选修8unit4词汇讲解
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Language points in unit4 Module8
1. work out 计算出,设法弄懂,精心制定出,逐渐解决,按某种方式发展。
1) You can work out the answer by adding all the numbers.
2) I’m not telling you the answer-----work it out for yourself.
3) I haven’t worked out who is going to look after the kids tonight.
4) I hope it all works out between you and me.
5) We didn’t plan our art exhibition like that but it worked out very well.
2.…an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society.
一位语音学专家,认定一个人的英语水平决定这个人的社会地位。
(1) Convince vt. to cause to believer or feel certain; to persuade 说服;使相信,说动(某人)
我们说服了他坐火车去,不要搭飞机去。
We convinced him to go by train rather than plane.
2)(be) convinced + of 短语/ that 从句意思是“坚信…”;“确信…”。例如:
我确信他有罪。
I am convinced of his guilt.
=I am convinced that he was guilty.
3) convince (vt.) sb + of 短语/that 从句,“使…坚信…”; “使…确信…”。
我不认为她的强作欢颜能使她父亲相信她在那个小孤岛上过得开心。
I don’t think her forced smile will convince her father that she lives happily on that small lonely island.
Convinced adj.坚信的,意志坚定的Convincing adj.令人心服的3. set
(1) vt. 安排;布置(岗哨);定(时间、标准);创造(记录);专心于
1)Set guards around the gate.
2) The time and date of the meeting have not yet been set.
3) He set a new record.
4) Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it. (2) vt. 使――做某事;使――处于某状态
5)I opened the cage and set the bird free.
6) A spark set the soods on fire.
(3) vi.(日、月等)下落;下沉
7) It will be cooler when the sun has set.
(4) n. 一套,一组;电器设备
8)I bought a set of LuXun’s short stories.
9) I need a radio set.
短语:set off 出发,动身set out 出发,着手
Set about 开始,着手set up 建立,成立
Set sb. a good example 为某人树立好榜样
4.Hold up
1) raise; keep up举起
Hold up your right hand.
2) show as an example 提出(作为榜样)
The teacher always holds up Tom as a model of hard work.
3) to delay 阻滞
The building of the new road has held up by bad weather.
短语:hold back 使固定;阻挡hold down 压制
Hold to 遵循;坚持hold together (使团结;连接在一起) 5.Hand over 移交;让与;交给某人照料
1)The captain was unwilling to hand over the command of his ship. 军舰的指挥权
2)The thief was handed over to the policeman.
短语:hand down 传给hand over 传递
Hands up 举手hand out 分发,分给
6. But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths.但每次一张嘴说话,他们就原形毕露。
betray oneself 无意中露出本性;背叛
相当多的人面对金钱的诱惑便原形毕露。
Quite a lot of people will betray themselves when tempted by money.
betray
1)vt. give away or make known泄露(秘密)她不会把他的秘密泄露给我。
他向所有的朋友透露了这个消息。
He betrayed the news to all his friends.
2)vt. to be disloyal or unfaithful to 出卖;背叛
他的最好的朋友背叛了他.