高中易混淆重点词组

break

1．break down:

①中断，停顿，破裂

Talks have broken down over the disputed territory

对有争议的领土问题的谈判破裂了

②瓦解,坍塌，崩溃

The bridge broke down in last earthquake.

③(机器等)出故障，失灵，失效，出毛病，坏掉：

The car broke down on our way to school.

④感情上失去控制，不能抑制感情，崩溃：

She broke down in tears when she heard the news.

⑤分解

2. break in:

①强行进入(房屋)，非法强行闯入，破门而入:

If anyone tries to break in, the alarm will go off.

②突然打断(谈话)；插嘴；突然大声地讲话:

She broke in on our conversation.

她突然插话，打断了我们的谈话。

③训练(新手)；使驯服，驯：

The manager is breaking in a new assistant.

经理正在训练一名新助手

3. break out

①(战争、火灾、疾病、争吵等)突然发生，爆发，突发，突然开始，突然出现

An epidemic broke out.一种流行病突然开始流行。

②突然逃跑，(使)脱逃，逃出(监狱)，(使)逃走：

He spent two months in prison before he broke out.

他越狱逃走之前在狱中坐牢两个月。

③向外打破(门等)：

They broke the windows out to escape from the fire.

他们把窗户往外砸破，安全逃出了大火。

4. break up

①解散，驱散，拆散，(使)分散，散开，消散:

The police were attacked as they tried to break up the crowd.解散人群

②分手，分开，破裂

The couple has broken up.那对夫妻离婚了

③解冻，开垦

In spring the ice on the lakes breaks up. 春天湖水解冻。

Cut

1.cut off

①隔绝，分离

The village was cut off by the snow for more than a month.

②中断…的(电话)通话；打断：

The telephone operator cut us off before we had finished our conversation.

我们的话还没说完，电话接线员就中断了我们的通话。

③切断，截断；停止：Our water supply has been cut off again.

我们的供水又被切断。

2.Cut away

①切去；剪去；切掉；砍掉：

He cut away the old branches from the tree.

他把那些枯枝从树上砍下来。

②走开；跑开，逃走：

The boy dropped the apples he had stolen and cut away across the orchard.

那个男孩丢下偷来的苹果，飞快地穿过果园逃走了。

3.cut out

①裁剪；剪出：

The shoemaker carefully examined the leather before starting to cut out the uppers.

鞋匠仔细察看了这张皮子以后才开始裁剪鞋帮儿。

②切去，割去，剪去；删去：

The doctor cut out his tonsils.

医生切除了他的扁桃腺。

You should cut out the unimportant details.

你应当删除掉这些不重要的细节。

4.cut up

①切碎，割碎，剪碎：

She cut up the carrots and put them in the pot.

她把胡萝卜切碎放入锅中。

②苛评；抨击：

His latest novel was cut up by the reviewers.

他的最新小说被评论家批得体无完肤。

5.cut down

①把…砍倒：

Half of the forest was cut down to make room for the road.

为了给新公路腾出地方，这片树林已经被砍去了一半。

②缩减,削减,缩短,删节：

They have to cut down the office staff.

他们不得不裁减办公室的职员。

This article is too long,you have to cut it down to 1,000 words.

这篇文章太长，你得把它压缩到一千字才行。

③砍杀；枪杀；杀害；夺去…的生命；损害…的健康：He was cut down in a car accident.

他死于车祸。

④超过；胜过；击败：

Jim was beginning to argue wildly again,getting his facts wrong,so his elder brother cut him down.

吉姆又激烈地争辩起来，把论据都搞错了，于是他的哥哥就把他击败了。

Put

1.put away