Analysis and Expression

1.stuff
    1) n. material , article 材料,物品
        He is always eating sweet stuff.
    2) v. to fill 塞满
        The bus was stuffed with passengers.

2.It didn't have much effect on me at the moment.
    1) to have (much,little)effect on : to have influence on
        A word from the teacher will have much effect on my son.
    2) at the moment : If it is used in past tense, it means "then."If
        in present tense, it means "now".
        He was busy at the moment.
        He is reading at the moment.

3..back up:倒车（ 倒退回去）
        to back a car up 倒车
        They couldn‘t understand ,so he backed up and told them once more.

         他们不懂，所以重新倒回去解释。

4.In any case: anyhow 无论如何，不管怎样
        In any case, finish this work today..
        burst: v..
    1) 爆裂，绽开
        The type burst.
        The sun burst through the clouds.
    2）充满，挤满（常用-ing形式）
        The city was bursting with visitors .

5.but during the night a thick fog came on .
        come on : attack “袭来” “开始…起来。”
        A storm came on in the afternoon
        下午下起雨来。
        I felt a cold coming on .
        我觉得开始有点感冒了。

6..…and didn‘t see the lights until they were nearly on top of them.
    1)“them” replaces the lights.
    2)on top of : nearby
        The bookstore is just on top of a restaurant.
        to be well qualified 胜任
        He is the man on top of his job.

7.Beautiful warm night and a good moon: It was a beautiful warm night with a good moon.

8.there seemed to be nothing whatever wrong with the road : in a negative sentence,“  whatever ” is placed after a noun for stress.相当于“at all ”，丝毫的,任何的。

        No one whatever would have anything to do with him.

9.and about fifteen yards up the road: about fifteen yards aways from the road.

10.…in light brown clothes with squares on the cloth.

        我看见他似乎穿着淡棕色格子布的衣服。.

11.They had just put the wood blocks back loosely, and brushed some sand over the whole thing.

        他们只是把松散的木块随便铺上,而且在上面撒了一些沙子.
        wood blocks 大木块,
        put …back 把…放在后面
        He put some chairs back in order to make room.

12.It looked white just where the collar would be.这使得那块路更像一个人的样子.
        where : 达到------地步
        I did get to where I wasn‘t terrified.
        我确实达到了不害怕的地步..return
        You found yourself in a low-down eating house in New York.
    1) to find oneself --- : to be in some state unconsciously.
        He found himself near the king‘s palace.
        他不知不觉来到国王的宫殿。
    2) a low-down eating house : an eating place for poor people.

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13. I 'll arrest him, and that will do me good: I'll arrest him and that will make my superiors pleased with me.

14.Then he started off the road, meaning to pick him up.
        He started walking forward to the place where that.
        man was lying ,to help him stand up.
        start off: set off 动身,出发
        They started off across the desert.

15.then it really was as good as a play.
        as good as: almost 与-----几乎一样, 实际上等于
        We 've as good as ruined
        The house was as good as sold .

16.But this car didn't drive on as it ought to have done.
    1) to drive on , "on"here means continuously .
    2) ought to have done sth.: should have done sth. It means sth.should be done ,but in         fact it wasn't. The former is stronger than the latter.
        The house was not very old .It ought not to have been knocked down.
        这房子不旧,本不该拆毁.

17.General excitement:There was general excitement,meaning people were talking and running about as if they were greatly disturbed.

18.run over :碾过
        He was run over by a carriage and got hurt.

19.They said he had walked right into them:They

        said the man walked directly into their moving car.

20.Chance: an event that happens by accident.