Lynette’s fantasy daydream
Pull someone back to sth:
Garbage Can:
Silly feud: / Sworn enemy
God-awful:
For days/hours/weeks/years on end:
我们班里最近来了个叫Lily的插班生，她长得很漂亮 ，让我对她心生爱慕，一连好几个星期睡不着觉。
Lily, the recently transferred classmate, was so gorgeous that I kept hanging up on her for weeks on end.
这个经常出现的噩梦让我最近这几年不得安生。
Etiquette: à>Accepted behavior –>business scenario / social gathering. Manners.
On a fixed income:
Nursing home:
Keel over:
Be Presented with sth:
Grasp/ grab:
Life a journey, one that is much better traveled with a companion by our side.
But sometimes we lose we companions along the way, and then the journey becomes unbearable.
In solitude.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Characters are best formed in the stormy billow of the world.
a string of beads used in counting prayers: 念珠
Chopped up / dismembered.
I.D.D/ O.D.D
Identified.
Strayed from the pound.
Horse-trading.
Take the heat off someone/something.
Relieve /reduce pressure/criticism/challenge/ skeptical
Develop your own active vocabulary pool.
When the CEO’s scandal was exposed, the PR team devise a plan to take the heat off the company by releasing a statement apologizing the incident and outlining steps to prevent it from happening again.
Familiar stranger:
Creative destruction
Noble conspiracy
The lawyer tried to take off the heat by presenting evidence that someone else could have committed the crime.
Leads:
Worrying someone sick:
Phrase:
Christian counseling: Focuses on the care of a person as a whole,
Body/soul/spirt
Maintains the values taught in the bible.
spiritual practices:
焦虑、抑郁、成瘾、悲伤和关系问题
Child discipline.
Detention/ expelled:
Flirt with someone: /
hitting on someone / Mass a pass at someone
Do you need a reason beyond the fact that he’s the ice cream man?
Mourn the relationship:
Considerable affection with
Stick-in-the-mud: 二愣子
Hip club: establishment
Pull sth off: / pass sth with flying colors/ hit sth out of the park.
Arthritis[ɑː’θraɪtɪs]：
IDD/ODD: Overdosed.
It turns out that 表语从句的简略形式
Tiffany Lump:
4000-1million
路易斯·康福特·蒂芙尼
Glue / grow attached to someone
Den：
ATM: 借代
With all that passion, isn’t it a shame we’re not having sex?
Rhetorical Question? 反诘/反问？修辞手法？
Go south：decline, deteriorate, fail
Go down the drain:
If…if….and…
Which…which…
Throwing his big guns.
Hysterical:
Far be it…from me to stand in the way of a young man’s dream.
Disclaimer: stating that sth shouldn’t come to pass, or that a person would never do or think a certain thing.
Far be it：远不止于、不到…份上… 扯不上瓜葛，边际
It is far from me to do sth.
Far be it from me to step in, but as your neighbor, I hope that you two would sit down for a heart-to-heart, you know, there’s nothing can’t be solved.
That is a very demanding task, you know I’ve been here for less than 6 months, far be it from me to assume the heavy lifting.
Far be it from me to tell you what to wear. But don’t you think it’s better to something less revealing （Before me 遇见你之前）?
Be that as it may:
Hit the road/trough/market.
Avocado[ˌævə’kɑːdəʊ]：牛油果，又称鳄梨
Guacamole[ˌɡwækə’məʊleɪ]：（鳄梨 色拉酱）
Make up a batch:
{ buy in bulk }
On the frizz: not working properly
Hitch a ride / TAKE A LIFT: 搭顺风车
Third-grade thing to say:
I get the picture:
A close call:
Projection:
Narrator: 实战语法案例
STAGE ONE:
COMPONENTS /ELEMENTS
16 2000
2: presentable:
7000 /1000（高频短语+搭配+词串）
It turns out
It hits me/occurs to me/drowned on me
6123
I find it very
I thought it would be great to do
I figured…
What if…
That being said:
