in a row: happening a number of times, one after another
- Bill Gates lost $6 billion last year, but that didn’t stop him from being the richest man in the world for the 8th year in a row.
doze off: fall into a light sleep
- Before I had time to doze off again, I was disturbed by a rattling of plates and dishes in the rvant’s hall.
- That proved to be my undoing, for I soon got back to my old bad habit of dozing off in front of the screen.
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frail: adj. weak
- Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herlf.
strain: vt.
1) make a situation or relationship more difficult
全力以赴英语- Relations between Tokyo and Washington were further strained by the monetary crisis involving the December 1971 revaluation of the Japane yen.
- 该事件使得两国关系趋于紧张。
(=The incident has strained relations between the two countries.)
2) stretch tightly by pulling
- They strained the wire between two posts.
make ends meet: balance one’s income and expenditure
- It may be difficult at times to make ends meet on your small income.
- It was very difficult for Arthur to make ends meet when his factory was put on a three-day week during the recession.
stretch:
1. vt.
1) make sth. longer, wider or tighter by pulling
- Where can I buy tho things that stretch your shoes?
- A spider’s web can be stretched considerably without weakening.
- 你如果拉橡皮带，它就会伸长。
(=If you stretch a piece of elastic, it becomes much longer.)
2) extend or thrust out (a limb or part of the body) and tighten the muscles
- She went out to stretch her legs after lunch.
- 应付抽筋最有效的方法就是轻柔缓和地去伸展肌肉抽筋的部位。
(=The most effective treatment for muscle cramps is to gently stretch the cramped muscle.)
2. vi. spread out over an area or a period of time; extend
- The ocean stretched as far as they could e on all sides.
- 这条道路穿过沙漠伸向远方。
(=The road stretched out across the dert into the distance.)
Collocation：
stretch one’s legs 散步
stretch a point 做出让步
at a stretch 连续地
at full stretch 竭尽全力
beyond the stretch of … 超出…范围
twist: vt.
1) turn round; revolve
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- Twist the handle to the right and the box will open.
- 我扭过头去把汽车向后倒。
(=I twisted my head round to rever the car.)
2) deliberately give a fal meaning to words, etc.
- The police tried to twist the man’s statement into an admission of guilt.
- 报纸把我的话全都歪曲了。
(=The papers twisted everything I said.)
Pattern:
twist sth. round sth. 使某物缠绕某物
王者周瑜twist sth. into sth. 把某物扭/搓成某物
twist off 扭断；拧开
twist up 定和订的区别扭弯；歪曲
outbreak: n. the sudden or violent start of sth. unwelcome, such as dia
- The area was struck by an outbreak of cholera.
- So violent was his outbreak that they hesitated to intervene.
- 由于战争爆发，这个研究计划搁浅了。
(=The rearch project fetched up becau of the outbreak of the war.)
alien:
1. n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- Immigrant workers were clasd as resident aliens.
- 背井离乡这么久，现在在他自己的国家，他觉得自己像个外人。
(=After being away for so long, he feels like an alien in his own country now.)
2. adj.
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育儿经验分享1) very different from what you are ud to, especially in a way that is difficult to understand or accept
- Their ideas are quite alien to our ways of thinking.
- 残忍完全不合他的本性。
(=Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.)
2) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- After the alien spacecraft had hovered over the park for a short time, it vanished.保留歌词
