On the order of 大约
equipment costing on the order of a million dollars.
花费近百万美元的设备
in sb‘s place 处于谁的情况
Try to put yourself in my place and think how you would feel.
Get to sb. 影响某人
I has become fashionable to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fast-moving, impatient public.
Feed on sth 受到…滋养
Hatred feeds on envy. 因妒生恨。
Think up 想出
She was trying to think up an excuse
In the shape of 以…的形式
This one was very young, with inexperience even in the shape of his mustache which he had shaved too much on the left side.
他非常年轻,从他胡子的形状看,他很缺乏经验,他左侧的胡子乔得太多了。
Number off 报数
Go away 走开
Draw lots 抽签,抓阄
Go by 遵照
We must draw lots, unless it is thought that we should go by ages.
Get off (with sth.) 免受处罚
got off scot-free. 逍遥法外
picture sth to oneself 想象或设想某事物
This isn‘t the last draw we shall have, and picture to yourselves what it will be like in this cell if we have a privileged class.
Leave sb/sth out of sth 排除在外
Kidd has been left out of the team.
Have it/things/everything one‘s own way
Have it your own way. 按你的意思办吧
Scrap of paper 纸片
Feel for 摸索,寻找
In one‘s favor 占优势
an error in our favor. 对我方有益的错误
force on sb 勉强某人接受某事物
let sth drop 不再做或提某事(人)
Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers, others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip and when thety had drawn one little way from the shoe would let it drop again an choose another.
Break up 结束
Like a game of cards which has gone on too long, he only wanted someone to make a move and break up the table(game)。
Go over (from… ) (to… ) 从一处到另一处
Draw out 抽出
He went over to his roll of bedding and drew out a writing pad.
他走到他的铺盖卷,拿出一打书写纸。
Saving grace 长处,可取之处
Humor is the saving grace of us.
Depend upon 确信
You may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I fell an overpowering desire for sleep. 我敢说不管一天的什么时候,写不了多少就很想睡觉
A kind of 表示一种不确定性
Just a kind of dream. 可能就是一个梦吧。
Make for 有助于
I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place.
在那儿我的声誉要比在这里好的多。
At once 同时
Plunge … into … 进入某种状态
Once in bed, when it is time to close the five ports(五官) of knowledge, most folks I know seem to find no difficulty in plunging their earthly parts into oblivion.
Be given to (sth./doing sth.) 有做某事的习惯
He's given to taking long walks.
他非常喜欢长途散步。
Thanks to 由于
Some ski resorts opened early, thanks to a late-October snowstorm.
Take sth to heart 把…放在心上
Take these fables to heart. 用心记住这些故事。
Cast up 计算
…,no casting up the balance of the day‘s pleasure and pain.
Sink into 陷入
leave to (one's) own device 让某人独立处理问题,不支配某人
They sink , at once, into stupid, heavy slumber, leaving you to your own mental devices.
马上会进入愚蠢的,沉沉的睡眠状态,剩下你自己苦思冥想。
serve turn 适用
The famous old plan of counting sheep jumping over a stile have never serve my turn. (p158)
Come up 偶遇
Make up 捏造,虚构
I have the lonely child‘s habit of making up story and holding conversations with imaginary persons.
Get back恢复
Things will soon get back to normal.
这种情况会马上恢复正常的。
At a time 每次
In so far as 在…范围内
So it is clear what kid of books I wanted to write, in so far as I could be said to want to write books at that time.
Get stuck 卡住,不能动弹
They got stuck in a traffic jam.
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