第一、詞匯學習

1. appropriately adv. 適當?shù)?/strong>

e.g.The acting chairman did everything appropriately.

代理主席把每件事都做得恰如其分。

2. faux adj. 假的

e.g. They're faux fun, and they lead straight to misery.

它們是冒牌貨，而且直接導致出悲傷。

3. preachy adj. 說教的

e.g.In such roles, they need to be careful about getting too serious and preachy.

在這樣角色里，他們需要注意別過分的嚴肅和說教。

4. junior adj.資歷較淺的，低級的

e.g.He likes to lord it over the junior staff.

他喜歡對下級職員逞威風。

5. detective n.偵探

e.g.The detective tried to reason out how the thief had escaped.

這個偵探反復琢磨想弄明白那個竊賊是怎樣逃跑的。

6. scrounge v.四處搜尋

e.g.I managed to scrounge the materials to build a shed.

我設法弄來點材料搭個棚子。

7. dumpster n.<美>大型垃圾箱

e.g.A dumpster out front hadn't yet been carted away.

院外的垃圾箱還沒有拖走。

第二、短語學習

1. cover up：掩飾，掩蓋

e.g.He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime.

他懷疑有人密謀掩蓋犯罪事實。

e.g.They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up.

他們知道自己犯了十分嚴重的錯誤，于是撒謊隱瞞。

2 . take a look at：看......

e.g.You ought to open your eyes and take a look at reality.

你不睜開眼睛去看看現(xiàn)實的環(huán)境。

e.g.Do you have a picture of your brother I can take a look at?

你有你弟弟的照片讓我看一下嗎?

3. race out of：跑出

4. do some research：調查

e.g.I want to do some research before I but a new stock.

我想在買新股票之前做些研究。

5. dig up：發(fā)現(xiàn)，查明(信息或事實)

e.g.Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information.

經(jīng)理的薪金過高，職責太過重大，不能將時間浪費在挖掘市場信息上。

e.g.His description fits perfectly the evidence dug up by Clyde.

他的描述和克萊德發(fā)現(xiàn)的證據(jù)正好吻合。

6. take this job：做這份工作

e.g.You can see it would be in your interest to take this job.

您一定明白接受這份工作對您自己有益。

e.g.I can assure you I'm qualified enough to take this job.

我可以向你保證我有資格取得這份工作。

7. one more moment：更多的時間

e.g.Give me only one moment more of your precious time before you cast me into darkness.

請你再給我一點點寶貴的時間，然后再叫我不明不白地走開吧。

8. scrounge around：四處收尋

9. find out：找出，弄清楚

e.g.It's important to find out what he is doing.

弄清他在干什么是重要的。

e.g.We'd better find out how the land lies before taking any action.

我們最好把情況弄清楚再采取行動。

10. get right on something：立即做某事

e.g.We need to get right on the media advertising plan.

我們必須立刻進行媒體廣告企劃。

第三、實用口語

1. 有的人嫉妒其他人，就會去專門找出這個人的錯誤或不好的事情，讓他丟丑，我們中文常說“抓小辮子”，在英文中可以這么說：

Sb digs dirt up on something.

指點迷津：dig up后面接介詞on，on的意思是“在某件事情上”。

源于臺詞：See what dirt you can dig up on this.

2. 表示馬上去做某事，可以這么說：

Sb. gets right on it.

源于臺詞：Uh, I'll get right on it.