Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note

重点短语

1. bring up
培养；抚养；养育或教育某人；提出；呕吐某物
She brought up five children.
她养育了五个孩子。
Her parents died when she was a baby and she was brought up by her aunt.
她出生后不久就父母双亡, 是由姑母抚养大的。
常用结构:
bring sb. up to be/as 培养某人成为……
bring sb. up to do sth. 培养某人做……
联想拓展
bring forward提出（问题、建议、计划等）
bring down降低；压倒
bring about使发生
bring to light 发现
bring in 引入
bring out 推出，使显出
bring on 引起，带来

2. go ahead
执行;进行，前进;（用于祈使句）可以;往下说;用吧;开始吧
Despite the bad weather, the journey will go ahead.
尽管天气不好，旅行将照常进行。
The building of the new bridge will go ahead as planned.
新桥的修建将按计划进行。
联想拓展
ahead of 在之前；领先于；胜过 
ahead of time/in advance 提前
go against违背；反对；不利于
go around/round/about （疾病）传播
go after 追求
go by 过去
go in for 爱好
go out（火、灯等）熄灭；外出
go over 复习；检查
go through 遭受；经历；通过
go up 上升；增长
go without 没有……也行；将就
go wrong 出毛病

3. by accident = by chance
偶然；无意中;不小心
Last time I ran across her in the street by accident.
上次我偶然在街上碰见她了。
I only found it by accident.
我只是碰巧找到的。
联想拓展
by contrast 对比之下
by mistake 错误地
by hand 用手;用体力
by machine 用机器

4. to be honest=honestly speaking
说实话
To be honest, I am not satisfied with what you did.
说实话，我对你做的事不满意。
To be honest, I know nothing about him except that he is from America.
老实说，我只知道他是一位美国人。
联想拓展
to be frank=frankly speaking坦率地说
to be exact=exactly speaking 确切地说
to tell you the truth 实话告诉你
to make things worse 更糟的是
To tell you the truth，I don’t think you are right.
实话告诉你，我认为你不对。
To be exact，every minute more than 130 million gallons of water plunge to the bottom of the gorge over 320 feet down.
准确地说，每分钟就有超过1.3亿加仑的水流倾泻到320多英尺之下的峡谷深处。 这种不定式短语是坦白陈述时所用的套语，表明说话人的观点或态度，在句子中作插入语，没有任何形式上的变化，即:不受句子其他成分(特别是主语)的影响。

5. on the contrary
与此相反；正相反(只作状语)
It doesn’t seem ugly to me; on the contrary, I think it’s rather beautiful.
我觉得它并不丑, 恰恰相反,我认为它相当漂亮。
It wasn’t a good thing; on the contrary, it was a huge mistake.这并不是一件好事，相反，这是个巨大的错误。
联想拓展
(be) contrary to 违反（某事物）；与……相反
Contrary to popular belief, many cats dislike milk.
与普遍看法相反，许多猫并不喜欢牛奶。

6. as for
至于，关于
As for you, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
至于你, 你应该感到惭愧。
联想拓展
as to 至于，关于；提到；就……而论(至于，说到)

7. take a chance=take chances
冒险，碰运气
He took a chance when he made the investment.
当时他投资时是冒了很大风险的。
联想拓展
have a good chance/no chance/not much chance of (doing) sth./to do sth./that ...大有希望/没有可能/没什么希望做某事
by chance=by accident 偶然地；意外地
give sb. a chance 给某人一个机会
the chances are (that) ...
=it is likely that ...很可能……