turn up:出現
【典型范例1】Richard had turned up on Christmas Eve with Tony.
理查德和托尼在圣誕夜一道露面了。
【典型范例2】This is similar to waiting for a bus that never turns up.
這就跟等待一輛永遠等不到的公共汽車差不多。
on the run:在逃,被通緝著
【典型范例1】He would tell his parents nothing about his life on the run or how he escaped from England.
有關自己的逃亡生活以及如何逃出英國的事他對父母是什么都不會講的。
【典型范例2】The criminal on the run has firearms with him.
在逃的罪犯身上帶著武器。
in heaven:天上的
【典型范例1】God in Heaven, suppose the baby came before the doctor arrived!
老天爺, 看來在大夫到達之前孩子就要降生了!
【典型范例2】The immortals in heaven were moved by the people's suffering.
人間的災難驚動了天上的神。
steady on:停留,克制
【典型范例1】I say, steady on! You can't say things like that about someone you've never met.
哎, 沉住氣! 你對素未謀面的人不能那樣說人家。
【典型范例2】Steady on: you're giving me the jim-jams!
沉住氣, 你弄得我神經緊張!
第二、短語積累
a laughing stock:笑柄
expose one’s past:揭露某人的過去