(2) avoid 避免,回避;后接名詞、代詞或v. –ing, avoid doing sth. 避免做某事。
The boy avoided punishment by running away.
那個男孩逃跑了,以逃避懲罰。
2. Every time I open my mouth, I put my foot in it.
每當我張嘴,我就會說錯話。
(1) put one's foot in it, it指代前面的mouth; put one's foot in one's mouth意思是“說錯話,失言,犯使人難堪的錯誤”。
If you keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it.
假使你不開口就決不會說錯話。
(2) every time在句中作連詞,引導時間狀語從句。
可以用作從屬連詞的名詞或名詞詞組有:
①由“不定代詞+time”:each time, every time(每一次,每當),any time(任何時候)等。
②由“介詞+time”:at the time(在……時候),by the time(到……時候)等。
③由“序數詞/形容詞+time”:the first time(第一次),last time(上次),next time(下次)等。
④由“the+瞬間動詞”:the moment, the instant, the minute(一……就……)等。
⑤由“the+時間名詞”:the day, the week, the month, the year, the spring, the summer, the autumn, the winter等。