五十一、suit
1、套裝,衣服。
You look great in your new suit. 你穿上新衣服后看上去棒極了。
I bought a good suit in a clothing store. 我在衣服店里買了一套很好的套裝。
2、一套公寓。這個意思必須根據(jù)后文來進行判斷。
I bought a new suit in the central city this year. 我今年在市中心買了套公寓。
3、適合。
I hope it will suit you, sir. 我希望它能適合你,先生。
五十二、take
1、take a picture of 給……照相
Could you take a picture of me with the lake in the background? 你能以湖為背景給我照張像嗎?
2、take good care of 好好照看
The man at the garage thinks that I take good care of my car. 修車庫的人認為我非常愛惜自己的車。
五十三、tend to
傾向于,趨向于。
The paper says people tend to feel unwell if they sleep less than six hours a day. 報紙上說人如果每天睡眠少于6個小時將感到不舒服。
五十四、through
本意是穿越,穿過。在以下幾個搭配中分別又有了不同的含義。
1、瀏覽。 read (straight) through
I’d better read it through again. 我最好還是再通讀一次。
I didn’t read straight through the way you read a novel.我不像你讀小說那樣從頭到尾地瀏覽一遍。
2、結(jié)束、完成(工作)be (go) through
I had a hard time getting through this test. 完成測驗對我來說很難。
That only leaves us 15 minutes to go through the customs and check our baggage. 我們只有15分鐘的時間來接受海關(guān)檢查和行李檢查。
After two sleepless nights, I’m finally through with it. 經(jīng)過兩個不眠之夜,我終于完成了。
3、接通。get sb through
Would you get me through to Dr. Lemon please? 能幫我接通Lemon醫(yī)生嗎?
4、睡過了。sleep through
How could you sleep through it? 你怎么能睡過頭了呢?
5、播放出來。come through
The power indicator was on, and it was running, but somehow the sound didn’t come through. 電源指示燈是亮的,并且正常工作,但是為什么聲音就是出不來呢?
五十五、turn
拒絕。turn down
有人會因為頻繁的公務(wù)旅行(frequent business trips)而turn down一份還不錯的工作。
而當因為某些事情而拒絕別人的邀請(turn down one’s invitation)時是最難以啟齒的尷尬時刻,只能以I’d love to, but…等來搪塞。
轉(zhuǎn)向,轉(zhuǎn)移。 turn attention to 轉(zhuǎn)移注意力