问题描述：
请帮我解释一下以下词组的意思
refer to
keep to
point to
set up
make up
take up
send up
join to
join up
unite with
connect with
go after
go against
go in for
go on with
give off
give out
give in
give away
keep up
catch up
do up
take up
let in
drop in
refer to
keep to
point to
set up
make up
take up
send up
join to
join up
unite with
connect with
go after
go against
go in for
go on with
give off
give out
give in
give away
keep up
catch up
do up
take up
let in
drop in
问题解答：
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efer to:
vt. 涉及(指的是,提作,参考,适用于)
Examples:
1. It can also refer to a conflict or disagreement, often involving violence.
这个词还可指冲突或不和,常涉及暴力行动.
2. A unit of work that is defined by a user and that is to be accomplished by a computer. Loosely, the term"job" is sometimes used to refer to a representation of a job. This representation may include a set of computer programs, files, and control statements to the operating system.
由用户定义让计算机去完成的一种工作单位.习惯上说,“作业”这个术语通常指的是作业的一种表述,这种表述可以包括一组计算机程序、一组文卷及一些给操作系统下达命令的控制语句.
3. For netmeeting instructions refer to microsoft's documentation or online help.
关于NetMeeting指南,可参考Microsoft文档或在线帮助.
4. The new law does not refer to land used for farming.
这条新的法律不适用于农用土地.
5. For further particulars, please refer to Chapter Ten.
详情请看第10章.
6. Don't refer to this matter again, please.
请不要再提这件事了.
keep to:
坚持,遵守,信守
Examples:
1. Keeping to a strict diet is a question of mind over matter.
坚持某一规定饮食,是毅力能否战胜物质诱惑的问题.
2. In England traffic must keep to the left.
在英国,车辆必须靠左行驶.
3. They keep to the custom of having their marriages only in May.
他们固守传统, 只在五月举行婚礼.
4. Things will only work out if we all keep to the plan.
只有大家执行计划, 事情才能成功.
5. She's old and infirm and has to keep to the house.
她因年老体弱而足不出户.
6. If we can't keep to the schedule, we'll be in (a lot of) trouble.
我们不按时完成计画就要倒（大）霉了.
7. Keep to the track the moor is very boggy around here.
不要偏离车道--这一带沼泽地多.
8. Keep to the path or you'll lose your way.
沿著这条小道走, 否则就要迷路.
point to: 指向
Examples:
1. She needs to win this point to level the score.
她要赢得这一分才能将比分扳平.
2. He pointed to a tower on the distant horizon.
他指向远处地平线上的一座塔.
3. I can't point to any one particular reason for it.
那件事我找不出具体原因来.
4. In word processing, the ability to define information so as to move it from one point to another within a text element or into another text element, or to edit it.
在字（词）处理技术中,定义信息的一种能力,以便将该信息从正文部分的一点移到另一点或移入另一个正文部分中或进行编辑.
set up:vi. 建立
Examples:
1. The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.
华尔街金融滑坡引起世界股票市场的连锁反应.
2. A hot drink will soon set you up.
你喝杯热饮料马上就精神了.
3. A fund will be set up for the dead men's families.
抚恤死难工人家属的基金会即将建立起来.
4. A week in the country will set her up nicely after her operation.
她手术后在郊外住上一个星期一定能复原.
5. He likes to set himself up as an intellectual.
他喜欢自命为知识分子.
6. How long will it take to set up the projector?
把这个放映机安放好需要多长时间?
7. Her father set her up in business.
她父亲出钱帮她创业.
8. His father set him up as a bookseller.
他父亲资助他做了书商.
make up:
n. 弥补, 虚构, 缝制, 整理, 包装, 和解, 编辑, 化妆,补足,拼凑, 做, 制造,创造, 起草, 制定, 设置, 征收, 准备
Examples:
1. I tried to make up for my loss.
我力图补偿我的损失.
2. No benefactions and research endowments can make up for the change in character which the city has suffered.
任何捐款和研究基金也弥补不了这个大学城所遭受的特性的变化.
