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時間:2017-09-12 03:15:07來源:大公網

  Turn your back on sb/sth (idiom)

  ●If you turn your back on someone or something, you ignore them, leave them, or reject them.(不理會)

  Examples:  

  1.He said the nation had turned its back on the poor for many years.  

  2.He simply turned his back on them and never gave it a second thought.

  Stand by (phrasal verb)

  ●To be waiting and ready to do something. (準備好隨時行動)

  Examples:  

  1.Could you stand by in case I need help?  

  2.Fire fighters were standing by in case of emergencies.

  Seditious (adj.)

  ●Inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.(煽動性的)

  Examples:  

  1.She was arrested after making a speech that the government considered to be seditious.  

  2.The letter was declared seditious.

  Plunge into sth (phrasal verb)

  ●To suddenly start doing something with energy and enthusiasm, but sometimes without thinking about it first.(投入……,一頭扎進……)

  Examples:  

  1.This was not the time to be plunging into some new business venture.  

  2.Two months before his exams, he suddenly plunged into his studies.

  Destined (adj.)

  ●controlled by fate, and not by humans.(注定)

  Examples:  

  1.These plans are destined to fail.  

  2.Do you think it was destined that we should one day meet?

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