Adapt to (phrasal verb)

　　●To change in order to be better suited to something.

　　Examples:　　

　　1.Most students have little difficulty adapting to college life.　　

　　2.At first, I didn't like the new school, but I quickly adapted to the way things were done there and was soon very happy.

　　With an eye on (idiom)

　　●Focused on a particular thing or area.

　　（着眼於…，意在…）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.With an eye on China, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port.　　

　　2.With an eye on advances in neurology, the hospital announced that it had acquired several new brain-scanning machines.

　　Lay a/the foundation(s) of/for (idiom)

　　●To produce the basic ideas or structures from which something much larger develops.（打下基礎）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.The Anglo-Saxons laid the foundations of the English state.　　

　　2.The two leaders have laid the foundations of a new era in cooperation between their countries.

　　Synergy (noun)

　　●The combined power of a group of things when they are working together that is greater than the total power achieved by each working separately.

　　（協同效應）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.Team work at its best results in a synergy that can be very productive.　　

　　2.We must continue to develop policies that contribute to the continued synergy of all forces.

　　Cover all the bases (idiom)

　　●To do everything necessary to be sure that something is successful.

　　 （面面俱到）

　　Examples:　　

　　1.We need to cover all the bases here—the investigation should explore every avenue.　　

　　2.I covered all the bases by applying to 15 colleges.