自考高级英语下Lesson-12-The-Everlasting-Witness.ppt

Lesson Twelve The Everlasting Witness? felicitous well-chosen and suitable OPP infelicitous  Her choice of music is?felicitous. 她选择的音乐很适当. serene very calm or peaceful against seen with something else behind or as a background映衬 It is important to know what colors look good against your skin. dedicated someone who is dedicated works very hard at what they do because they care a lot about it: dedicated to The Woodland Trust is dedicated to preserving our native woodland.  ordered well arranged or controlled有序的；整齐的a well-ordered household newsreel a short film of news that was shown in cinemas in the past新闻短片 be/get back on your feet to have enough money again, or to be successful again after having problemsI need to get back on my feet again and forget all this.  Heal to become mentally or emotionally strong again after a bad experience, or to help someone to do this The trauma of divorce can often be healed by successful remarriage. for that matter used to say that what you are saying about one thing is also true about something else同样地 Ben never touched beer, or any kind of alcohol for that matter. fail somebody to not do what someone has trusted you to do SYN let somebody down I feel I’ve failed my children by not spending more time with them.  Burden load be burdened with/by something： to have a lot of problems because of a particular thing使负重；装载；烦扰 load somebody (up) with something： to give someone a lot of things, especially things they have to carry大量给予 retroactive descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously对以前的人或事有作用的 pertinent directly relating to something that is being considered SYN relevant相关的 pertinent to The last point is particularly pertinent to today’s discussion. bemused looking as if you are confused SYN bewildered a bemused expression bemused by He looked slightly bemused by all the questions. prick prick (up) your