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Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院 |
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 Let
me get this straight. |
| Meaning: Let me try to understand
the situation; Let me find out if I have all the facts; Let me make
this clear. 首先我得搞清楚。 |
| He
just picked up and went off. |
| Meaning: He just stood up
and left home. 他说走就起身走了。 |
| pick up |
| 1) take up; lift
拾起；拿起 1. I picked up the telephone and asked for the number of the Chemistry Department. 我拿起电话问化学系的号码。 2. The little boy picked up a stone. 小男孩拾起一块石头。 2) acquire or obtain by chance, or unexpectedly 碰巧（或意外地）得到 1. She picked up a real bargain at the shop today. 她今天在商店里意外地买到了十分便宜的东西。 2. I picked up that dictionary in a second-hand book shop. 这本字典是我偶然在一家旧书店里找到的。 3) earn (an income) 赚钱 1. She picked up a few dollars by doing odd jobs. 她靠打零工挣几美元。 2. There are men in that factory picking up 50 pounds a week. 那家工厂有的人每周挣50磅。 |
| Enough’s
enough. |
| Meaning: He’s fed up with
his wife’s complaints. 他只是说受够了。 |
| put
an ad in the paper |
| Meaning: put an advertisement
in the newspaper. 在报上登了启示。 |
| We’re
living off the money we saved from the summer we worked…. |
| Meaning: We keep the family
going by spending the money we saved. The boy’s father has left home
leaving his wife and children with no source of income. Therefore
they have to use the money they have saved in order to buy their daily
provisions. 我们现在靠夏天工作积攒的钱生活。 |
| live off: |
| depend upon for support;
find enough food or income in (sth) 靠…过日子；靠…得到足够的食物或收入 1. I’m afraid that Sue will not be able to live off her writing, much as she hopes that she will. 恐怕苏将不能以写作为生，尽管她希望如此。 2. She’s living off the money her mother left. 她靠母亲留下的钱为生。 由live 构成的其他词组： live by: make a living from (sth or doing sth); live by means of 靠…为生 1. Honest men live by the sweat of their brow. 诚实的人靠辛勤劳动谋生。 2. He tried to live by writing. 他试图以写作为生。 live on: find enough income in (sth); support oneself with (money) 靠（从事…）来维持生活；自立 1. More and more people are living on unemployment insurance. 越来越多的人靠失业保险金过日子。 2. I’m living on the money I earned. 我在靠自己赚的钱生活。 |
