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Unit 2
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II. Words & Expressions
be lost in lose oneself in: be absorbed in; be fully occupied with
- He was lost in playing computer games so he was unaware of my entering the room.
- I had lost myself in thought.
- 他忙于这项工作而对周围的一切都很漠然。(He was lost to the world in this task.)

available: adj.
1. able to be got, obtained, used, etc.
- If you don’t want to buy a kite, you can make your own using directions available in the book.
- We have already used up all the available space.
- 对不起,这种外套没有你要的颜色和尺码。(I’m sorry. Those overcoats are not available in your
color and size. )
2. able to be visited or seen; not too busy
- 律师现在没空。 (The lawyer is not available now.)

or something: used when you are not very sure about what you have just said
- The air fare was a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something.
- Here’s some money. Get yourself a sandwich or something.
NB:
同义的短语：or something like that

go ahead: continue; begin (sometimes followed by with + n.)
- The board of directors will vote today on whether to go ahead with the plan.
- Henry will be late but we will go ahead with the meeting anyway.

estimate:
1. vt. form a judgment about (a quantity or value)
- Bill’s personal riches were estimated at $$368 million.
- I estimate that the total cost for the treatment of the disease will go from $$5,000 to $$8,000.
- 我估计她有35岁。 (I estimate her age at 35. )
2. n. approximate calculation or judgment made about a quantity or value
- According to some estimates, the number of farms has increased by 50 percent.
- My estimate of her character was wrong.
CF: estimate, evaluate & value
这组词都有“估计”或“估价”的意思。
estimate 指先于实际的测量、计算或测试而作的某种估计或估价，可以是经过仔细考虑，也
可以是随意的。
- He estimated he would do the hundred miles by noon. (他估计自已到中午时能走完这一百英
里路。)
- I asked three building firms to estimate for the repairs to the house. (我请三个建筑公司估计
修缮房屋的费用。)
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evaluate 很少表示用金钱来估计某物的市场价值，而是对其相对或内在价值的评定。
- The research project has only been under way for three months, so it’s too early to evaluate its
success. (这个研究项目进行了不过三个月，所以要对它的效果作出评价为时尚早。 )
value 指估计某物的价值、价格。
- He valued the house for me at ￡3,500. (他为我给这幢房子估价，价值3,500英镑。)
Put into each gap one of the above words. Change the form where necessary.
1. How do teachers evaluate their students’ work?
2. It was estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 spiders in one acre of grass field.
3. They have gone to have their jewels valued.

might may (just) as well: If you say that you might may (just) as well do sth., you mean that
you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly
reluctant about it.
- Anyway, you’re here; you might as well stay.
- The post office is really busy. We’ll have to queue for ages to get served. We might as well go
home.
- 这道甜食我还是不吃了吧。 (I might as well give the sweet course a miss.)

not much of: not a good …
- 天气不是很好。(It is not much of a day. )
- Some people may think that doing housework for others is not much of a career.
- He is not much of a father, but he is an outstanding professor.

keep up: continue without stopping
- They risk losing their homes because they can no longer keep up the repayments.
- I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer than a month.
Collocation:
keep to 坚持；信守
keep up with 跟上；赶上
keep on 继续进行；反复地做
keep out of 躲开；（使）置身于…之外
keep off 避开；不让…接近
Put into each gap one of the above phrases. Change the form where necessary.
1. Keep off the grass!
2. If this rain keeps up, the garden will be ruined.
3. Try to keep out of trouble.
4. Don’t run — I can’t keep up with you.
5. He just kept on writing, paying no attention to the cry of the baby.
6. He always keeps to his promises.

correspondence: n.
1. the act of writing, receiving or sending letters (often followed by with + n.)
- His interest in writing came from a long correspondence with a close college friend.
- 敌人空袭后通信中断了。(The correspondence dropped after the enemy’s air raid. )
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2. the letters that sb. receives or sends (used as an uncountable noun)
- Mary really never mentions her step-mother in her correspondence.
- The library bought all the correspondence between Queen Victoria and her daughters.
Collocation:
carry on correspondence 进行通信
break off correspondence 中断通信
business commercial correspondence 商业书信
personal correspondence 私人通信
in correspondence with 与…有通信联系

practically: adv. almost, but not completely or exactly
- 她几乎每天上班迟到。(She’s practically always late for work. )
- He’d known the old man for practically ten years.
- I know people who find it practically impossible to give up smoking.

