12月24日做练习记单词：cut short short, cut, 单词, 练习

sumny

The meeting was _____ when the chairman fell ill.
A. put down       B. shut out       C. cut short       D. taken off

本题大意：当懂事长生病时，会议被中断了。
cut short (=interrupt) 打断, 中断：
1) He made a suggestion, but I cut him short. (他提了个建议, 但我打断了他。)

2) He cut short his tour and returned home. (他中断旅行, 回家了。)
shut off (=cut off, interrupt) 切断, 中断; 由指切断供应等,
如：The water was shut off for several hours while the plumber repaired the pipes.

Shut out (=keep out; exclude; prevent form entering) 把......关在外面, 排除, 不让入内：

1) He shut the cat out. (他把猫关在外面。)

2) The law was designed to shut out immigrants. (这项法律旨在拒绝移民入竟。)

3) They shut out the dust by having double windows. (他们用双层窗户防尘。)

4) They begin to speak French, shutting out the boy from their conversation.
(他们讲起法语来, 使这个男孩无法参加他们的谈话。)
put down：放下；记下；平定；估计；归于

如：I put his bad temper down to having had an unhappy childhood.
我把他的坏脾气归之于他有过不幸的童年

taken off：拿走；取下；去掉

俏皮雪人

Excuse me, Madam,but I will have to cut you short, becarse you'll be late for the meeting.