情景對話：

A : You look sleepy.

你好像很困。

B: I stayed up late last night preparing for the quiz.

我昨晚熬夜了，要準備測驗。

A: You should take care of yourself.

你要好好照顧自己。

B: I will. Thank you!

我會的，謝謝！

第一，詞海拾貝：

stay up late

exp. To remain awake past one's usual or required bedtime. （熬夜）

e.g. We let Johnny stay up late last night so he could count down to midnight with us for New Year's Eve.

我們讓約翰尼昨晚睡得很晚，這樣他就可以和我們一起倒數到午夜過新年了。

e.g. He missed two classes so he had to stay up late to catch up on his homework.

他誤了兩堂課，所以必須熬夜才能做完作業。

e.g. Owing to still very weak, she can not stay up late long time.

由于還很虛弱，她不能長時間熬夜。

e.g. Afterwards she relent and let the children stay up late to watch TV.

后來她寬容了些，讓孩子們晚睡看電視。

第二，語匯積累

1. take care of：照顧，照料

e.g. No doubt they will be delighted to take care of him.

毋庸置疑，他們會很高興照顧他的。

e.g. I know you'll be able to take care of it.

我知道你能夠處理好這件事。

2. prepare for：為……做準備

e.g. We were given two days to prepare for the examination.

給了我們兩天時間來準備考試。

e.g. I' ve had no time to prepare for this meeting so I' ll have to play it by ear.

我沒有時間準備這次會議, 所以只好有什么談什么。