重点词汇词组：

At first, Gryffindors1 passing the giant hourglasses that recorded the house points the next day2 thought3 there'd been a mistake4.

长难句分析

解：1主语+2定语从句+3谓语+4宾语从句

析：现在分词短语“passing the giant hourglasses”作后置定语修饰Gryffindors；“that recorded the house points”是定语从句，修饰先行词the giant hourglasses，关系代词that在从句中作主语；“there'd been a mistake”是宾语从句，省略了连接词that。

1.make up for 补偿，弥补

例：This year's good harvest will make up for last year's bad one.

今年的丰收将弥补去年的歉收。

常见搭配：

①make sb./sth. up （为……）化妆

例：For the movie, they made him up as an Indian.

在这部电影中，他们把他化装成印第安人。

②make sth. into sth. 把……变成

例：They've made the spare room into an office.

他们已把空闲的房间改成了办公室。

相关俚语：make much of sth. 给予……很大的重要性

例：Don't make too much of the test results.

别把考试结果太当回事。

2.find out 得知

例：How did you find out about the party?

你是怎么知道这个聚会的？

常见搭配：find fault with 挑剔；批评

例：She's always finding fault with the way he works.

她总是挑剔他的工作方式。

相关俚语：find your voice 愿意开口

例：Witnesses often find their voices when they hear a reward has been offered.

听到有悬赏时目击证人往往就愿意开口了。

3.spread （使）蔓延，（使）扩散

例：Are you spreading rumours again?

你是不是又在四处散播谣言了？

常见搭配：

①spread out （人）散开

例：They spread out to search the whole area.

他们散开来搜查整个地区。

②spread sth. over sth. 使……分期完成

例：The repayments on the loan can be spread out over three years.

这笔贷款可以在3年内分期偿还。

相关俚语：spread yourself too thin 同时做太多事情

例：I realized I'd been spreading myself too thin so I resigned as secretary of the golf club.

我意识到我做的事情太多，因此我辞去了高尔夫球俱乐部的秘书一职。

4.turn on 突然批评/攻击（某人）

例：Suddenly she just turned on me and accused me of undermining her.

她突然开始攻击我，指责我背后说她坏话。

常见搭配：

①turn sb. in 将（某人）送交警方；自首

例：The hit-and-run driver turned himself in to the police the day after the accident.

事故发生后的第二天，这名交通肇事逃逸的司机向警方自首了。

②turn over sth. 营业额达

例：The profits are not high, but the company turns over more than $3.5 million every year.

利润并不高，但是该公司每年的营业额高达350万美元。

相关俚语：turn the spotlight on sth. 聚焦（某事）

例：The documentary turned the spotlight on the low wages paid to manual workers.

这个纪录片重点讲述体力劳动者面对的工资过低问题。

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