Words Expressions
tear
【语境展示】阅读下面句子，并试着归纳tear的意思及用法。
1. I tore my jeans on the fence.
2. A couple of pages had been torn from the book.
3. The whole family was torn by quarrels.
4. There was a tear in her coat.
5. There were angry tears in Lily’s eyes.
【自我归纳】tear既可作动词也可作名词。
★tear作动词时，意为：①撕裂，扯破（句1）；②撕掉，扯掉（句2）；③深受……之苦的，饱经……摧残的（句3）。
★tear作名词时，意为：①破洞，裂口，裂缝（句4）；②________（常用复数）（句5）。
【即学即练】安神定志写出下面画线单词的词性及意思。
1. He t杭州到千岛湖ore a huge hole in the tent. ________ ________
2. As he listened to the music, his eyes filled with智慧交通建设方案 tears. ________ ________
3. Jesse was torn by anger and worry. ________ ________
4. We can e a滨海城市 tear in his shirt. ________ ________
5. You’ll need to tear the old wallpaper off the walls. ________ ________
confirm
【归纳】confirm是动词，意为：①（尤指提供证据来）证实，证明，确认；②使感觉更强烈，使确信；③批准（职位、协议等），确认，认可。如：
Rearch has confirmed that the risk is higher for women.
The walk in the mountains confirmed his fear of heights.
He was confirmed as captain for the rest of the ason.
Six people have confirmed that they will be attending and ten haven’t replied yet.
【即学即练】翻译下面句子。
1. 这项研究证实了早期的研究结果。
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2. 会议日期还没有最后确定。
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3. 他的话肯定了我的信念，即我们所做的是正确的。
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glare
【语境展示】阅读下面句子，并试着归纳glare的意思及用法。
1. The teacher glared at the troublemaker.
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2. The sun glared out of the blue sky.
3. We could e nothing becau of the glare of the car’s lights.
4. There was an angry glare in the boy’s eyes.
【自我归纳】
★glare作动词时，意为：①怒视，瞪（常与介词________连用）（句1）；②发耀眼的强光（句2）。
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★glare作名词时，意为：①刺眼的强光，令人不快的光（用作不可数名词）（句3）；②怒视的目光，愤怒的表情（用作可数名词）（句4）。
【辨析】glare at, stare at, glance at
★glare at意为“怒目而视，恶狠狠地盯着”，带有生气的感情色彩。如：
He didn’t shout, but just glared at me silently.
★stare at意为“凝视，盯着看”，指由于好奇或感兴趣而目不转睛地看着。如：
The little girl stared at the toys in the window.
★glance at意为“匆匆一看，一瞥”，强调动作的速度很快。如：
On the bus I always manage to glance at the headlines in the newspaper.
【即学即练】用glare at, stare at或glance at的正确形式填空。
1. Children should be taught not to ________ disabled people.
2. On his bicycle, he ________ his watch.
3. They didn’t fight, but stood there ________ one another.
grateful
【语境展示】阅读下面句子，并试着归纳grateful的意思及用法。
1. I’m grateful to have a job at a college that enables me to do what I love.
2. She should be grateful that he was making things easier for her.
3. I was grateful to John for bringing the books.
4. We would be grateful for any information you can give us.
【自我归纳】grateful是形容词，意为“________”，其后可接不定式（句1）或that从句（句2），也可用于be grateful to sb. for doing sth.（句3）或be grateful for sth.（句4）结构。
【即学即练】根据汉语意思补全下面句子（每空一词）。
1. 她应该感谢迈克为她解决了这个难题。
She should ________ ________ ________ Mike has solved the problem for her.
2. 我非常感谢所有老师的帮助。
I ________ ________ ________ ________ all the teachers for their help.
account庞师古
【语境展示】阅读下面句子，并试着归纳account的意思及用法。
1. I opened an account at my bank in your name.
2. She gave her mother a full account of her conversation with the doctor.
3. Eve could give an account of her abnce from school.
4. On account of his youth, he was not allowed to take the nior cour.
5. Take into account the differences between the students’ mother tongue (母语) and the goal language.
6. In English law, a person is accounted innocent until they are proved guilty.
7. Jerry could not account for his foolish mistake.
【自我归纳】
★account作名词时，意为：①________（句1）；②描述，叙述，报告（句2）。常用短语：give an account of解释（理由）（句3）；on account of由于（句4）；take into account把……考虑进去（句5）。
★小冰山account作动词时，意为“认为是，视为”（句6）。常用短语：account for说明……的原因，解释（句7）。
【即学即练】翻译下面句子。
1. 她向警方详细地叙述了所发生的事情。
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2. 评判他的表演时, 不必考虑他的年龄。
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3. 天气不好可能是人来得少的原因。
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upt
【语境展示】阅读下面句子，并试着归纳upt的意思及用法。
1. He asked me not to say anything to upt the old lady.
2. Lucy was upt that her husband didn’t spend more time with her.
3. Sherry was still upt about the argument she’d had with Harry.
4. Richie was very upt to hear that the match had been cancelled.
5. Martha’s stomach was upt for hours after that heavy meal.
【自我归纳】
◆upt作动词时，意为“________”（句1）。
