重點(diǎn)講解：
1. grown-up
成年人，大人；
eg. Jan was almost a grown-up.
簡(jiǎn)都快是個(gè)大人了。
eg. Tell children to tell a grown-up if they're being bullied.
告訴孩子們，如果被人欺負(fù)就告訴大人。
2. start off
從…開(kāi)始；從…著手；
eg. We may start off with 20 to 30 candidates. We narrow it down to 10 or so.
我們一開(kāi)始可能有20至30個(gè)候選人，接著會(huì)把人數(shù)減少到10個(gè)左右。
eg. Joe Loss started off playing piano background music for silent films in the 1920s.
喬·洛斯先是于 20 世紀(jì) 20 年代為無(wú)聲電影彈奏鋼琴背景音樂(lè)。
3. rough-and-tumble
混戰(zhàn)，扭打；
eg. From a human point of view this looks like great fun-a real rough-and-tumble kind of game.
對(duì)人來(lái)說(shuō)看似很好玩，就像一場(chǎng)真正的混戰(zhàn)游戲。
eg. Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.
有人擔(dān)心他臉皮太薄，經(jīng)受不住總統(tǒng)選舉的激烈競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。
4. get out of hand
失去控制；不可收拾；
eg. His drinking had got out of hand.
他酗酒的惡習(xí)已無(wú)法控制。
eg. When rates of inflation get out of hand, financial markets often break down.
當(dāng)通貨膨脹迅猛異常以致失去控制時(shí)，金融市場(chǎng)就常常會(huì)陷入崩潰之中。