3. Pay increases will not always make up for poor working conditions.
工资的增长并不总能够弥补恶劣的工作环境之不足.
4. Saying you are sorry won't make up the damage of breaking the vase.
光说对不起补偿不了你打破花瓶的损失.
5. Let's make up.
让我们言归于好吧.
6. She tired to make up to the boss.
她想讨好老板.
7. I can't make up my mind.
我下不了决心.
8. Farm workers make up only a small section of the population.
农民只占人口的一小部分.
take up:
vi. 拿起(开始,从事,吸取,接纳)
Examples:
1. I must take you up on that point.
我一定要就那个问题和你辩论.
2. She took up the narrative where John had left off.
她接著讲约翰未讲完的故事.
3. She's taken up with an unemployed actor.
她跟一个失业的男演员混得很熟了.
4. I'd like to take you up on what you said about unemployment.
对於你谈过的失业情况,我想向你提出问题.
5. This table takes up too much room.
这张桌子太占地方了.
6. Blotting-paper takes up ink.
吸墨纸能吸墨水.
7. This chapter takes up where the last one left off.
本章接续上一章谈到的内容.
send up:
vi. 提出(上升,检举,提高)
Examples:
1. Any increase in production costs is bound to send up prices.
生产成本的增加必定使价格上涨.
2. As soon as you get to the assembly point send up a red flare.
你们一到达集合地点马上发射一颗红色的信号弹.
3. Did you know that Peter was sent up for ten years?
你知道彼得被判处10年徒刑吗?
join to:
vt. 把两个东西接在一起
Examples:
1. Two widths of cloth were joined to make the curtain.
是用两幅布料拼成的这个帘子.
2. A part or an organ, such as an arm, a leg, a tail, or a fin, that is joined to the axis or trunk of a body.
附器,附肢与身体的轴或躯干相连的部位或器官,如胳膊、腿、尾或鳍
join up:
联合起来,联接起来
Examples:
1. Nowadays, people can join up each other by telephone.
现在人们能通过电话互相联系了.
2. We both joined up in 1939.
我们俩都是1939年入伍的.
unite with:
v. 联合, 混合
Examples:
1. The more of the masses we unite with, the better.
我们联合起来的群众越多,就越有利.
connect with:
vt. 联系(接触)
Examples:
1. One thing that is related to or connected with another.
相配物与另一种东西有关系或有联系的东西
2. The train is timed to connect with the ferry.
火车时刻编排得可与渡轮运行时刻衔接.
3. Where does the cooker connect with the gas-pipe?
煤气炉在什麽地方与煤气管道衔接?
4. The two pipes which connect with the sewer have been blocked up for a month.
这两条与下水道相连的管子已经堵了一个月.
go after:
追逐,追求
Examples:
1. What are you going after?
你在追求什么?
2. If Saddam defies the ultimatum, the anti-Iraq allies who fought Saddam in the Gulf War two years ago could retaliated by bombing his missiles–or up the ante and go after Iraqi air bases or was planes.
如果萨达姆公开拒绝最后通牒,两年以前在海弯战争中与萨达姆作战的反伊拉克盟国可能轰炸他的导弹以为报复——或提高赌注攻击伊拉克空军基地或战机.
3. I've decided to go after that job in Ohio.
我决定力争得到俄亥俄州的那份工作.
go against:
vt. 违反(有利于)
Examples:
1. He went against the advice of his colleagues and resigned.
他不顾同事的劝告辞了职.
2. Paying for hospital treatment goes against her socialist principles.
付给医院医疗费是有违她的社会主义原则的.
3. His thinking goes against all logic.
他的思维完全不合逻辑.
4. The jury's verdict went against him.
陪审团裁断他有罪.
5. The war is going against us.
这场战争对我们很不利.
6. Don't go against your parents/your parents' wishes.
不要违背父母的意愿.
7. Don't do anything that should go against his will.
不要做违背他心意的事.
