1.loved sb from the first moment we met 對某人一見鐘情
例句:"We loved one another from the first moment we met, though we did not speak of our love until the evening of my eighteenth birthday.
"我和理查德是一見鐘情,盡管直到我18歲生日那天我們才表示彼此的愛慕之情。
2.board with 寄宿,搭伙
例句:He was an Englishman who boarded with the Van Rensburgs on the next farm, four or five miles from us.
他是一個英國人,寄宿在我家附近四、五英里一個農場上的范·倫斯堡家里。
3. quarrel withsb同某人吵架
例句:Indeed, for a time he had quarreled with Mynheer Van Rensburg for allowing Richard to board with him, but afterwards he got used to the idea.
有一次,他曾抱怨說倫斯堡先生不應該讓理查德寄住在他的家里,為此還跟他吵過一場,他后來就習以為常了。
4.full of promise 充滿希望,欣欣向榮
例句:"I do not remember very much more about that day, except that the sun seemed to have stopped shining and the country no longer looked beautiful and full of promise, but bleak and desolate as it sometimes does in winter or in times of drought.
"那天的事我記不大清楚了,只記得當時陽光慘淡,田野也失去了美麗的豐采和欣欣向榮的景象,蕭瑟凄涼得跟冬天或大旱時一樣。