kind of sort of: (“kind of” esp. AmE, “sort of” esp. BrE) a little bit; in some way or degree
(used before verb or after a link verb)
- The boy’s description kind of gives us an idea of what’s happening.
- She wasn’t beautiful. But she was kind of cute.
- 她有点希望能受到邀请。 (She kind of hoped to be invited. )

lose touch (with sb.): meet and contact sb. less and less often, gradually stop writing to,
telephoning, or visiting them
- I lost touch with my former classmates after graduation.
- In my job one tends to lose touch with friends.

a couple of: a few; more than one but not many
- Do you have a moment? There are a couple of things I’d like to talk to you about.
- They promised the students that they would find a substitute teacher in a couple of days.

on one’s mind: in one’s thoughts; of concern to one (If sth. is on your mind, you are worried or
concerned about it and think about it a lot.)
- Dealings on the stock market have been on his mind all the time.
- This travel plan has been on my mind all week.
- You are always on my mind.

keep in touch (with sb.): If you keep in touch with someone, you write to, phone, or visit each
other regularly.
- The old man kept in touch with his children while living in a nursing home.
- While doing the research work in the Antarctic, the professor kept in touch with his students via
email.
Collocation:
stay in touch with 与…保持联系
get in touch with 与…取得联系
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come up:
1. happen or occur, esp. unexpectedly
- Sorry, I am late — something came up at home.
- Other projects came up and the emphasis of my work changed.
2. be mentioned or discussed
- The issue of safety came up twice during the meeting.
- News about Project Hope has come up a lot after the earthquake in various media.
Collocation:
come across 偶遇，碰到
come along 进展；出现
come down 流传下来；落魄，失势
come over 从远处来，过来；短暂造访
come through 经历（困难），安然度过
come up with 想出（计划、答案、回答等）
Put into each gap one of the phrases. Change the form where necessary.
1. He couldn’t come up with an appropriate answer just at the time.
2. How’s your work coming along?
3. These legends came down to us from the 15th century.
4. The old man was 90 years old and lucky to come through his operation.
5. We’ve just come across an old friend we haven’t seen for ages.
6. Come over and see us sometime.

urge: vt. try very hard to persuade
- They urged the local government to approve plans for their reform program.
- Sir Fred urged that Britain (should) join the European Monetary System.
- 当老朋友布赖恩怂恿我接受一支香烟时，我实在忍不住了。(When my old friend Brian urged
me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. )
Pattern:
urge sb. to do sth.
urge + that-clause. (In the that-clause, “should” or the base form of a verb is used.)

postpone: vt. delay (usu. followed by n. gerund)
- The couple had postponed having children to establish their careers.
- 我们把比赛从3月5日推迟到3月19日举行。 (We postponed the match from March 5th to
March 19th. )
CF: postpone & delay
这组词都有“延缓”或“耽搁”的意思。
postpone 指将某事推迟或耽搁延后进行，也可以用来比喻将某人或某物置于次要地位。例
如：
- The ball game was postponed because of the rain. (球赛因雨延期。 )
- It is not right for him to postpone the public interest. (他将公众利益放在后面是不对的。 )
delay 指由于干扰或意外事故而延误，特别是延误了某事的预期完成或某人某物的按时到达。有时也可能是由于主观原因故意造成的拖延或耽搁。例如：
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- The flood seriously delayed the train service. (洪水严重延误了铁路运输。 )
- Our debtor delays payment from day to day. (欠我们债的人一天又一天地拖延还款。 )
Put into each gap one of the above words. Change the form where necessary.
1. The ship was delayed two hours.
2. We are postponing our trip until the weather grows warmer.

