Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) interview
/I remember watching Hugh Laurie on television throughout my childhood. My brother and I used to howl with laughter at the hilarious characters he played in Jeeves and Wooster and Black Adder. It was only last year, that I discovered that he was in a very popular American TV series called 'House.' When I mentioned it to my boyfriend, who is Italian,he was surprised that I hadn't heard of and said that h'd really enjoyed it . As Kirsty Young says in this interview, House was a massive thing all over the world. Below I have listed some of the vocabulary that Kirsty Young (the interviewer) and Hugh Laurie use in the interview. I hope that you find it helpful. To listen to the interview - just click on the link below:
- Straightforward
Easy
- Marooning
To leave someone somewhere
- championship
competition
- A rower
Somebody who rows
- Scupered
To be ruined
- A bout
A period of time
- Gandular fever
An illness that causes tiredness
- His stellar reputation
Extremely good reputation
- Humiliation
A feeling of being unhappy or ashamed
- Across the pond
Across the Atlantic
- Blessed
Very lucky or grateful
- I hear the beating of the wings
To be aware that time is passing
- Brush by me
Passing very close to you
- Destabilising
To create a feel of instability
- Densely
Very compact
- Intricate
Very complicated/detailed
- Quite rightly
Correctly
- Such a scale
A huge amount/size
- Black Adder
A 1980s British sitcom
- Jeeves & Wooster
An early 1990s British comedy
- Flitting across your face
Passing quickly across your face
- Grumpy
In a bad mood
- A spring in my step
To be feeling happy and confident
- A state of bliss
To be very happy
- Tire
To get tired of something
- Auditioned
An 'interview' for a play/film
- The script
The written text of a play/film
- Notion
An idea
- Up and till that point
Until that time
- Jaw lines
The jaw bones
- jagged
Something with a lot rough pointed parts
- Tortured
Very upset or worried
- A tin ear
Not hearing the difference between sounds
- Cragginess
Attractively rugged and rough textured
- Colluded
To work secretly with someone
- Balding
To be losing hair (going bald)
- What a rod for my own back
Something that causes problems
- Stuff
Matter
- Alleyway
A narrow passageway between buildings
- Let’s look back …
Let's discuss something in the past
- Modest
Not talking about what hey have achieved
- Self-effacing
Not claiming attention
- The oars
A pole with a flat blade, used when rowing
- A sock drawer
A drawer in a chest of drawers for socks
- Been through a lot
To have experienced difficulties
- Baubles
Decorations for a Christmas tree
- Gloomy
Unhappy/ seeing things negitively
- Navigate
To find your way around
- Sulk
To be silent or bad tempered
- Didn’t apply myself
I didn't try hard
- Frivolous
Silly - not serious or sensible
- Going without
Not having something/ things
- Privilege
A special right or advantage
- Excel
To do well
- Crust of bread
The hard, brown outer part of a loaf
- Presbyterian ethic
Relating to ideas of the Christian Church
- Flat (mood)
A bit down, depressed
- Psychologist
An expert in the study of people's minds
- Agitate
To shake things up
- A bout of depression
A period of time when you feel depressed
- Bleak
Without any hope or happiness
- Haunting
Spooky
- A preacher
Job to give religious speeches
- Clapping
To hit you hands together
- Thrilled
Very happy
- Goose bumps
Small lumps on the skin
- Notes
From the voice or instrument
- Transporting
Takes you somewhere
- Firm friends
Very good friends
- There and then
At that very moment
- Cross
Angry
- Inaugural
The first of a series
- Hunky
A man who is physical strong and attractive
- A moron
Someone who behaves stupidly
- Exploited
To use a situation so that you benefit from it
- Wrung
To twist fabric so that you remove liquid
- Idiocy
Behaving in an idiotic way
- Flop out
Appear easily
- Landing
Catching (fish)
- Gleaming
Shiny and clean
- Provoke
Cause a reaction
- By the by
By the way
- Grim
Not very enjoyable
- Tentative
Not confident
- Inhibits
Stops you from doing things
- Odd
Strange
- A big cheese
An important person
- The berk
A stupid person
- Harder to buy it
Harder to believe it
- Means
The money/income that someone has
- Heartache
Great sadness/ worry
- Exponential
Increasing or growing very fast
- Mortifying
Extremely embarrassing
- Nod
To move your head
- Mocking
Making fun of
- Sketches
Short acts
- Decanter
A special glass bottle for alcohol
- Self-effacing
To not want to talk about yourself
- Fascinated
Very interested in ...
- Collaboration
To work with someone or other people
- Take pride in ..
Happiness when someone does well
- Delving into
Looking into something thoroughly
- Throwing knives
Knives that you throw
- Uncanny
Strange and mysterious
- Knock the pip out of …
Hit the centre