1.quit school 退学

例句：If you really want my advice I don't think you should quit school.

如果你真想听我的意见，我想你不应该退学。

Quit the job as manager 在经理的职位上辞职

If I don't get more money I'll quit.

不给我加薪我就辞职。

He has decided to quit as manager of the team.

他已决定辞掉球队经理的职务。

He quit the show last year because of bad health.

去年他因身体欠佳而退出了表演。

2.work ethic 工作态度，工作要求

例句：You have the choice of where to work, what to do, and what work ethic you are going to have.

去哪里工作，做什么，你想要怎样的职业要求，这些你都得做出选择。

professional/business/medical ethics

职业/商业道德；医德

to draw up a code of ethics

拟定一份道德规范

He began to question the ethics of his position.

他开始对他的立场是否符合道德准则提出质疑。

3.have an intuition that 我有…的直觉（我感到）

例句：With the number of people I am touching increasing, I have seemingly cultivated an intuition that who will be the true friends and who are not.

现在接触人多了，对于谁会成为我的朋友，谁不会是我的朋友的判断仿佛有了直觉。

4.start out 1.开始从事,着手(某工作)；从业 2.最初想要；起先打算

to start out in business

做起生意来

例句：She started out on her legal career in 1987.

她于 1987 年开始从事法律工作。

I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.

我起先打算写一篇短篇小说,但很快就写成了长篇小说。

5.dead end 绝境；僵局

例句：We had come to a dead end in our research.

我们的研究工作已陷入绝境。

He's in a dead-end job in the local factory.

他在当地工厂的工作是没有前途的。

These negotiations are a dead-end street.

谈判陷入僵局。

6.fixated (on sb/sth) (对…)异常依恋,固恋，关注某事

例句：Ironically, my husband was fixated on the fact that I might be an alcoholic.

具有讽刺意味的是，我的丈夫深信我只是一个嗜酒的人。

7.有关“potential”的短语

potential customers 潜在的客户

a potential source of conflict 潜在的冲突根源

a potential prime minister 未来的首相

例句：First we need to identify actual and potential problems.

首先,我们需要弄清实际的问题和潜在的问题。