8. Teenagers often go against the stream.
青少年经常反潮流而动.
go in for:
a. 赞成(参加,从事)
Examples:
1. Most girls do not go in for rough games.
大多数女孩子不参加粗野的游戏.
2. Many people went in for writing, music, dramatics and similar activities.
很多人从事绘画、音乐、演剧和其他类似活动.
3. He must have have a magnificient build before his stomach go in for a career of its own.
当他的肚子还未酷爱其份内的工作放开量大吃大喝）之前,他一定已经有了副强健的体格.
4. I don't go in for loud popular music.
我不喜欢喧闹的流行音乐.
go on with:
继续
Examples:
1. I will go on with my work unless I get the order to the contrary.
我将继续工作直到我得到相反的命令.
2. Please go on with your story.
请继续讲你的故事.
3. Now that you have already been at this level in your research work, you should go on with it.
既然你的科研工作已达到这个水平,你应该继续下去.
4. If we don't finish painting the kitchen today, we can go on with it tomorrow.
要是今天厨房粉刷不完, 明天可以接著干.
give off:
发出(光等)
v. 放出,排出
Examples:
1. All the radioactive materials give off the harmful radioactive which can be deadly at high levels.
所有这些放射性材料都放出有害的射线,小则致癌,大能致死.
2. When wine is fermented it gives off bubbles of gas.
酒发酵时会放出气泡.
3. As motor vehicles burn fuel, they give off carbon monoxide as a waste.
在汽车燃烧燃料时,产生废气—一氧化碳.
4. Physicists are studying new ways of generating electricity with less damage to the environment. In the meantime, many power plants are being modernized to give off less polluting material.
物理学家们正在研究对环境危害少的发电新方法,与此同时,许多发电厂也在实现现代化以减少污染物质的释放量.
give out:
分发
Examples:
1. The teacher gave out the examination papers.
教师发了考卷.
2. After a month their food supplies gave out.
过了一个月, 他们的食物已消耗殆尽.
3. The radiator is giving out a lot of heat.
散热器释放出很多热量.
4. One of the plane's engines gave out in mid-Atlantic.
飞机在大西洋中部飞行时, 其中一个发动机出了故障.
5. Her patience finally gave out.
她终於失去了耐性.
6. It was given out that the President had been shot.
据称总统受到枪击.
7. The news of the President's death was given out in a radio broadcast.
总统逝世的消息已在电台上播出了.
8. He has refused to give out any information on the matter.
他已拒绝发表有关此事的任何消息.
give in:
屈服,让步
Examples:
1. She's a gutsy player, she never gives in.
她是个勇敢的选手, 从不屈服.
2. The authorities showed no signs of giving in to the kidnapper's demands.
当局对绑架者的要求丝毫没有让步的迹象.
3. Please give your examination papers in (to the teacher) when you've finished.
考卷答完后请上交（给老师）.
4. The rebels were forced to give in.
叛乱者被迫投降.
5. Do you think the President will give in to the terrorists' demand?
你认为总统会对恐怖分子的要求让步吗?
6. He will give in to his opponent's claim rather than wrangle over a disputed point.
他会向对手的要求让步,而不会因争议点而大声争论.
7. The enemy were forced to give in.
敌人被迫投降.
8. Don't give in now,' she urged.
‘先别认输,’她鼓励道.
give away:
vi. 送掉(泄露,放弃,分配,出卖)
Examples:
1. Don't give away to the public when we will start.
不要向公众泄露我们出发的日期.
2. He decide to give away everything he possessed and become a monk.
他决定放弃他所有的一切,出家为僧.
3. He was given away by one of his accomplices.
他被他的一个同谋者出卖了.
4. He would rather give away a point than claim an advantage.
他宁愿送分数,也不愿要求利益.
5. He wants to give away all his modern possessions and return to nature.
他要舍弃一切时髦的东西而归真返璞.
keep up:
保持,继续,维持
Examples:
1. The enemy kept up their bombardment day and night.
敌军一直日夜不停地狂轰滥炸.
