英语常用词点滴

Hauser

每天都学一两个常用词，久而久之相信对英语程度的提高会有帮助的。

being 人生，身心
What is the real nature of being?
His very being felt the need of love.
He responded with his whole being.

choke up 激动得控制不住感情， 生闷气
When one speaker after another praised Ida, she choked up and couldn't thank them.
"What's wrong with old Nathan this morning?" "Oh, he's all choked up about Percy being promoted over him."

kohno

支持！

Hauser

dare 敢(用于否定句)
And I daren't ask you,because I thought I must be wrong.
I scarcely dare think of it.

effect 实现，进行，产生。。结果
The pilot effected a take-off despite the bomb-pocked runway.
I will effect my purpose, no one shall stop me!
We effected the plan with a minumum of fuss.
A single glass of brandy may effect his recovery.

KornLeeMJ

这是个好贴， 请继续

KornLeeMJ

补充：
manipulate: 当指人的时候， 通常是指他／她做一些不好的事情， 比如幕后黑手等

Hauser

最初由 KornLeeMJ 发表
补充：
manipulate: 当指人的时候， 通常是指他／她做一些不好的事情， 比如幕后黑手等

For example, some people like to manipulate their ID to get another substitute, such as Korn1ee and the like.

Hauser

first 初次，开始时
I first heard of it yesterday.
When he first explained what he was after, I wasn't keen at all.

grant 承认
He would not grant that he was wrong.
I grant you that he wastes his money, but he always spends it on his friends.

Hauser

go into 研究，讨论，谈
They went into it very thoroughly.
He said he would go into the problem in his next lecture.
We can not go into all the details now.

take a liking to 喜欢，对。。。很喜欢
He took a liking to Janice.
She seemed to have taken a strange liking to me.

Hauser

hard as nails 非常结实，冷酷无情
After a summer of work in the country, Quentin was hard as nails, without a pound of extra weight.
The lawyer was as hard as nails. He felt no pity for anyone.

peep 迅速看一眼
She peeped quickly at the sleeping child.
The girl peeped round the door and asked us in.

Hauser

puzzle over 苦苦思考
They puzzled over their arithmetic for an hour.
I keep puzzling over his strange behavior.

roar 吼叫，轰鸣
We heard the roar of a wild animal.
The roar of airplane engines announced a coming air raid.