重點講解:
1. beat the drum/bang the drum
竭力鼓吹;搖旗吶喊;
eg. The sociologists beat the drum for full employment.
這些社會學家極力主張充分就業 。
eg. The trade secretary disagreed but promised to 'bang the drum for industry'.
貿易部長并不同意,但是答應會“為產業界搖旗吶喊” 。
2. in order to
為了;以便;目的在于;
eg. Most people have no objection of these various restrictions, who in order to live have been used to sitting down under it.
多數人對這些沒有絲毫不滿,為了生存,人們已習慣逆來順受 。
eg. People often put money aside in order to save up enough to make one major expenditure.
人們常常為了一筆大的開銷而存錢 。
3. be keen on sth./doing sth.
渴望的;熱切的;熱衷的;
eg. I was really keen on studying for a year in Great Britain.
我真渴望去英國學習一年 。
eg. I'm not at all keen on that sort of job. It makes me crazy.
我根本不喜歡那種工作,它簡直使我發瘋 。
4. end up (in) doing sth.
最終;結果;到頭來;
eg. He never dreamed that he would end up owning such a lot of property.
他做夢也沒想到他最后會擁有這么一大筆財產 。
eg. Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer.
或早或晚,大多數作家最終都會著書講述身為作家的苦惱 。
n. 財產,所有物,性質,地產,道具