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. My friends Kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. 我的朋友們不斷地向我遞香煙和雪茄?! eep on doing “繼續(xù)做某事”、“反復(fù)做某事”: The child was crying loudly, but he kept on watching TV. 孩子在大聲哭,但他卻一直看電視?! e kept on phoning her. 他不斷地給她打電話?! ?made no effort to hide…他們毫不掩飾地…… make no effort表示“根本不作努力”。我們還可以說: She wrote the letter with/without effort. 她費(fèi)力地/毫不費(fèi)力地寫了那封信。 Georeg made every effort to get/at getting the job. 喬治竭盡全力想得到那份工作?! ?. …it was more than I could bear. ……我再也忍不住了。more than后面跟一個(gè)從句或一個(gè)形容詞時(shí)可以表示“超出”(多用于口語): He was more than pleased with his new room. 他對(duì)自己的新房間極其滿意?! his was more than I had expected. 這超出了我的預(yù)料?! ?as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up ,正如布賴恩指出的那樣,戒煙是世界上最容易的事情。 it為先行主語,代替后面的不定式短語 to give up…point out為固定短語,表示“指出”、“指明”: Why didn’t you point out his mistake to him at that time? 你那時(shí)候?yàn)槭裁床幌蛩赋鏊腻e(cuò)誤? He pointed out that we still had to get a few other things. 他指出我們還需要/得再買一些其他東西。