2. The high cost of raw materials is keeping prices up.
原料费用昂贵使得产品价格居高不下.
3. The house is becoming too expensive for them to keep up.
他们的房子维修费用贵得越来越修不起了.
4. I can't keep up with all the changes in computer technology.
计算机技术的各种改进有些我已跟不上了.
5. Workers' incomes are not keeping up with inflation.
工人的收入赶不上通货膨胀.
6. Let's hope the sunny weather keeps up for Saturday's tennis match.
但愿星期六网球比赛时还是这样的好天气.
7. Slow down I can't keep up (with you)!
慢点, 我跟不上（你）了!
8. You're all doing a splendid job; keep up the good work!
你们干得都很出色, 要坚持下去!
catch up:
赶上
Examples:
1. He shut himself away for a month to catch up on his academic work.
他与世隔绝一个月,力图把功课赶上去.
2. I have to work hard to catch up with the other students.
要想赶上其他同学, 我得特别努力才行.
3. We have done all we could to catch up with them.
我们已经尽了一切可能来赶上他们.
4. He walked too slowly to catch up with me.
他走得太慢而不能跟上我.
5. We'll do all we can to catch up the world level.
我们会尽力来达到世界水平.
6. She walked too slowly to catch up with us.
她走得太慢,跟不上我们.
7. Staff must stay behind after hours to catch up on their work.
下班后工作人员需要留下来把工作赶完.
8. Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
他开始显出年老体衰的样子了.
do up:
a. 修缮(刷新,收拾,使整洁)
Examples:
1. If we decide to buy the cottage we'll have to do it up.
我们若决定购买这座别墅,就得重新进行装修.
2. She was carrying a parcel of books done up in brown paper.
她提 一个棕色的纸包,里面是书.
3. She asked me to do up her dress for her at the back.
她要我给她把衣服从后面系上.
4. We're having the kitchen done up.
我们正用现代化设备装修厨房.
5. This skirt does up at the back.
这条裙子是在后面系扣的.
6. He never bothers to do his jacket up.
他总是不愿意系外衣的钮扣.
7. At camp, the boys have to do up their own cabins.
在营地, 男孩们不得不自己打扫小屋.
take up:
vi. 拿起(开始,从事,吸取,接纳)
Examples:
1. I must take you up on that point.
我一定要就那个问题和你辩论.
2. She took up the narrative where John had left off.
她接著讲约翰未讲完的故事.
3. She's taken up with an unemployed actor.
她跟一个失业的男演员混得很熟了.
4. I'd like to take you up on what you said about unemployment.
对於你谈过的失业情况,我想向你提出问题.
5. This table takes up too much room.
这张桌子太占地方了.
6. Blotting-paper takes up ink.
吸墨纸能吸墨水.
7. This chapter takes up where the last one left off.
本章接续上一章谈到的内容.
8. She takes up her duties/responsibilities next week.
她下周开始履行职责.
let in:
让...进入,放...进来
Examples:
1. Are you going to let them in on the plans?
你是否打算让他们知道这些计划?
2. You're letting yourself in for trouble by buying that rusty old car.
你买那辆生了 的旧汽车是自找麻烦.
3. This skirt needs letting in at the waist.
这裙子的腰部需要改瘦.
4. Open the window and let in some fresh air.
打开窗户,让新鲜的空气进来.
5. The interstices between the bricks let in cold air.
冷空气透过砖缝进入室内.
6. The roof let in the rain.
屋顶漏雨.
drop in:
顺便走访(某人)
Examples:
1. Drop in and see us when you're next in London.
到伦敦时顺便来看我.
2. The government has to calculate the likely effects on revenues of a big drop in the oil price.
政府必须估算出油价大幅度下降对财政收入可能产生的影响.
3. The factory has laid off workers because of the drop in sales.
因为销售额减少, 工厂解雇了一批工人.
4. Please drop in for tea.
请顺便来喝杯茶.
