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GRE高分必备短语搭配增补短语：
start out 开始做…
释：If you start out by doing something, you do it at the beginning of an activity.
例：We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector.
我们先研究了让私营企业投资铁路等大型项目的方式。
take A for B 把…错当成
释：If you take someone for something, you believe wrongly that they are that thing.
例：She had taken him for a journalist.
她把他错当成记者了。
acquaint with 熟悉
释：If you acquaint someone with something, you tell them about it so that they know it. If you acquaint yourself with something, you learn about it.
例：Its purpose is to acquaint trainees with the work of department heads.
其目的是让受训人熟悉各部门主管的工作。
delegate to 授权，委派（做）
释：If you are delegated to do something, you are given the duty of acting on someone else's behalf by making decisions, voting, or doing some particular work.
例：Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft settlement.
现在已经委派官员着手起草解决方案。
blind alley 困境
释：If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
例：The line of reasoning will only lead you up another blind alley.
那种推理方法只会把你引进另一条死胡同。
exercise over 控制
释：If you exercise over for something, you control that thing.
例：Can't you exercise your influence over the boy to get him to behave better?
难道你不能对这个孩子严加管教，让他规矩点吗?
in the course of 在…期间
释：If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
例：In the course of the 1930s, steel production in Britain approximately doubled.
在20世纪30年代，英国的钢铁产量几乎翻了一番。
stand out of the pack 鹤立鸡群
释：If someone or something stands out of the pack, that person or thing is much better or much more important than others of the same kind.
例：He played the violin, and he stood out from the pack.
他演奏了小提琴，在其他乐师中鹤立鸡群。
at best 顶多，充其量
释：If you say something at best, you mean that thing is under the most favorable circumstances.
例：This policy, they say, is at bestconfused and at worst non-existent.
有人说这项政策往好里说是混乱不堪，往坏里说就是形同虚设。
be obligated to 有义务…
释：If you feel obligated to do something, you feel that it is your duty to do it. If you are obligated to someone, you feel that it is your duty to look after them.
例：Citizens are obligated to defend their interests and that of the state.
自觉维护祖国和人民的利益是每个公民应尽的义务。
regardless of 不管,不顾…
释：If something happens regardless of something else, it is not affected or influenced at all by that other thing.
例：The fields give high and stable yields regardless of climatic circumstances.
不管天气条件如何，这块地总是保持稳产高产。
pass through 通过；经历…
释：If someone pass through a place or something, you mean making a passage or journey from one place to another or experiencing it.
例：Traffic cannot pass through the square until the mass meeting is over.
群众大会结束后，广场始能通行。
step in 介入 (棘手问题)
释：If you step in, you get involved in a difficult situation because you think you can or should help with it.
例：There are circumstances in which the State must step in to protect children.
有些情况下，国家必须出面保护儿童。
make up for 弥补
释：To make up for a bad experience or the loss of something means to make the situation better or make the person involved happier.
例：Mrs Hardie hurried to make up for her tactlessness by asking her guest about his holiday.
哈迪夫人赶紧问客人假期过得怎么样，替自己的言不得体打圆场。
in other words 换句话说；就是说
释：To put something in other words means to introduce more information about the same subject you are discussing at a different angle.
例：The mobile library services have been reorganized — in other words, they visit fewer places.
流动图书馆服务重新作了安排——换句话说，他们去的地方减少了。
be wont to 习惯于…
释：If someone is wont to do something, they often or regularly do it.
例：It was the wont to rank science among the highest pursuits.
把科学列为最高尚的事业已是习惯之举。
clean up 肃清(犯罪、腐败等)…
释：If the police or authorities clean up a place or area of activity, they make it free from crime, corruption, and other unacceptable forms of behavior.
例：Whenever a new police chief take office, he or she routinely promises to clean up the corruption force.
每当新任警察局长上任，他都会惯例承诺肃清腐败力量。
gravitate to 被吸引到；受吸引而参加…
释：If you gravitate to a particular place, thing, or activity, you are attracted by it and go to it or get involved in it.
例：The multitaskers did not appear to gravitate to entertainment websites.
电视这个多能手似乎没有转向娱乐网站。
transform into 改变;改造
释：To transform something into something else means to change or convert it into that thing.
例：They hope to find bonanza of materials curbside, which they will transform into art.
他们希望找到大量的被丢弃的材料，将其转化为艺术。
from scratch 从零开始
释：To do something from scratch means that you do it from a point at which nothing has been done ahead of time or from beginning.
例：One can hardly believe that this paper mill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
很难相信这个造纸厂仅仅是在几年前白手起家办起来的。
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发表于 2015-1-14 20:55:56
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