單詞:
ransom: 勒索
employee: 員工
qualified: 合格的;能勝任的
prove: 證明
twist: 扭曲
sweetheart: 甜心
awful: 可怕的
information: 信息
hardly: 幾乎不
point:時刻
重點單詞精學:
Ransom
Exp. money, etc paid for this 贖金; 用以贖身之物
Eg . pay ransom to the kidnappers 付給綁架者贖金
Eg . The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 10000 for his release.
綁架者要10000英鎊贖金才釋放他.Qualified
Eg . There's not enough qualified manpower to staff all the hospitals.
缺乏足夠的合格人員充實各醫(yī)院。
Eg . Our team has qualified for the semi-final.
我隊已有資格進入半決賽。
Twist
Exp. deliberately give a false meaning to (words, etc) (故意)歪曲;曲解(詞等)的意義
Eg . The papers twisted everything I said.
報紙把我的話全都歪曲了。
Eg. The police tried to twist his statement into an admission of guilt.
警方企圖把他的話歪曲成承認有罪。
短語:
slow down: 速度放慢
come clean: 招供
make sense of: 懂得
to be honest: 老實說
fit in: 適應
prove oneself:證明某人的能力
belong to: 屬于…的一員
count on: 指望
be tempted to: 被誘惑去做
pay the price: 付出代價
in no time: 馬上
until this point:直到這時
twist the truth:歪曲事實,說假話
come out of your mouth:出于某人之嘴
right now:現(xiàn)在
tell the truth:說實話,講出真相
get sb fired:解雇某人
重點短語精學:
slow down: 減速, 放慢速度
Eg . Slow down a bit and let me come up with you.
跑慢一點讓我趕上吧。
Eg . Can we slow down and walk for a bit? I'm getting a stitch.
咱們放慢速度步行一會兒好嗎? 我覺得腰部突然一陣劇痛。
come clean:<口>全盤托出, 招供, 坦白承認
Eg . I've got to come clean I was the one who broke the window.
我說實話--窗戶是我打破的。
Eg . Why don't you come clean and tell us your plans?
你為何不和盤托出,把你的計劃都告訴我們?
count on:依靠,指望
Eg . Don' t count on a salary increase this year, ie You may not get one.
別指望今年會加薪.
Eg . After a broken promise, it is hard to count on a person.
一次失約,再要人相信你就難了。
Eg . Many people count on the bus to be on time every day.
每天都有許多人指望公共汽車準時。
Eg . From now on they could count on us.
從今以后,他們盡可信賴我們。
make sense of:懂得, 了解 ... 的意義
Eg . Can you make sense of what I say?
你能領會我說的意思嗎?
Eg . Can you make sense of this telegram?
你搞得懂這電報的意思嗎?
Eg . Can you make sense of this poem?
你看得懂這首詩嗎?
fit in:適合, 適應, 融入(群體)
Eg . Do these plans fit in with your arrangements?
這些計畫與你的安排一致嗎?
Eg . They fit in there.
他們在那里很合適。
in no time:立即, 馬上
Eg . He will come back in no time.
他很快就會回來的。
Eg . It's all ready. And I'll get you something to eat in no time.
都準備好了,我馬上給你們弄點吃的。
Eg . Bear up, out troubles will blow over in no time.
打起精神來,我們的困難馬上就會消除的。
pay the price: 付出代價
Eg . If you want to be successful, you must pay the price, which is hard work.
你若想成功,就必須付出代價,這個代價就是努力。
Eg. The foreign minister had to pay the price for his disloyalty to the government an resign.
外交部長對政府不忠,為此他付出了代價,不得不辭職。