5. Let's drop in on Nick when we're in Bristol, shall we?
咱们在布里斯托尔的时候,去看看尼克,好吗?
6. Aid to the Third World is at present little more than a drop in the ocean.
目前对第三世界的援助不过是杯水车薪.
vt. 涉及(指的是,提作,参考,适用于)
Examples:
1. It can also refer to a conflict or disagreement, often involving violence.
这个词还可指冲突或不和,常涉及暴力行动.
2. A unit of work that is defined by a user and that is to be accomplished by a computer. Loosely, the term"job" is sometimes used to refer to a representation of a job. This representation may include a set of computer programs, files, and control statements to the operating system.
由用户定义让计算机去完成的一种工作单位.习惯上说,“作业”这个术语通常指的是作业的一种表述,这种表述可以包括一组计算机程序、一组文卷及一些给操作系统下达命令的控制语句.
3. For netmeeting instructions refer to microsoft's documentation or online help.
关于NetMeeting指南,可参考Microsoft文档或在线帮助.
4. The new law does not refer to land used for farming.
这条新的法律不适用于农用土地.
5. For further particulars, please refer to Chapter Ten.
详情请看第10章.
6. Don't refer to this matter again, please.
请不要再提这件事了.
keep to:
坚持,遵守,信守
Examples:
1. Keeping to a strict diet is a question of mind over matter.
坚持某一规定饮食,是毅力能否战胜物质诱惑的问题.
2. In England traffic must keep to the left.
在英国,车辆必须靠左行驶.
3. They keep to the custom of having their marriages only in May.
他们固守传统, 只在五月举行婚礼.
4. Things will only work out if we all keep to the plan.
只有大家执行计划, 事情才能成功.
5. She's old and infirm and has to keep to the house.
她因年老体弱而足不出户.
6. If we can't keep to the schedule, we'll be in (a lot of) trouble.
我们不按时完成计画就要倒（大）霉了.
7. Keep to the track the moor is very boggy around here.
不要偏离车道--这一带沼泽地多.
8. Keep to the path or you'll lose your way.
沿著这条小道走, 否则就要迷路.
point to: 指向
Examples:
1. She needs to win this point to level the score.
她要赢得这一分才能将比分扳平.
2. He pointed to a tower on the distant horizon.
他指向远处地平线上的一座塔.
3. I can't point to any one particular reason for it.
那件事我找不出具体原因来.
4. In word processing, the ability to define information so as to move it from one point to another within a text element or into another text element, or to edit it.
在字（词）处理技术中,定义信息的一种能力,以便将该信息从正文部分的一点移到另一点或移入另一个正文部分中或进行编辑.
set up:vi. 建立
Examples:
1. The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.
华尔街金融滑坡引起世界股票市场的连锁反应.
2. A hot drink will soon set you up.
你喝杯热饮料马上就精神了.
3. A fund will be set up for the dead men's families.
抚恤死难工人家属的基金会即将建立起来.
4. A week in the country will set her up nicely after her operation.
她手术后在郊外住上一个星期一定能复原.
5. He likes to set himself up as an intellectual.
他喜欢自命为知识分子.
6. How long will it take to set up the projector?
把这个放映机安放好需要多长时间?
7. Her father set her up in business.
她父亲出钱帮她创业.
8. His father set him up as a bookseller.
他父亲资助他做了书商.
make up:
n. 弥补, 虚构, 缝制, 整理, 包装, 和解, 编辑, 化妆,补足,拼凑, 做, 制造,创造, 起草, 制定, 设置, 征收, 准备
Examples:
1. I tried to make up for my loss.
我力图补偿我的损失.
2. No benefactions and research endowments can make up for the change in character which the city has suffered.
任何捐款和研究基金也弥补不了这个大学城所遭受的特性的变化.
3. Pay increases will not always make up for poor working conditions.
工资的增长并不总能够弥补恶劣的工作环境之不足.
4. Saying you are sorry won't make up the damage of breaking the vase.
光说对不起补偿不了你打破花瓶的损失.
