自学考试《高级英语》课程的一些重要词组6 高级英语, 自学考试

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Depend upon 确信
You may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I fell an overpowering desire for sleep. 我敢说不管一天的什么时候，写不了多少就很想睡觉
A kind of 表示一种不确定性
Just a kind of dream. 可能就是一个梦吧。
Make for 有助于
I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place.
在那儿我的声誉要比在这里好的多。
At once 同时
Plunge … into …
进入某种状态
Once in bed， when it is time to close the five ports（五官） of knowledge， most folks I know seem to find no difficulty in plunging their earthly parts into oblivion.
Be given to （sth./doing sth.）
有做某事的习惯
He's given to taking long walks.
他非常喜欢长途散步。
Thanks to 由于
Some ski resorts opened early， thanks to a late-October snowstorm.
Take sth to heart 把…放在心上
Take these fables to heart. 用心记住这些故事。
Cast up 计算
…，no casting up the balance of the day‘s pleasure and pain.
Sink into 陷入
leave to （one's） own device 让某人独立处理问题，不支配某人
They sink ， at once， into stupid， heavy slumber， leaving you to your own mental devices.
马上会进入愚蠢的，沉沉的睡眠状态，剩下你自己苦思冥想。
serve turn 适用
The famous old plan of counting sheep jumping over a stile have never serve my turn. （p158）
Come up 偶遇
Make up 捏造，虚构
I have the lonely child‘s habit of making up story and holding conversations with imaginary persons.
Get back恢复
Things will soon get back to normal.
这种情况会马上恢复正常的。
At a time 每次
In so far as 在…范围内
So it is clear what kid of books I wanted to write， in so far as I could be said to want to write books at that time.
Get stuck 卡住，不能动弹
They got stuck in a traffic jam.
Put aside 抛开
At any rate 无论如何，至少
Put aside the need to earn a living， I think there are four great motives for writing， at any rate for writing prose.
先不说写作是为了谋生，我认为有四种写作动机，至少写散文是这样。
Get one‘s own back on 报复
She wanted to get her own back on Liz for ruining her party.
Store sth. up 储备或储存
A squirrel storing up food for the winter.
Strive after 奋斗
Desire to push the world in a certain direction， to alter other people‘s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.