【正文】 side will be responsible for all the consequences arising the members of the mittee are responsible directly to the )undertake/take up 承擔某個特定任務，擔負起做……事的責任，前者為書面，后者為口語A friend undertook to tape the proceedings at the opening of the has taken up too )answer for, be answerable for, 強調責任be in control, be in one’s hands, 側重對……的管理see about, see to, call the shots, 安排或關照，后者可直譯為“發(fā)號施令”，引申為對……事全權負責rest on/upon one’s shoulders，句型。這些詞組多見于非正式場合。I’ll see to matter is in your task rested squarely on our ’m calling the shots 決心做…… 1)to determine 程度較強。都是下定決心，決心干某事的意思。Everybody of us must make a point of being Wang made it a point to learn ten new words every Wang made it a point of learning ten new words every ’ s made up his mind to learn English )to resolve, to make a resolve, to be resolved, to make good ，多用于書面語的表達。He pledged to plete his father’s unfinished task, whatever the cost might pledged themselves to save their )to set one’s mind on sth, /doing sth., to be set on/upon doing 。有堅定不移的語義 We vow to build up our factory and make it a strong modern enterprise by the year is under a vow to drink no )我們學過的一些簡單表達法：shall, 簡單實用。We shall be the champions!be ready to, 由“準備”這個意義引申。u 發(fā)生happen, occur 1)happen,強調偶然性的色彩，usually by 暗示“某種現(xiàn)象的發(fā)生往往與人們的思想活動或一定的客觀規(guī)律有關。happen為通用語體詞，occur則為書面語體詞，多用于正式場合。前者口筆語通用，后者多用于口語。The year 1949 saw a great change in city has seen quite a few witness many a great historic year 1976 witness many earthshaking events in )succeed 繼……之后，表示一系列事物或現(xiàn)象的連續(xù)發(fā)生。manifest oneself, 多指事物、現(xiàn)象的顯露 be in the wind強調即將發(fā)生。指出關鍵所在：決定于，取決于。1)lie in, lie with, lie in the fact that 指出關鍵所在The remedy lies in does the difficulty lie? It lies in the lack of full fundamental way our for agriculture lies in difficulty lies in the fact that we don’t know lies with his whether he will study or )consist in: have…as the chief or only element Leadership consists in farsightedness and consists in consists in serving the people strength consists not only in national )stem from 流行于美國英語中的說法。有追根溯源的隱含意味。正是，就是的意思。The point in dispute is the title to this newlyfound problem is how to reduce trouble is that we don’t know his book, the function of television is to edify, not to 安排1)arrange 有事先作好準備的意思。后者有克服困難想方設法做到的隱含意味。原意是關照。I’ll see to it 。前者尤用在服務性句子中。Concerts were laid on(=arranged)for the foreign work for tomorrow is all laid out.(=is all well arranged)5)schedule 強調安排工作的時間性、程序性。What’s your schedule for tomorrow? We want to schedule a match for the next )get up, work things, 前者是褒義短語，強調工作做得井井有條。后者強調精心使用。尤指復雜狀態(tài)或事態(tài)。Special cases, of course, need special are isolated rule does not reach the are two different is the practice in such cases? 3)matter, affair or things Matter,多指重要的事情或情況Affair通常用復數形式，且不加任何冠詞，多指與日常公事有關的情況。前兩者有書面語色彩。We must determine working policies in the light of actual are changing all the uniformity should be imposed since conditions vary from place to view of the abovementioned facts, we wish to make the following )circumstances 周圍的事態(tài)狀態(tài)。Under no circumstances In/under certain circumstances In the present/prevailing circumstances Under such circumstances Under similar circumstances In these circumstances only three courses are open to the circumstances we had to give up the such circumstances we can’t afford to wait any )略而不譯關于那件事的情況，請你告訴我。The patient is getting worse this 管理管理生產（公司。A government that is badly administered can never be expected to last our country it is people who administer the affairs of the many Japanese homes the funds/the financial affairs are administered by the )run=be in the charge of 不管是對business還是affairs的管理，均可以用run表示。有明顯的口語色彩。兩者都是權力性管理。注意這句話：The country is ruled but not fact, the city is governed by new president governs the beautiful headmaster ruled the school with a firm )control/have control over 突出控制look after,突出關照料理 regulate, 強調“調節(jié)” supervise,，突出督察operate，作為“管理”的對等詞，是美國人常用的表達法。My grandfather has seen all manner of manner of things were manner of questions, all manner of excuses for being late/absence Of every description/of all descriptions The department store has goods of all are people of all library has magazines of every )various, a variety of,側重于指一種東西的兩個或多個不同的品種，或不同的表現(xiàn)形式，或同一件事在細節(jié)上的差別。Various accounts of the incident were interpretations were attempted to account for the experimental result but with no has a variety of )diverse, a diversity,強調性質、品質或形式上的全然不同。The play? It was a mixed parts were a deadly bore, but others were mixed 大概1)probably, presumably, maybe有……的可能性。2)about, approximate, approximately, 3)or so, or thereabout, in the rough, more or less, before or after 4)a dozen or so The teacher is forty or thereabout The dictionary is worth ten yuan in the still have more or less twenty pages to ’ll be through with our work before or after the end of this )some, some around,后者為美國用法。yet few people have more than the vaguest acquaintance with his living 非常1)very, very much greatly, terribly, deeply, awfully, highly, frightfully, simply, badly, vastly, extremely, immensely, … We need this dictionary am awfully sorry for )注意：most在某些情況下也有非常的意思，不用定冠詞the的時候。并不表示最高程度，而是非常的意思。相當于我們中國人說“極其”。但在20世紀現(xiàn)代英美文學作品當中，這些慣用語早已被廣泛使用。8)你可以使用一些詞語，讓表達更生動： They were working as boy was running as enemies are all as tricky as old man was as mad as the Zhang is a storehouse of professor is really a walking mind about man is a back 量詞的使用： 1)一口a mouthful/drink/sip/gulp of water a sip of brandy/tea, a gulp of milk a mouthful/breath of fresh air a mouthful/morsel of food，后者是一小口的意思 taking a deep pull or two of smoke, he said, “…” a suck of wine/smoke/tea，不大的一口。2)一群a crowd/group/host(許多大量)of people, a galaxy of，星系，天河，褒義，想想中文中的“燦若星河”。A galaxy of talents, a galaxy of beauties A troop of, 正在進行中人或動物的群，a swarm of蜂擁而至A multitude of animals/people/islands，不像crowd那樣擁擠，have enough space A throng of people/ film fans，為數眾多的擠在一處。+ gangsters, thieves, robbers, convicts A flock of sheep/geese/ducks/goats/hens…飛鳥家禽