1、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. He was lost to the world in this task. available: adj. If you dont want to buy a kite, you can make your own using direc
2、tions available in the book. We have already used up all the available space. Im sorry. Those overcoats are not available in your color and size. 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 (or something like that) The air fare
3、was a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something. Heres some money. Get yourself a sandwich or something. 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
4、 anyway. estimate: Bills personal riches were estimated at $368 million. / I estimate her age at 35. I estimate that the total cost for the treatment of the disease will go from $5,000 to $8,000. n. According to some estimates, the number of farms has increased by 50 percent. My estimate of her char
5、acter was wrong. CF: estimate, evaluate you might as well stay. The post office is really busy. Well 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
6、 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: 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. C
7、ollocation: 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 correspondence: n.1. (often followed by with + n.) His interest in writing came from a long correspondence with a close college friend. The correspondence dropped after the enemys air raid. 2. (us
8、ed 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
9、correspondence 私人通信 in correspondence with 与有通信联系 practically: adv. Shes practically always late for work. Hed 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) (used before ve
10、rb or after a link verb) The boys description kind of gives us an idea of whats happening. She wasnt beautiful. But she was kind of cute. She kind of hoped to be invited. lose touch (with sb.): I lost touch with my former classmates after graduation. In my job one tends to lose touch with friends. a
11、 couple of: Do you have a moment? There are a couple of things Id like to talk to you about. They promised the students that they would find a substitute teacher in a couple of days. on ones mind: Dealings on the stock market have been on his mind all the time. This travel plan has been on my mind a
12、ll week. You are always on my mind. keep in touch (with sb.): 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
13、与取得联系 come up: 1.Sorry, I am late something came up at home. 2.The issue of safety came up twice during the meeting. Collocation: come across 偶遇，碰到 come over 从远处来， 过来；短暂造访 come along 进展；出现 come through 经历（困难） ，安然度过 come down 流传下来；落魄，失势 come up with 想出（计划、答案、回答等） urge: vt. They urged the local govern
14、ment to approve plans for their reform program. Sir Fred urged that Britain (should) join the European Monetary System. postpone: vt. delay (usu. followed by n. / gerund) The couple had postponed having children to establish their careers. We postponed the match from March 5th to March 19th. CF:post
15、pone used mainly in AmE) I often hung out in coffee bars while I was unemployed. We can just hang out and have a good time. 2. I was worried that I had no time to hang out my washing. 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 (every) now and then: (ever
16、y) 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. now and again 不时地 now or never 勿失良机 mostly: adv. almost all; They have invested their money mostly in expensive real estate.
17、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 cant bear the awful smell of cigarette smoke. choke up: When he learned the news of his friends sudden death, he was so choked
18、up that he couldnt say a thing. skip: vt. A newspaper reader can select what he is interested in and skip what he thinks is boring or irrelevant. 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。 right away: at once Tom has got a high fever; he should go and see a doctor right away. He sounded as if he had a cold
19、 or something.It implies the sad state of mind the taxi driver was in. It might just as well have been family. 也可以算是一家人。 At least they do with me because Im on the road so much. At least letters from home mean a lot to me because I travel a lot for long distances. But I take it hes someone youve kno
20、wn quite a while? “I take it” means “I understand (that); I assume (that)”. e.g. As I take it, they wont accept the proposal. But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind when he spoke again, almost more to himself than to me: “I should have kept in touch. Yes,” he repeated, “I should have kept
21、in touch.” But I realized that the taxi driver was still thinking of Old Ed when he spoke again. It seemed that he spoke more to himself than to me. He repeated that he should have kept in touch. The driver repeat that he should have kept in touch: He could have let Ed know how he missed him. It had
22、 references to things that probably meant something to the driver. The letter mentioned something that might be important to the driver. It refers to the letter. Reference means the act of mentioning. “Like it says there,” he answered, “about all we had to spend in those days was time.” “As the lett
23、er says there,” he answered, “though we didnt have much money we had a lot of free time.” There are fewer and fewer still around. Fewer and fewer of us are left alive. But we hung out on the same corner when we were single. But we passed our free time together before we got married. 不过没成家时我俩总在一起闲荡。
24、But for the last 20 or 30 years its been mostly just Christmas cards.But generally speaking we have sent only Christmas cards to keep in touch with each other for the last 20 or 30 years. Your friendship over the years has meant an awful lot to me, more than I can say because Im not good at saying things like that.Your friendship over the years has been very important to me, more important than I can say because Im not good at expressing my feelings.
