句子---英语继续学习.docx

2013-12-2○ It wasnt easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy home cooking. 母亲给她吃易饱的家常菜，她想减掉婴儿肥可是很难。○ One morning we came upon an abandoned undernourished puppy on the porch. 一天早上在走廊上我发现了一只营养不良、被人抛弃的小狗。○ Journalists on the whole dont create public opinion. They can help to nourish it 大体说来记者不制造舆论。他们会助长舆论。○ a fraction of 一小部分The cost is only a fraction of his salary. 那项费用不过是他薪水的一小部分。Only a small fraction of a banks total deposits will be withdrawn at any one time. 任何时候，一家银行的总存款只有少量会被提取。Naturally, only a fraction of our huge investment was ever make public. 自然，我们巨额的投资中只有一小部分是公之于众的。○ a matter of 大约，左右The book sold for a matter of five dollars. 这本书售价过去是五美元左右。 This job will only take a matter of minutes. 这件事只要几分钟就会做好。○ account for 所占…比例Computers account for 5% of the countrys commercial electricity consumption. 计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。导致；解释 If something accounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.Now, the gene they discovered today doesnt account for all those cases. 不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。 为…提出理由;对…作出说明 If you can account for something, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.How do you account for the companys alarmingly high staff turnover?... 你怎么解释这家公司高得令人忧虑的人员流动率？ 对（行动、政策等）负有责任 If someone has to account for an action or policy, they are responsible for it, and may be required to explain it to other people or be punished if it fails.The President and the President alone must account for his governments reforms.总统必须为他的政府改革负责，而且是负全责。 将（钱款）列入预算 If a sum of money is accounted for in a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purposeThe really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for. 非常庞大的裁员开支已被列入预算。 杀死；消灭；打败 If you account for an enemy or opponent, you kill, destroy, or beat them.In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft... 5月的头10天里我们中队至少报销了7架敌机。ambient [??mbi?nt]（气温）周围的 The ambient temperature is the temperature of the air above the ground in a particul