1.quit school 退學

例句：If you really want my advice I don't think you should quit school.

如果你真想聽我的意見，我想你不應該退學。

Quit the job as manager 在經理的職位上辭職

If I don't get more money I'll quit.

不給我加薪我就辭職。

He has decided to quit as manager of the team.

他已決定辭掉球隊經理的職務。

He quit the show last year because of bad health.

去年他因身體欠佳而退出了表演。

2.work ethic 工作態度，工作要求

例句：You have the choice of where to work, what to do, and what work ethic you are going to have.

去哪里工作，做什么，你想要怎樣的職業要求，這些你都得做出選擇。

professional/business/medical ethics

職業/商業道德；醫德

to draw up a code of ethics

擬定一份道德規范

He began to question the ethics of his position.

他開始對他的立場是否符合道德準則提出質疑。

3.have an intuition that 我有…的直覺（我感到）

例句：With the number of people I am touching increasing, I have seemingly cultivated an intuition that who will be the true friends and who are not.

現在接觸人多了，對于誰會成為我的朋友，誰不會是我的朋友的判斷仿佛有了直覺。

4.start out 1.開始從事,著手(某工作)；從業 2.最初想要；起先打算

to start out in business

做起生意來

例句：She started out on her legal career in 1987.

她于 1987 年開始從事法律工作。

I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.

我起先打算寫一篇短篇小說,但很快就寫成了長篇小說。

5.dead end 絕境；僵局

例句：We had come to a dead end in our research.

我們的研究工作已陷入絕境。

He's in a dead-end job in the local factory.

他在當地工廠的工作是沒有前途的。

These negotiations are a dead-end street.

談判陷入僵局。

6.fixated (on sb/sth) (對…)異常依戀,固戀，關注某事

例句：Ironically, my husband was fixated on the fact that I might be an alcoholic.

具有諷刺意味的是，我的丈夫深信我只是一個嗜酒的人。

7.有關“potential”的短語

potential customers 潛在的客戶

a potential source of conflict 潛在的沖突根源

a potential prime minister 未來的首相

例句：First we need to identify actual and potential problems.

首先,我們需要弄清實際的問題和潛在的問題。