重点讲解:
1. hit on
突然想出(主意或解决办法);
eg. After running through the numbers in every possible combination, we finally hit on a solution.
将这些数字进行各种可能的排列组合后,我们终于找到了答案。
eg. She was scared he might hit on the truth.
她非常怕他或许会无意中发现事实真相。
2. pull off
成功完成,做成(困难的事情);
eg. It will be a very, very fine piece of mountaineering if they pull it off.
如果他们能成功,那将是一次非常了不起的登山壮举。
eg. Corporate turnarounds are painful ungainly and notoriously difficult things to pull off.
众所周知,要想完成企业好转的过程是痛苦而艰难的。
3. be serious about
认真的;当真的;真心的;郑重其事的;
eg. He was serious about the matter.
他对于那件事很认真。
eg. That boy is seldom serious about anying. He's always clowning aroud.
这个男孩对任何事情都不认真,他总是胡闹。
名人经典:
If you take the power-generating capability of an automobile and you compare that to the electric grid in the United States, it turns out that 4 percent of the automobiles, the power in 4 percent of the automobiles, equals that of the electric grid of the US. that's a huge power-generating capability, a mobile power-generating capability.
如果你比较汽车和美国电网的发电能力,结果就会发现汽车电力的百分之四相当于美国电网的供电能力。由此可看出汽车发电能力的强大,而且还是可移动的发电。