共读—— You are a Badass Day 1

Reverend: a title for a priest of the Christian Church （对基督教教士的尊称）牧师大人
Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith, Agape International Spiritual Center 创始人，作者

A bunch of crap or a load of crap = nonsense 也可以说 Crap!

Cheesy: cheap and not of good quality or not sincere

Grouchy: easily annoyed and complaining

Bulldoze: to force someone to do something, although they might not want to

holier-than-thou: characterized by an attitude of moral superiority.
They had quite a critical, holier-than-thou approach.
holier-than-thouism, -ism 后缀，主义

a total cream puff: a small round pastry filled with cream and covered with chocolate sauce

a snore: a thing that is extremely boring

a flare-up: a situation in which someone suddenly has problems because of a disease or illness after not having any problems for a long time

doop de do: a sound made with the mouth that is usually associated with walking;

rickety-ass: stupid, bad

an egomaniacal fathead
egomaniacal: relating to someone who considers themselves to be very important and able to do anything that they want:
a fathead is a stupid person, an idiot.

have the cojones to show up = have the guts to show up, have the courage to show up

live down something: to make people forget that you made a big mistake or did something very embarrassing in the past:

when the shit really hit the fan = hit rock bottom, a very bad situation, you can imagine how bad it is from the literal meaning of these words

Anaïs Nin: 阿内丝·尼恩 出生于法国的美国作家

mull over something: to think carefully about something for a period of time

work someone’s ass off = work extremely hard 我常听到的表达

get someone’s act together: to start to organize yourself so that you do things in an effective way

Lawdy = Lawd 感叹词

take one for the team: willingly undertake an unpleasant task or make a personal sacrifice for the collective benefit of one's friends or colleagues

ease someone into something: if you ease yourself or someone else into a new job etc, you start doing it gradually or help them to start

dip your toe in the self-help pond = begin to do or test (something) cautiously

pull somebody/something in = to attract business, money, people etc

fork over more money = to give money to someone or something, or spend money on something, 也可以用 fork out

janky: very bad in quality or condition

knock it out of the park: to do something extremely well

gnarly: used to describe something extreme, especially something that is very dangerous and exciting

kickass people: very exciting or forceful people

shove food in your face = eat a lot