「中英文」元宇宙之雪崩（1）(35)

原句：Oppressive silence—his eardrums uncringe -the window is buzzing with the cry of the smoke alarm.
□ digitize [ddtaz] vt. [计] 数字化；
□ citation [saten] n. 引文，引语；传唤，传票；表彰，嘉奖状；引用，引证；
原句：You can look at the three-ring binder from CosaNostra Pizza University, cross-reference the citation for window, chute, dispatcher"s, and it will give you all the procedures for that window-and it should never be opened.
□ rearview [rvju] n. 后视镜，背视图；后视的；
□ bulldoze [bldz] vt. 强迫；恫吓；用推土机清除；
原句：Have to bulldoze lots of neighborhoods to do it, but those seventies and eighties developments exist to be bulldozed, right? No sidewalks, no schools, no nothing.
□ videotape [vditep] n. 录像带；vt. 将……录到录像带上；
原句：Because he knows that all of this is going onto videotape.
□ homeowner [hmn(r)] n. 私房屋主；自己拥有住房者；
□ meaningless [minls] adj. 无意义的；无目的的；
原句：Other people—store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America-other people just rely on plain old competition.