1.fuel for one's fire 火上澆油
Don't try and apologise yet! You'll only befuel to her fire if you go round there while she's still angry.
你先別道歉!你在她氣頭上去找她,只能是火上澆油 。
2.the playing of favorites 厚此薄彼;偏愛;偏心
The playing of favorites with children is wrong. They should be treated equally.
偏愛個(gè)別孩子是不對(duì)的 。對(duì)孩子應(yīng)該一視同仁 。
3.set aside 擱置
But amid the tension, there was an inkling Tuesday that differences could be set aside, if only for a moment.
盡管局勢(shì)緊張,周二有跡象顯示,分歧可能會(huì)被擱置一旁,哪怕只是短暫地?cái)R置 。
4.turn away 拒絕
The proposal is most likely to be taken up by highly selective institutions, which turn away thousands of qualified candidates a year.
名校很可能會(huì)采納這一提議 。在此之前,每年都有數(shù)千名具備資格的考生被這些院校拒之門外 。
adj. 有資格的,有限制的