5. Let's make up.
让我们言归于好吧.
6. She tired to make up to the boss.
她想讨好老板.
7. I can't make up my mind.
我下不了决心.
8. Farm workers make up only a small section of the population.
农民只占人口的一小部分.
take up:
vi. 拿起(开始,从事,吸取,接纳)
Examples:
1. I must take you up on that point.
我一定要就那个问题和你辩论.
2. She took up the narrative where John had left off.
她接著讲约翰未讲完的故事.
3. She's taken up with an unemployed actor.
她跟一个失业的男演员混得很熟了.
4. I'd like to take you up on what you said about unemployment.
对於你谈过的失业情况,我想向你提出问题.
5. This table takes up too much room.
这张桌子太占地方了.
6. Blotting-paper takes up ink.
吸墨纸能吸墨水.
7. This chapter takes up where the last one left off.
本章接续上一章谈到的内容.
send up:
vi. 提出(上升,检举,提高)
Examples:
1. Any increase in production costs is bound to send up prices.
生产成本的增加必定使价格上涨.
2. As soon as you get to the assembly point send up a red flare.
你们一到达集合地点马上发射一颗红色的信号弹.
3. Did you know that Peter was sent up for ten years?
你知道彼得被判处10年徒刑吗?
join to:
vt. 把两个东西接在一起
Examples:
1. Two widths of cloth were joined to make the curtain.
是用两幅布料拼成的这个帘子.
2. A part or an organ, such as an arm, a leg, a tail, or a fin, that is joined to the axis or trunk of a body.
附器,附肢与身体的轴或躯干相连的部位或器官,如胳膊、腿、尾或鳍
join up:
联合起来,联接起来
Examples:
1. Nowadays, people can join up each other by telephone.
现在人们能通过电话互相联系了.
2. We both joined up in 1939.
我们俩都是1939年入伍的.
unite with:
v. 联合, 混合
Examples:
1. The more of the masses we unite with, the better.
我们联合起来的群众越多,就越有利.
connect with:
vt. 联系(接触)
Examples:
1. One thing that is related to or connected with another.
相配物与另一种东西有关系或有联系的东西
2. The train is timed to connect with the ferry.
火车时刻编排得可与渡轮运行时刻衔接.
3. Where does the cooker connect with the gas-pipe?
煤气炉在什麽地方与煤气管道衔接?
4. The two pipes which connect with the sewer have been blocked up for a month.
这两条与下水道相连的管子已经堵了一个月.
go after:
追逐,追求
Examples:
1. What are you going after?
你在追求什么?
2. If Saddam defies the ultimatum, the anti-Iraq allies who fought Saddam in the Gulf War two years ago could retaliated by bombing his missiles–or up the ante and go after Iraqi air bases or was planes.
如果萨达姆公开拒绝最后通牒,两年以前在海弯战争中与萨达姆作战的反伊拉克盟国可能轰炸他的导弹以为报复——或提高赌注攻击伊拉克空军基地或战机.
3. I've decided to go after that job in Ohio.
我决定力争得到俄亥俄州的那份工作.
go against:
vt. 违反(有利于)
Examples:
1. He went against the advice of his colleagues and resigned.
他不顾同事的劝告辞了职.
2. Paying for hospital treatment goes against her socialist principles.
付给医院医疗费是有违她的社会主义原则的.
3. His thinking goes against all logic.
他的思维完全不合逻辑.
4. The jury's verdict went against him.
陪审团裁断他有罪.
5. The war is going against us.
这场战争对我们很不利.
6. Don't go against your parents/your parents' wishes.
不要违背父母的意愿.
7. Don't do anything that should go against his will.
不要做违背他心意的事.
8. Teenagers often go against the stream.
青少年经常反潮流而动.
go in for:
a. 赞成(参加,从事)
Examples:
1. Most girls do not go in for rough games.
大多数女孩子不参加粗野的游戏.
