标题: Wedding: Julie Liu and Joshua DeFrain [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-2-2011 10:58 标题: Wedding: Julie Liu and Joshua DeFrain 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Ellen McCarthy and Erin Williams, On Love: ‘I Could See Our Lives Working Together.’ Washington Post, Sept 10, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/weddings/on-love-i-could-see-our-lives-working-together/2011/08/26/gIQAwmwrFK_story.html
(In his first date in 2008 with Taiwanese American Julie Liu, then 27, "the conversation seemed to revolve around fraternity and sorority life and, soon, [Joshua] DeFrain admitted he was 23")
Note:
(a) The bar's name Hangge Uppe is just a fancy name for "hang up."
(b) The report mentioned "clocking him in the face."
clock (vt): "Slang . to strike sharply or heavily: <Somebody clocked him on the face.>"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clock
Naturally Mr DeFrain's dancing partner was inadvertent.
(c) Following the quotation above, the report stated her reaction: "Liu was thrown."
throw (vt): "to get the better of : OVERCOME <the problem didn't throw her>"
This and (e) are both from www.m-w.com.
(d) DePaul University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_University
(private; at Chicago; Founded by the Vincentians [a branch of Catholic church] in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul [1581-1660; French])
It is a so-so university.
(e) blast (n): "an enjoyably exciting experience, occasion, or event <I had a blast>; especially : PARTY"Wedding Announcement