reference: n.
1. the act of talking about sb. sth., or mentioning them (usu. followed by to)
- It was strange that he made no reference to any work experience in his resume.
- His recent book makes references to the political events of those days.
2. sth. that shows you where else to look for information, for example the page number of
another place in a book
- Make a note of the reference number shown on the form.
3. the act of looking at sth. for information
- Use the dictionary for easy reference.
- Keep their price list for further reference.
Collocation:
a reference book 参考书，工具书
a reference library （不外借书的）参考书阅览室
for reference 作参考
in with reference to 关于

reunion: n. a party attended by members of the same family, school, or other group who have
not seen each other for a long time
- Before she went abroad for further study, the whole family had a big family reunion.
- The soccer club holds an annual a yearly reunion.
Collocation:
a class reunion 毕业后的同班同学聚会
a family reunion 家人团聚

hang out:
1. (infml; used mainly in AmE) stay in or near a place, for no particular reason, not doing very
much
- I often hung out in coffee bars while I was unemployed.
- We can just hang out and have a good time.
- That’s the corner where all the kids hang out.
2. hang clothes on a piece of string outside in order to dry them
- I was worried that I had no time to hang out my washing.
- What a pain! — It’s raining and I’ve just hung the washing out.
Collocation:
hang about around （在…）闲逛
hang on （打电话时用语）不挂断；坚持下去
hang over 挂在…上；笼罩，威胁
hang up 挂断电话；搁置，拖延
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Put into each gap one of the above phrases. Change the form where necessary.
1. I was so angry that I hung up on her.
2. I’m afraid that the line is busy. Would you like to hang on?
3. The danger of war hung over Europe for 21 years.
4. Don’t hang about around. We have a train to catch!

(every) now and then: (every) now and again; sometimes; at times
- Every now and then I have a desire to quit my tedious job.
- I still see Jane for lunch every now and then, but not as often as I used to.
Collocation:
now and again 不时地
now or never 勿失良机
NB:
表示“偶尔、有时”的词和短语：
1. at times 5. from time to
time
2. (every) now and then 6. sometimes
3. (every) now and again 7. on occasion
4. (every) once in a while 8. occasionally

mostly: adv. almost all; generally
- They have invested their money mostly in expensive real estate.
- The guests at the wedding party are mostly friends of the bride.

awful: adj. (used to add force) very great; very bad or unpleasant
- I have got an awful lot of work to do.
- I can’t bear the awful smell of cigarette smoke.

choke up: become too upset to speak
- Losing my job left me completely choked up.
- When he learned the news of his friend’s sudden death, he was so choked up that he couldn’t
say a thing.

skip: vt. pass from (one point, etc.) to another, disregarding or failing to act on what comes
between
- 报纸读者可以选择自己感兴趣的新闻,略过自己认为是枯燥的或无关的消息。 (A
newspaper reader can select what he is interested in and skip what he thinks is boring or
irrelevant. )
- The teacher said: “First skim the text to obtain a general impression of it. Then scan the first
three paragraphs and locate the birth dates of the main characters. And as time is limited, we will
have to skip some of the exercises.”

right away: at once
- Tom has got a high fever; he should go and see a doctor right away.
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- I wrote him a letter and posted it right away.
NB:
表示“立即、马上”的词和短语：
1. at once
2. directly
3. immediately
4. instantly


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5. promptly
6. right away
7. straight away
Words & Expressions

peer: vi. look closely or carefully
-The doctor peered at the patient’s X-ray for a minute.
- 他透过雾仔细张望, 想找出正确的路。(He peered through the mist, trying to find the right

path.)

uneasy: adj. feeling anxious or uncertain
- I feel a bit uneasy about asking her to do me such a big favor.
- 她与她婆婆的关系相当紧张。(She has a rather uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law.)

be (the) best of friends: close friends
- Since Michael moved to our neighborhood, we have been (the) best of friends.

in search of: trying to find
- He disappeared in the direction of the car park, in search of the missing ticket.
- 当她出去寻找木柴时，被一名狙击手打中了。(She was shot by a sniper when she went out in
search of firewood.)

scrape a living: only earn enough money to provide yourself with food, clothing and a place to
live
- The writer scraped a living by sending articles to newspapers when she was unknown.
- 我不想仅仅维持生活；我要赚大把大把的钱。(I don’t just want to scrape a living; I want to
make buckets of money! )

get rid of: destroy; become free of
- Lisa is trying to get rid of the mice in her house.
- 他打开窗户，好让陈腐烟草的气味散去。 (He opened the windows to get rid of the smell of
stale tobacco.)

stuff: n. matter; material
- There’s some sticky stuff on the floor.
- 她所说的关于李的一切都是瞎说。(All that stuff she has been saying about Lee is rubbish.)