2. Many people went in for writing, music, dramatics and similar activities.
很多人从事绘画、音乐、演剧和其他类似活动.
3. He must have have a magnificient build before his stomach go in for a career of its own.
当他的肚子还未酷爱其份内的工作放开量大吃大喝）之前,他一定已经有了副强健的体格.
4. I don't go in for loud popular music.
我不喜欢喧闹的流行音乐.
go on with:
继续
Examples:
1. I will go on with my work unless I get the order to the contrary.
我将继续工作直到我得到相反的命令.
2. Please go on with your story.
请继续讲你的故事.
3. Now that you have already been at this level in your research work, you should go on with it.
既然你的科研工作已达到这个水平,你应该继续下去.
4. If we don't finish painting the kitchen today, we can go on with it tomorrow.
要是今天厨房粉刷不完, 明天可以接著干.
give off:
发出(光等)
v. 放出,排出
Examples:
1. All the radioactive materials give off the harmful radioactive which can be deadly at high levels.
所有这些放射性材料都放出有害的射线,小则致癌,大能致死.
2. When wine is fermented it gives off bubbles of gas.
酒发酵时会放出气泡.
3. As motor vehicles burn fuel, they give off carbon monoxide as a waste.
在汽车燃烧燃料时,产生废气—一氧化碳.
4. Physicists are studying new ways of generating electricity with less damage to the environment. In the meantime, many power plants are being modernized to give off less polluting material.
物理学家们正在研究对环境危害少的发电新方法,与此同时,许多发电厂也在实现现代化以减少污染物质的释放量.
give out:
分发
Examples:
1. The teacher gave out the examination papers.
教师发了考卷.
2. After a month their food supplies gave out.
过了一个月, 他们的食物已消耗殆尽.
3. The radiator is giving out a lot of heat.
散热器释放出很多热量.
4. One of the plane's engines gave out in mid-Atlantic.
飞机在大西洋中部飞行时, 其中一个发动机出了故障.
5. Her patience finally gave out.
她终於失去了耐性.
6. It was given out that the President had been shot.
据称总统受到枪击.
7. The news of the President's death was given out in a radio broadcast.
总统逝世的消息已在电台上播出了.
8. He has refused to give out any information on the matter.
他已拒绝发表有关此事的任何消息.
give in:
屈服,让步
Examples:
1. She's a gutsy player, she never gives in.
她是个勇敢的选手, 从不屈服.
2. The authorities showed no signs of giving in to the kidnapper's demands.
当局对绑架者的要求丝毫没有让步的迹象.
3. Please give your examination papers in (to the teacher) when you've finished.
考卷答完后请上交（给老师）.
4. The rebels were forced to give in.
叛乱者被迫投降.
5. Do you think the President will give in to the terrorists' demand?
你认为总统会对恐怖分子的要求让步吗?
6. He will give in to his opponent's claim rather than wrangle over a disputed point.
他会向对手的要求让步,而不会因争议点而大声争论.
7. The enemy were forced to give in.
敌人被迫投降.
8. Don't give in now,' she urged.
‘先别认输,’她鼓励道.
give away:
vi. 送掉(泄露,放弃,分配,出卖)
Examples:
1. Don't give away to the public when we will start.
不要向公众泄露我们出发的日期.
2. He decide to give away everything he possessed and become a monk.
他决定放弃他所有的一切,出家为僧.
3. He was given away by one of his accomplices.
他被他的一个同谋者出卖了.
4. He would rather give away a point than claim an advantage.
他宁愿送分数,也不愿要求利益.
5. He wants to give away all his modern possessions and return to nature.
他要舍弃一切时髦的东西而归真返璞.
keep up:
保持,继续,维持
Examples:
1. The enemy kept up their bombardment day and night.
敌军一直日夜不停地狂轰滥炸.
2. The high cost of raw materials is keeping prices up.
原料费用昂贵使得产品价格居高不下.
3. The house is becoming too expensive for them to keep up.
他们的房子维修费用贵得越来越修不起了.
