... than （more是限定词）a. used to say that something is not too much, but exactly right or suitable就是; 正是: •It's no more than you deserve.这完全是你应该得到的。•Eline felt it was no more than her duty to look after her husband.埃林娜觉得照顾丈夫就是她的...
...解时，构成“coax somebody into/out of doing
something”。例如：We had to coax Alan
into going to school.我们只好哄着艾伦去上学。42.coerce（P464）作“to
force someone to do something they do not want to do by threatening them 强制；胁迫；迫使”解时，构成“coe...
...between people in their early twenties in America and France, for
example. But young women in America are almost three
times as likely to die in a fatal car accident
than are women in Britain，France,
Germany and Sweden (which still leaves then less than one
third as likely to die in a crash than
A...
... a computer expert. 他有志成为一位电脑专家。A
gardening expert tells us how to grow plants well. 一位园艺专家教我们种好花草的方法。He
regards himself as an expert. 他自认为是专家。He
needs advice from an expert. 他需要专家的建议。Experts
have differing v...
... write off ( 认为不合适，认为......该勾销)
等。例如：
Can we accept his account as the true
version ? 我们能相信他说的是事实吗？（摘自《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》第9版p.10）
Many of the poor acknowledged him as
their spiritual leader. 许多穷苦人都...
...am
restricted to smoking
two cigarettes a day.我每天只抽两支烟。But after he gets over the shock, he usually resigns himself to his fate and then becomes as happy as
normal boys.=But after he gets over the shock, he is usually resigned to his fate and then becomes as happy as
normal ...
...头上炸裂。 Shanghai may be the recognized
home of the soup dumpling, but food historians will actually point you to the
neighboring canal town of Nanxiang as Xiao long Bao’s birthplace. There
you will find them prepared differently — more dumpling and less soup — and the
wrappers are pre...
...utes of the Pulitze news conference last Monday，第二个是around 1660, but in less than 100 years——都有明确的过去时间，last Monday和around 1660。而《牛津》的例句，The ambulance arrived within minutes of the call being made.是没有类似的时间的，那以上两个问...
...n knowledge that some countries have higher life expectancies than others, but the city you live in can also affect your health.Some cities are hard on their residents. In places with poor city planning, for example Lagos, which was called out recently by the Economist Intelligence Unit, public spac...
...p;fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ.为什么此处...
...g to fog. BA213 次航班因雾延误。（同上）Due / Owing to the bad weather (,) the match was cancelled. 由于天气不好，比赛取消了。（《牛津英语用法指南》第四版439节）We have had to postpone the meeting (,) due / owing to the strike. 由于罢工，我们不得...
...…的发展”。例如：（1）with the help of sb / with sb’s help
We manage , with the help of a nurse who comes daily . 有一位护士每天都来，在她的帮助下，我们勉强应付。（摘自《朗文当代高级英语辞典》第6版）【注意】with
the help of 后面应该接...
... Clinton, has said their relationship constituted a "gross abuse of power" on his part.定语：称他们的关系构成了总统那边的权力的滥用好像也说得通状语：他们的关系在总统那边构成了对权力的滥用we strike the right balance between security and libe...