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soak: v. become or make completely wet
- You’d better wipe up that red wine you’ve spilt before it soaks (= is absorbed) into the rug.
- 风把雨吹进来了，打湿了地毯。(The wind had blown the rain in and soaked the carpet.)

swing: v. turn around quickly or make sth. turn around quickly
- He swung around and yelled “that’s a damn lie!”
- He sat there swinging his legs.

burst into: start suddenly
- Lily burst into tears when she learned that she didn’t pass the exam.
- 天气突然变暖，树上长出叶子来了。(The weather turned warm unexpectedly, making the
trees burst into leaf.)

fling: vt. throw violently
- The audience cheered and flung their hats into the air when the Jamaican athlete broke the
world record.
- 我们用力将安全绳扔给他。 (We flung him the safety rope.)

crash: v. fall or strike suddenly, violently, and noisily
- He lost control of his car at the first bend and crashed.
- 这架飞机起飞后坠毁了。(The plane crashed after take-off.)

bare: adj. without clothing
- She felt the sun warm on her bare arms.
- 那个男孩光着脚踩在软软的沙子上，一丝声音都没有。 (The boy’s bare feet made no sound
in the soft sand.)

extent: n. rea or length; amount
- From the top of the Empire State Building, you can see the full extent of Manhattan.
- 我们尚不知道他受伤的程度。(We don’t yet know the extent of his injuries.)

worse still: to be worse
- She broke her leg skiing. Worse still, she lost her job a month later.

in bad good shape: in bad good physical condition
- He bought up businesses that were in bad poor shape, and then sold them off bit by bit.
- 我已经好几个星期没锻炼了，现在的身体状况真的很糟糕。(I haven’t had any exercise for
weeks, and I’m really in bad shape.)

despair: n. the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult
or troubling situation
- They’re in the depths of despair over about the money they’ve lost.
- 令老师绝望的是，诺顿对于要求他做的工作从来不做。 (To his teacher’s despair, Norton
never does the work that he’s been told to do.)
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draw on: use part of a supply of
- A company as big as Sinopec has a great amount of expertise to draw on.
- 他的小说大多取材自他的童年经历。 (His novels draw heavily on his childhood.)

lean: vi.
1. move or bend your body in a particular direction
- I leaned back on the pillows and closed my eyes.
- 乔靠在学校的墙上，抽着香烟。(Joe was leaning against the school wall, smoking a cigarette. )
2. depend on someone for support and encouragement
- The old couple leaned on each other for support.
- 迈克尔一直有他哥哥撑腰。(Michael has always had his brother to lean on.)

rescue:
1. vt. help (sb. or sth.) out of a dangerous, harmful or unpleasant situation
- The lifeboat rescued the sailors from the sinking boat.
- 政府已经拒绝挽救该公司，使其免于破产。 (The government has refused to rescue the
company from bankruptcy.)
2. n. an act of rescuing
- I didn’t know anybody at the party, but the hostess came to my rescue (= helped me out of a
difficult situation) by introducing me to a few people.
- 我们在峭壁的石崖上挤成一团，等待救援。(We huddled together on the cliff ledge, waiting
for rescue.)

highlight:
1. n. the best or most exciting or interesting part
- Highlights of the match will be shown after the news.
- 在威尼斯的那个周末绝对是我们这次旅行的高潮。(That weekend in Venice was definitely
the highlight of our trip.)
2. vt. give special attention to
- The report highlights the need for improved safety.
- 课文中的拼写错误已经用绿色突出显示了。(The spelling mistakes in the text had been
highlighted in green.)

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