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吉林大学远程教育学院

    >>>>   Unit One
    >>>>   Unit Two
    >>>>   Unit Three
    >>>>   Unit Four
    >>>>   Unit Five
    >>>>   Unit Six
    >>>>   Unit Seven
    >>>>   Unit Eight
    >>>>   Unit Nine
    >>>>   Unit Ten
    >>>>   Unit Eleven
    >>>>   Unit Twelve
    >>>>   Unit Thirteen
    >>>>   Unit Fourteen
    >>>>   Unit Fifteen
    >>>>   Unit Sixteen
    >>>>   Unit Seventeen
    >>>>   Unit Eighteen
    >>>>   Unit Nineteen
    >>>>   Unit Twenty
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-one
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-two
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-three
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-four
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-five
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-six
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-seven
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-eight
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-nine
    >>>>   Unit Thirty

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4. The Chinese take naturally to cooking.

中国人天生喜欢烹饪。

take to: be attached to, like sth./sb.喜欢，对…产生好感

We asked him if the French would take to golf.
我们问他法国人是否喜欢高尔夫球。

John took to Paul as soon as they met.
约翰一见到保罗就喜欢上了他。

5. It cost us about $50 for our furniture and apparatus, and we made close upon $60 a week, which we divided between us.

购置家具和设备花了50美元，每周赚大约60美元，利润平分。

close upon/on/to: nearly 接近，差不多(后跟一个表示一定量的数词）

She is close on fifty. 她快50岁了。

In 1983 there were close upon three million unemployed in Britain.
1983年在英国有将近300 万人失业。

6. We had to put up with many insults and some frauds, as men would come in and claim parcels that did not belong to them, saying they had lost their tickets, and would fight if they did not get what they asked for.

我们不得不忍受许多污辱和一些人的欺骗，因为有些人走进我们店里来，索取不属于他们的一包衣服。他们谎称丢了取款单，扬言如果不把东西交给他们就打架。

put up with：bear 忍受，容忍

I can’t put up with this noise. 我受不了这噪音。

claim ：宣称；认领

No one has claimed the purse so far.
到目前为止没人认领这钱包。