Noun
- fake-out (= A deception or deliberate misrepresentation; a bluff, scam, or trick)
- gadget
- gizmo
- aboveground pool
- junior/middle/senior management
- manual/verbal dexterity
- personal electronics
- chisel
- (on the) housephone(= a telephone that can only be used to make calls within a building, especially a hotel)
- lunch hour
- stats (= statistics)
- a bar of soap
- parasailing (= a sport in which you wear a parachute and are pulled behind a motor boat so that you fly through the air)
- sb’s take (on sth) (= someone’s opinion about a situation or idea)
- landline (座机）
- gym class (体操班）
- plywood (层板）
- hairdresser
- sanctuary (= an area for birds or animals where they are protected and cannot be hunted)
- cobblestone (= a small round stone set in the ground, especially in the past, to make a hard surface for a road)
- a winning hand (一手好牌）
- roster (= 1. a list of the names of people on a sports team, in an organization etc 2. a list that shows when each person in a group must do a particular job)
- (a huge) entrance fee (入会费）
- applicant
- with/in hindsight (= the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened)
- sustenance
It was a fake-out to make sure their kids got a spot.
The job cuts are concentrated on senior and middle management.
If you look on the duty roster, you’ll see when you are working.
The club has outstanding players on the roster.
With the benefit/wisdom of hindsight, it’s easy to criticize
Verb
- strangle (= to kill someone by pressing their throat with your hands, a rope etc)
- underachieve (= to do less well than you could or should)
- overthink
- crap (= to pass waste matter from your bowels)
- finish up sth (= to complete sth)
- set sb/sth apart from
- perk up (= to become more cheerful, active, and interested in what is happening around you, or to make someone feel this way)
- fall for sth (= to be tricked into believing something that is not true)
- fall for sb (= to start to love someone)
- fall for a place (= to like a place as soon as you see it)
- sneak up on/behind (= to come near someone very quietly, so that they do not see you until you reach them)
- skimp on (= to use less of something than is necessary)
- crack up (= to become unable to think or behave sensibly because you have too many problems or too much work 崩溃)
- outlast (= to continue to exist or be effective for a longer time than something else)
- break (= if you break unpleasant news to someone, you tell it to them)
- color in (= to use coloured pencils to put colours inside the lines of a picture)
- carve sth out of/ from sth
- go over (= to think very carefully about something)
- blow (= to lose a good opportunity by making a mistake or by being careless)
- tick sb off (= to annoy someone)
Like a lot of boys his age, he’s underachieving.
She seemed kind of tired, but she perked up when Helen came over.
There’s no doubt coffee perks you up.
It’s vital not to skimp on staff training.
I had gone over and over what happened in my mind.
I was going over the plan for our new dance studio.
Don’t sneak up on me like that.
How is she not cracking up there?
A leather sofa will usually outlast a cloth one.
We’ve blown our chances of getting that contract
I’d be plenty ticked off.
Her attitude is really ticking me off.
Adjective + Adverb
- underachieving
- unbeatable (= something that is unbeatable is the best of its kind)
- hoity-toity (= snobbish)
- soon-to-be
- obnoxious (= very offensive, unpleasant, or rude)
- mellow (= not strict, relaxed, pleasant, smooth)
- chancy (= not certain, or involving a lot of risk) [risky]
- interracial (= between different races of people) interracial marriage
- outraged
Collocation (verb+noun)
- beat (dad’s) record
- send a message to someone
- surf on the internet
- check (football) stats
- contribute to the society
Collocation (adj+noun)
- adoptive parents
- minority baby
- comfort level
- mellow music
- competitive advantage
It’s the first that being gay is a competitive advantage.
Collocation (adv+verb)
Phrase + Idiom
- be locked in/into sth (= if you are locked in a situation, you cannot get out of it)
- way to go! (= used to tell someone that they have done something very well or achieved something special)
- you have to hand it to sb (= used to say that you admire someone)
- cut corners (= to save time, money, or energy by doing things quickly and not as carefully as you should)
- get to the point
- between you and me
- compliment sb on sth (= to say something nice to someone in order to praise them)
- I don’t buy it
- put somebody out (= to make extra work or cause problems for someone)
- get in someone’s head (= to succeed in making someone else think or worry too much about something, in a way that makes them lose confidence)
- put one over on sb (= to trick someone)
The two groups are locked in a vicious cycle of killing.
The company is locked into a five-year contract
You have to hand it to her. She’s really made a success of that company.
Bob complimented me on my new hairstyle
Mary can’t come to dinner tonight. She hopes it won’t put you out.
You got in my head about my mom.
You have the old-man hearing.
We have the young ears.
I don’t get how one dog keeps you awake when you grew up sleeping through cockfight and revolution.
That could be annoying.
Don’t go starting things.
We agree to wait till next year.
We have got to get her into school, or else she’s gonna fall behind.
Don’t you think I know that?
Totally with you
You are so involved with your little gizmos.
What are you doing that’s so important?
What’s a good preschool?
Why the interest?
My kids are middle management materials at best.
She can wait another year.
That’s all she’s gonna want to do anyway.
I can probably get you an interview.
You can’t get in there unless you know somebody on the board.
