly what I need. I need something like that. I don’t listen. I never have. My mom used to call me Little Miss Chatty Cathy because I just ramble. I am a rambler. I am rambling now. I’m sorry.
Silence is a wonderful spiritual practice… but if Corella could speak, she’d tell you it’s more challenging than it looks. Wait till you’ve been here for a while.
Okay.
Further example: My mother used to call me Little Miss Chatty Cathy.
Loophole
راه گریز
Clip Script: Honey, I’m looking up state law and there seem in be so many legal loopholes. I don’t know how one makes sense of this.
Further example: He pays very little tax because of some loophole in income tax legislation.
Lose count
حساب چیزی را از دست دادن
Clip Script: Kim. A six-month commute home in a floating coffin. With Kim. Is that ten? I’ve lose count already.
It’s not a coffin, Vince. But that’s an interesting choice of words Ok.
Further example: There have been so many accidents here, the police have lost count.
Lucrative
سودآور
Clip Script: I know it’s a risk, but if our company doesn’t take a chance on something like this, then who will? I mean, I’m willing to take a fire on something that could change the world.
Not to mention, be incredibly lucrative.
Further example: He inherited a lucrative business from his father.
Lumber
آهسته حرکت کردن
Clip script: No, but at the time they hadn’t changed it.
This guy was white, Right, not in a hurry. Kind of lumbering along like…
Lumbering? What do you mean. “lumbering“?
shuffling.
Stocky? Had a crew cut?
Yeah, that’s all correct.
Further example: They lumbered along.