1. in our eyes:在某人的眼中
例句:Such acts lowered him in our eyes.
這種行為降低了他在我們心目中的地位。
2. in fact:事實上
例句:In fact it was quite as well that she should not know.
事實上,她確實還是不知道為妙。
3. little short of :簡直是,近于,幾乎是
例句:It would be little short of a miracle if she recovered.
如果她能夠痊愈康復,那差不多是奇跡了。
4. a bloody affair for sb:對于某人來說是殘忍的事情
例句:It is a bloody affair for little Mary that her parents got divorced.
5. after all:畢竟,終究
例句:I'll have to go to my aunt's funeral she was my own flesh and blood after all.
我得參加我姑姑的葬禮--她是我的親人哪。
6. go to the scaffold:上斷頭臺;被處死刑;上絞刑臺
例句:She went to the scaffold when she was 19.
她19歲時就被判處死刑,送上斷頭臺。
7. in one’s mind:在某人的腦海中
例句:Her image was fixed in his mind.
她的形象深深印在他的腦海里。
8. at least:至少
例句:She's completely homeless at least I have my parents to fall back on.
她是真正無家可歸--我至少有父母可依靠。
9. an unclean piece of flesh:不潔之身
10.cut away:切掉,切除
例句:They cut away all the dead branches from the tree.
他們把樹上的枯枝通通砍掉了。
11. be free from:不受,免于,沒有
例句:When her son returned she was at last free from anxiety.
她兒子回來了,她總算解除了憂慮。