第三十五节 多个词一起构成的短语(续2)
41. Traffic cops sometimes face not-so-innocent questions.
有时交警会听到这种表面单纯,其实另有深意的问话。
42. It implies that the issues at stake are castor oil, that they need to be taken with a
screenful of colorful-global thriller sugar to make the medicine go down.
它暗示了这些危如累卵的问题是蓖麻油,这种药必须再吃一勺糖才能咽下去,而
这糖就是充斥屏幕、色彩缤纷的全球化惊悚片情节。
43. A director with the airport's expansion construction department once claimed
that the terminal's roofs is designed and built to withstand once-a-century winds.
一位负责机场扩建的部门主管曾经声称停机楼的楼顶按照设计可以承受百年一遇的大风。
44. It's a once-in-a-lifetime offer. 这是一个千载难逢的报价。
45. stay -at -home mother. 全职妈妈
46. a very much –like-Chinese looking chair.
一把看起很有中国特色的椅子。
47. There is a give-and-take relationship. 一个互让关系
48. the English-as-the –second- language student.
把英语作为第二语言的学生。
49. how to do presentation websites. 如何演讲的网站。
50. no-fly zone. 禁飞区。
51. one-size-fit all. 万能的标准。
52. no-burn policy. 禁止焚烧。
53. cradle-to-grave tracking system. 从婴儿到坟墓的追踪制度。
54. all –powerful. 无所不能的/全能的。
55. stand-only use. 独立使用。
56. The insistence on a clear cut all-or-nothing decision.
坚持一个明确的孤注一掷的决定。
57. after-the-fact accounts. 犯罪后的记录。
58. They are not hand-to-mouth societies. 这个社会并不处于仅能糊口的状态。
59. Early birds catch the worm in this open-for-business, resource-rich African
country.
在这个资源丰富、商业开放的非洲国家,早起的鸟儿有虫吃。
60. The sheer number of sand-grain-size dots on treated possessions—up to 5,000—
makes it all but impossible for thieves to take them off and sell the harvested parts.
在经过处理的所有物上那些沙粒大小的数据点多达 5000 个,单是这个数字使盗贼几乎不
可能把它们完全清除掉,因而他们也不能卖掉所盗来的部件。
词 汇 积 累
1. heel n 脚后跟;踵
a. World war 2 came on the heels of the great depression.
二战紧随着大萧条到来。
b. This is on the heels of depression difficulty with your shelter.
因为这紧挨着大萧条,住房本来就短缺。
2. height n 高度;身高;顶点
a. morald height. 道德高度。
b. Few individuals reach such heights of intellectual endeavor.
很少有人能够达到这种智者高度。
3. helmet n 钢盔,头盔
helmet laws. 戴头盔法案。(逻辑动词省略的“名词加名词”结构)
4. help n 帮助;补救办法;帮忙者;有益的东西
help materials. 辅助材料。
5. here n 这里
You are the here of my heart. 你对我来说很重要。