詞匯精講:

miniature:

名詞 n.

1.縮樣;縮圖;小型物

Eg.He has a miniature of the Eiffel Tower on his desk.

他的書桌上放著一座埃菲爾鐵塔的模型。

2.微型畫;小畫像

Eg.Mr. Hunter collects early English miniatures.

亨特先生收藏早期英國人物小畫像。

3.微型圖畫繪畫術

形容詞 a. :小型的;微型的;小規模的

Eg.The little girl has miniature furniture for her dolls.

小女孩還有供洋娃娃用的迷你型家具。

及物動詞 vt.:是...的縮影

重點詞組解析:

set up:

1.豎立;建造

Eg.Set up their rules consciousness.

樹立他們的規則意識。

2.建立,創立

Eg.A new government was set up after the war.

新政府于戰后成立。

視野拓展:

1.set up sth.:創建...（組織、機構等）

Eg.They set up a supervisory institution.

他們設立了監察機構。

2.set sb up:也有設局欺騙的意思

Eg.Did she buy that brassel set her up?

她是不是相信是布拉賽爾陷害了她？

3.set sb up:還有掇合兩人，介紹兩個認識（多指男女二人），當掇合講時同意的詞組還有fix sb up, hook sb up

Eg.Well, what about the guy you set her up with?

嗯，你給他找的那家伙怎么樣？

4.set a foot wrong:犯錯誤

Eg.He seems never to have put a foot wrong.

他似乎從不犯錯。

5.set a term to:給...定期限

Eg.They had set a term to the contract.

他們已給合同定了期限。

pine詞組解析:

pine for:渴望;十分盼望

Eg.Unaccustomed to city life, they pined for their own farm.

由于不習慣城市生活,他們非常想念自己的農場。

pine away:消瘦下去

Eg.She seems to be pining away.

她似乎日益消瘦

日常用語:

I just can't do this right now.

我現在還不能去。

Look, my family just blew up. Understand?

我家現在一團糟。