English Word of a Day

phubbing顧著滑手機忽略某人的動作
phubber低頭族
Stop Phubbing.別再低頭(滑手機)

patronize把人當傻瓜
Don't patronize me.


1. Long before they played star-crossed lovers Dan and Serena, Penn Badgley and Blake Lively were home schooled together as children.
star-crossed
home-schooled

name after
He was named after the tennis ball company Penn.

4. At age 12, before he got into acting, Badgley recorded a pop single (that was never released).

At 32 years old
At age 32
At the age of 32

dye染髮
She dyed my naturally black hair brunette before she even auditioned for the part of Blair.

slate預定選定
Lindsay Lohan was slated to play Blair.

manga version漫畫版
There’s a Manga version of the Gossip Girl book series.

11. Ed Westwick, who plays Chuck, originally auditioned for the role of Nate.

He “looked more like a serial killer than a romantic lead.”

14. You can’t actually sit on the steps of the Met.

15. Penn Badgley was about to quit acting when he got the role of Dan. He turned it down twice before he was convinced to take it.

model做……的模型
He modeled British accent on the character.

Bel Air是洛杉矶一个颇有名的高尚社区。很多影视作品也有提到，比如Legally Blonde(律政俏佳人）里面那个家境优渥的女主角，在演讲的时候就介绍自己来自Bel Air


十二星座
白羊座　Aries
金牛座　Taurus
雙子座　Gemini
巨蟹座　Cancer
獅子座　Leo
處女座　Virgo
天秤座　Libra
天蠍座　Scorpio
射手座　Sagittarius
魔羯座　Capricorn
水瓶座　Aquarius
雙魚座　Pisces

18. In Season 2, Serena is shown to have a Myspace profile, where she posts photos of her trip to Buenos Aires. ( Her user name is ServdW.)

19. The exterior shots of the Humphrey loft are shot in DUMBO, but the pilot episodes mentions that they live in Williamsburg.

20. The Humphrey’s address, which is given as 455 Water Street, is actually the address of a park in lower Manhattan.

21. At the beginning of the show, Serena and Chuck both live at 455 Madison Ave. (aka The Palace Hotel).

22. After they left the palace, the van der Woodsen’s moved to the Milan Condominium building at 300 E. 55th Street, which is a real building.

23. A Three-bedroom penthouse at the Milan Condominiums is listed for $6.8 million.

24. After the New York Magazine Reality Index (a recap that rated the accuracy of NYC locations and character behavior) pointed out the DUMBO/Williamsburg confusion, the producers responded that after the pilot, the Humphrey’s simply say they live in Brooklyn.

25. Though the Humphrey children are considered less popular and wealthy since they are from “Brooklyn,” the average price for real estate per square foot on the Upper East Side and DUMBO are both around $1,400.

26. Many of the cast, crew, and writers read the Reality Index religiously, and things like Serena’s notorious Cleavage Rhombus kept reappearing in the show.

costume designers劇組的服裝設計師
 modeled Blair’s look after Audrey Hepburn and Serena’s after Sienna Miller and Kate Moss.

a spin-off show有用的副產品 (＝spinoff)
There was a rumor that Jenny was going to have a spin-off show when she went to boarding school.

pursue her music career

nemesis正當的報應,給以報應者,復仇者,必然使計畫失敗的人,無可避免的後果

33. Cecily von Zeigler liked all the silver screen adaptations of her characters except Vanessa. In the book she is bald and wears all black.

34. Producers spent anywhere from $10,000 to $60,000 per day for filming locations in NYC.


35. It was one of the first show whose DVR and iTunes numbers were higher than actual viewing numbers.

mind-blowingly inappropriate有害心靈的
36. When the show was criticized by the Parent Television Council for being “Mind-blowingly inappropriate” and “Every parent’s nightmare,” they used those phrases in their promotional posters.

38. The failed pilot for a spin off of Lily and her sister, which starred Brittany Snow as a younger Lily, would have also contained younger versions of the O.C. characters ( which was also produced by Savage and Schwartz), linking the two worlds.

offscreen adv. 螢幕下,在私生活中
Offscreen, the worlds are linked: Leighton Meester is married to Adam Brody, who played Seth Cohen, in real life.

a mini-series n.迷你影集
webisode n.網路劇,網路影集
There was a mini-series of webisodes starring Szadkowski, called “Chasing Dorota,” about Dorota and her friendship with Nate’s British housekeeper Jane and Chuck’s Russian housekeeper Larussa.

42. The Empire Hotel that Chuck owned is a real hotel.
swarm vt.一窩蜂衝進
43. After fans swarmed the hotel, the bar at the Empire started serving Gossip Girl-themed cocktails, including an “XOXO” cocktail with secret ingredients that they’ll never tell.


44. Costume Designer Eric Daman previously won an Emmy for his costume design on Sex and the City.

high-end designer brands高級設計品牌
45. Since most fans couldn’t afford to buy the high-end designer brands that the characters wore, Daman teamed up with Charlotte Russe to create a Gossip Girl-inspired line.

46. Blake Lively was fitted for Serena’s wedding dress the day after her actual wedding to Ryan Reynolds.

showcase 宣傳
47. Jan. 26 is officially “Gossip Girl Day” in New York, declared by then-mayor Michael Bloomberg who visited the set and praised how it showcased the city.

48. William Baldwin, who played Serena’s dad William, avoided meeting Lively until filming so they could easily portray a strained relationship.

49. A fan once snuck onto the set at the Waldorf-Astoria and was mistaken for an extra.
50. The location that was used for Constance Billard is actually The Museum of the City of New York.

51. In the final episode, it’s revealed that Jenny and Blair finally mended their friendship: Jenny carries a “J by Waldorf” bag, which Stephanie Savage revealed meant that she had her own line with Blair’s company.

52. Dan was almost revealed to be Gossip Girl in the pilot episode; in a test screening, audiences assumed that Dan was GG because of a shot where he’s typing as the voiceover happens, so they edited the scene.

shoot拍攝
53. Penn Badgley didn’t know that Dan was Gossip Girl until right before they shot that scene.

They would end up together.