in the first place:首先
【典型范例1】Your daughter never called you in the first place, okay?
首先你女兒就沒有給你打過電話, 對不對?
【典型范例2】In the first place, it wasn't one bad review in one lousy magazine.
首先,這不是爛雜志的惡心評論。
in the second:其次
【典型范例】In the second place I have been going at it as hard as any one of you.
其次,我也象你們一樣一直在為之忙乎。
belong to:屬于
【典型范例1】Two-thirds of the members belong to the wealthy class.
三分之二的成員屬于富有階級。
【典型范例2】If you love someone, you will like all that belong to him.
愛屋及烏。(打狗要看主人面。)
in charge of :負責,主管
【典型范例1】I'm looking for whoever is in charge of your company.
我要找你們公司的負責人。
【典型范例2】The babysitter was in charge of the kids while the parents were out.
保姆在父母不在家的時候,負責照顧孩子們。
ashamed of:對......感到慚愧,對......感到害羞,難為情,害躁
【典型范例1】He always felt ashamed of the existence his parents were living.
他總是為他父母的生活方式感到羞恥。
【典型范例2】She was ashamed of having failed in the examination.
她因考試不及格而感到羞愧。