charge the battery 充电
Dear John letter 绝情信
neuro-transmitter 神经递质
be redundant with 与...重复
My back hurts from sitting./Sitting is making my back hurt. 坐得我腰疼
That/It figures. 我就知道。表示某件事情的发生是很自然，预料中的，尤指不好的事(used to say that something that happens is expected or typical, especially something bad)
【例句：The boss gave us another project with an impossible deadline. Figures. It's like he enojys making things harder for us. 老板又给了我们一个截止时间很离谱的项目，我就知道，他好像特别喜欢让我们不好过。/They didn't send the confirmation email. It figure. They never do.他们没发确认邮件。我猜也是，他们从来不发的。】
You really are a piece of work.你真不简单。
pill （毛衣）起球
【例句：I love this sweater, but it's started to pill after just a few washes. 我很喜欢这件毛衣，但洗了几次就开始起球了。】
competing interest 利益冲突
at no time 绝不
the colour runs （衣服）跑色（If colour runs, it spreads from one piece of clothing or one area of cloth to another when the clothes are wet）
【例句：When I washed that red dress, the colour ran and made all my whites pink.我洗那件红裙子时它掉色了，把我所有白色衣服都染成了粉红的。/You should wash this blue T-shirt separately the first few times in case the colour runs.这件蓝色T恤前几次应该和别的衣服分开洗，以防掉色。/I‘ve washed these pants three times and the colour is still running.这条裤子我已经洗过三次了，还是会掉色。】
stain/discolour 染色
【例句：It stained all the lighter clothes. /It discoloured all the lighter clothes. 】
All right, I'll talk in code. 好，我用暗号说。
code 暗号
【例句：They used elaborate secret codes, such as the names of trees stood for letters. 他们使用了复杂的暗号，比如用树的名称代表字母。】
dub bomb 哑弹，一部炒作得很厉害的影片可能遭遇票房惨败（烂尾）
【例句：A much-hyped movie may end up as a box office dud.】
dud property 烂尾（房产，投资，股票）
deflating ballon 泄了气的气球
【例句：The once-promising plot descended into an anticlimatic end, like a deflating balloon.】