4. I can't keep up with all the changes in computer technology.
计算机技术的各种改进有些我已跟不上了.
5. Workers' incomes are not keeping up with inflation.
工人的收入赶不上通货膨胀.
6. Let's hope the sunny weather keeps up for Saturday's tennis match.
但愿星期六网球比赛时还是这样的好天气.
7. Slow down I can't keep up (with you)!
慢点, 我跟不上（你）了!
8. You're all doing a splendid job; keep up the good work!
你们干得都很出色, 要坚持下去!
catch up:
赶上
Examples:
1. He shut himself away for a month to catch up on his academic work.
他与世隔绝一个月,力图把功课赶上去.
2. I have to work hard to catch up with the other students.
要想赶上其他同学, 我得特别努力才行.
3. We have done all we could to catch up with them.
我们已经尽了一切可能来赶上他们.
4. He walked too slowly to catch up with me.
他走得太慢而不能跟上我.
5. We'll do all we can to catch up the world level.
我们会尽力来达到世界水平.
6. She walked too slowly to catch up with us.
她走得太慢,跟不上我们.
7. Staff must stay behind after hours to catch up on their work.
下班后工作人员需要留下来把工作赶完.
8. Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
他开始显出年老体衰的样子了.
do up:
a. 修缮(刷新,收拾,使整洁)
Examples:
1. If we decide to buy the cottage we'll have to do it up.
我们若决定购买这座别墅,就得重新进行装修.
2. She was carrying a parcel of books done up in brown paper.
她提 一个棕色的纸包,里面是书.
3. She asked me to do up her dress for her at the back.
她要我给她把衣服从后面系上.
4. We're having the kitchen done up.
我们正用现代化设备装修厨房.
5. This skirt does up at the back.
这条裙子是在后面系扣的.
6. He never bothers to do his jacket up.
他总是不愿意系外衣的钮扣.
7. At camp, the boys have to do up their own cabins.
在营地, 男孩们不得不自己打扫小屋.
take up:
vi. 拿起(开始,从事,吸取,接纳)
Examples:
1. I must take you up on that point.
我一定要就那个问题和你辩论.
2. She took up the narrative where John had left off.
她接著讲约翰未讲完的故事.
3. She's taken up with an unemployed actor.
她跟一个失业的男演员混得很熟了.
4. I'd like to take you up on what you said about unemployment.
对於你谈过的失业情况,我想向你提出问题.
5. This table takes up too much room.
这张桌子太占地方了.
6. Blotting-paper takes up ink.
吸墨纸能吸墨水.
7. This chapter takes up where the last one left off.
本章接续上一章谈到的内容.
8. She takes up her duties/responsibilities next week.
她下周开始履行职责.
let in:
让...进入,放...进来
Examples:
1. Are you going to let them in on the plans?
你是否打算让他们知道这些计划?
2. You're letting yourself in for trouble by buying that rusty old car.
你买那辆生了 的旧汽车是自找麻烦.
3. This skirt needs letting in at the waist.
这裙子的腰部需要改瘦.
4. Open the window and let in some fresh air.
打开窗户,让新鲜的空气进来.
5. The interstices between the bricks let in cold air.
冷空气透过砖缝进入室内.
6. The roof let in the rain.
屋顶漏雨.
drop in:
顺便走访(某人)
Examples:
1. Drop in and see us when you're next in London.
到伦敦时顺便来看我.
2. The government has to calculate the likely effects on revenues of a big drop in the oil price.
政府必须估算出油价大幅度下降对财政收入可能产生的影响.
3. The factory has laid off workers because of the drop in sales.
因为销售额减少, 工厂解雇了一批工人.
4. Please drop in for tea.
请顺便来喝杯茶.
5. Let's drop in on Nick when we're in Bristol, shall we?
咱们在布里斯托尔的时候,去看看尼克,好吗?
6. Aid to the Third World is at present little more than a drop in the ocean.
目前对第三世界的援助不过是杯水车薪.
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