2012年6月英语四级考试常考短语(4)

　　I    so far as ... be concerned    就...而言    As far as I'm concerned, the whole idea is crazy(荒唐的).
　　E    be concerned in/ with    与...有关    He was concerned in the crime.
　　I    in conclusion    最后,总之    In conclusion, I've enjoyed staying here.
　　I    on condition that    在...条件下    I'll come on condition that John is invited too.
　　I    in connection with / to    与...有联系    In connection with your request of March 18th we are sorry to tell you...
　　A    in consequence    因此,结果    We hadn't enough money to pay our bus fare, and in consequence we had to walk.
　　A    in consequence of    由于,因为...缘故
　　In consequence of your laziness and rudeness,I had to dissmiss you.
　　I    in contrast with / to    和...形成对比/对照    In contrast with/to your belief that we shall fail, I know we shall succeed.
　　E    on the contrary    相反,反之    He is not stupid, on the contrary , he is very intelligent.
　　A    out of control    失去控制    The car went out of control and crashed.
　　A    under control    被控制住    It took the teacher months to bring his class under control.
　　I    al all costs    不惜任何代价,无论如何    We must avoid war, at all costs.
　　I    at the cost of    以...为代价    She saved him from the fire, but at the cost of her own life.
　　I    count on    依靠,指望    1. You can't count on the weather being fine. 2. I didn't count on John arriving so early.
　　I    count up    算出...的总数,共计    Count these figures up once more.
　　E    of course    自然,当然,无疑
　　A    in the course of    在...过程中    The enemy should be defeated in the course of the year.
　　A    cover up    掩饰,掩盖    She tried to cover up her nervousness / her guilt by lying.
　　A    cross out    删去,取消    I crossed out the mistakes in my sentence.
　　A    cut across    走捷径,抄近路,对直通过    1.=to take a shorter way across 2. a new group of MP that cuts across party lines.
　　I    cut back    消减,减少,降低    1=prune 2. We oppose any plans to cut back (on) production.
　　I    cut down    消减,减少    1. to cut down a tree 2. I have to cut down (on)smoking.
　　I.A    cut in
　　1A插嘴,打断;2I超车抢挡    1=to interrupt 2. You nearly caused a crash by cutting in (on me) like that !
　　I.A    cut off    1I.切掉,剪去,删去;
　　2打断,停止
　　3.4.A. 阴隔,隔绝    1. Cut off a piece of cheese, will you? 2. We were cut off in the middle of our telephone conversation. 3. If you marry that girl I'll cut you off without a penny.
　　4. Mary felt cut off from her friends when we moved.
　　A    cut out    割去,删去    1.She cut the advertisement out of the newspaper. 2. The rain and wind have cut out a deep valley. 3. I must cut out smoking. 4. Every time I got my car started the engine cut out.
　　A    cut short    打断(讲话),中断(活动)
　　I    in danger    在危险中,垂危    He is in danger of losing job.
　　I    out of danger    脱离危险    She had been very sick, but now she was out of danger.
　　I    out of date    过时的,陈旧的,不用的    My passport(护照) is out of date.
　　A    up to date    现代化的    She wears a new dress that is right up to date.
　　E.I    a good /
　　reatdeal    E.许多,大量
　　I...得多
　　I    deal with    1.与...交易; 2处理;
　　3.论述,涉及    1. I've dealt with this person for 20 years.2. How do you deal with the problem? 3.This new book deals with the troubles in Ireland.
　　A    in debt    欠债,欠情    I'm heavily in debt at the moment but hope to be out of debt when I get paid.
　　I    take (a) delight in    以...为乐    =delight in : He takes delight in annoying me.
　　A    derive from    从...中得到,由...而来,
　　源出于..    1.He derives a lot of pleasure from meeting new people. 2.The word "deride" derives from Latin.
　　I    in detail    详细地    We'll talk about the plan in more detail later.
　　A    die down    渐渐消失,平息    The fire is dying down.
　　A    die out    消失,灭绝    The practice of children working in factories has nearly died out.
　　A    make a/the difference    有影响,很重要    Flowers make a lot of difference to a room.
　　I    in difficulties    处境困难    He is in difficulty with his school work.
　　I    do away with    废除,消灭,去掉    We should do away with those customs.
　　I    do without    没有...也行, 将就    I haven't enough money to buy a car, so I just have to do without (one).
　　E    have something / nothing to do with    和...有(点)/ 毫无关系    Their job has something to do with computers.
　　E    next door    隔壁的,在隔壁    My brother lives next door (to us).
　　E    out of doors    在户外    =outdoors
　　: It 's rather warm out of doors.
　　A    double up    弯腰,把...折起来    They all doubled up (with laughter) when I told my joke.
　　I    no doubt    无疑,必定,很可能    No doubt she means to help, but in fact she just gets in the way.
　　A    draw in    (火车,汽车)到达,到站    The bus drew in to let the cars pass.
　　A    draw up    1.写出,画出,草拟;
　　2.(使)停住    1.to draw up a plan/contract 2.The car drew up (at the gate) and three men got out.
 

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