Coach: What's up?

Santiago: What's up? I, I just saw the reserve list. I'm not on the team. I didn't even make the bench. I don't get it. I play where you tell me to play. I play how you tell me to play.

Coach: I didn't drop you, son. You're not at my disposal.

Santiago: What are you talking about?

Coach: You're playing with that lot. In London on Saturday.

Gavin: Santiago. What are you waiting for? Come on.

Man: OK, guys. Let's get to work. Come on.

Commentator: Newcastle scraped through with a win over Chelsea, but it won't be enough in itself. Liverpool are breathing down their necks. And to make it worse, there is a makeshift look to the Newcastle Unitedline-up today with all their injury problems, and one of their substitutes, Santiago Munez, is a completely unknown quantity. Yes. He is. Apparently he was discovered playing in Los Angeles by Glen Foy, the ex-Newcastle midfielder. He's been turning some heads with his performances in the reserves, but this is a much, much higher level. I just wonder how he will cope if he does get the nod at some point today.

妙語佳句，活學活用

1. Bench

在體育運動中，bench 指“The place where the players on a team sit when not participating in a game”，也可以指“替補運動員”，所以“讓某人做替補”就可以說成 keep sb. on the bench。 例如：However, Ecuador preserved their strength for the knockout stage, keeping their two star strikers Agustin Delgado and Carlos Tenorio on the bench.

2. At someone's disposal

At someone's disposal 這里的意思“歸某人使用，供某人調遣”，這個片語常和put 連用，例如：They put their computer at our disposal for our entire stay.

3. Scrape through

這個片語的意思是“to only just avoid failing 勉強通過/成功”，例如：He scraped through his exams.

4. Breathe down someone's neck

這個片語有兩個常用的意思，一個是“Pursue someone closely; pose a threat to one對某人緊追不放，威脅某人”，例如：The immigration authorities were breathing down his neck.

另一個意思是“Watch or supervise someone very closely嚴密監視某人（常指令人惱恨地）”，例如：The boss is always breathing down our necks.

5. Line-up

Line-up 指的是“陣容，陣式”，在各類比賽中，我們常聽到“首發陣容”這個詞，英文里就是“starting lineup”，例如：He was back in the starting lineup after being benched at the start of Monday's game for oversleeping and missing a shootaround. 而在電影拍攝中的全明星陣容則為“all-star lineup”。

6. Turn one's head

這個片語的意思是“Cause to become infatuated 把某人變得昏頭昏腦/入迷”，例如：The new teacher turned all the girls' heads.

在這個片段中，turn some heads 是指Santiago 的球技和在場上的表現贏得了一些認可和信任。

7. Get the nod

“Receive approval or assent得到認可，得到認同”的意思，例如：The contestant got the nod from the judges.