budget
預算
a monthly / an annual / a family budget
每月/年度/家庭預算
the education / defence budget (= the amount of money that can be spent on this)
教育/國防預算
an advertising budget of $2 million
預計 200 萬元的廣告費
a big-budget movie
一部巨額預算的電影
We decorated the house on a tight budget (= without much money to spend).
我們儉省地裝修了房子。
swamp
swamp sb with sth
swamp sth with sth
to make sb have more of sth than they can deal with
使不堪承受;使疲于應對;使應接不暇
同義詞:inundate
The department was swamped with job applications.
面對紛至沓來的求職申請,這個部門疲于應對。
In summer visitors swamp the island.
夏天,這個島上熙熙攘攘,人滿為患。
look through sb [no passive]
to ignore sb by pretending not to see them
佯裝沒有看見而不理會某人
She just looked straight through me.
她竟然假裝沒看見我。
clean up
clean sth up
to remove dirt, etc. from somewhere
打掃(或清除)干凈
He always expected other people to clean up after him (= when he had made the place dirty or untidy).
他總是指望別人來打掃他弄臟了的地方。
Who's going to clean up this mess?
這么又臟又亂的,誰來清理?