如果同学们正在备考雅思口语,那你们一定要知道的是你们使用的词汇也是影响到你雅思口语成绩的重要标准!考官会考察你们使用的词汇是否准确、丰富度是否足够。
除了单个的词汇,大家还能通过使用同义替换词、习语、动词短语等各种表达来展示你们的词汇量。尤其是在适当的位置使用动词短语会让你们听起来更流利、更接近native speaker,当然也就能更加分啦~
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今天南京雅思培训班老师就给同学们总结了一份适合在雅思口语中使用的高 级动词短语,还有英文释义&例句,帮你们全方位了解这些短语该怎么用哦!
01
cut down on
释义:reduce 减少
例句:
I had to cut down on sugar and coffee to lose some weight.
02
bank on
释义:to expect and hope something will happen 依靠
例句:
I could always bank on my father’s support.
03
brush up on
释义:to improve a skill you haven’t practice for some time 复习;重温
例句:
I thought I’d brush up on my French before going to Paris.
04
bring somebody down
释义:make sb upset 使受挫
例句:
I am not fond of listening to heavy metal because it brings me down.
05
clean up/tidy up
释义:restore order, make sth clean 整理
例句:
I tidy up my room every Saturday. My mom was always tired of asking me to clean up my room.
06
come down with
释义:become sick 染上
例句:
When I was 6 I came down with chickenpox(水痘).
07
dress up
释义:put on special clothes / put on formal clothes 打扮
例句:
He dressed up as a cowboy for the party.
08
end up
释义:to finally be in a particular place or situation 结果
例句:
After walking my way round the world, I ended up teaching English as a foreign language.
09
fall apart
释义:to fail or stop working 崩溃
例句:
Their marriage fell apart after she found out about his affair.
10
get across
释义:communicate sth, make understandable 使了解
例句:
The novel is good at getting the experience of war across to the reader.
11
get around to
释义:to do something you have intended to do, but not had time 抽出时间做
例句:
I’d love to learn how to cook, but I just haven’t got around to it yet.
12
grow apart
释义:gradually begin having a less close relationship / stop being friends over time 日渐疏远
例句:
There was nobody else involved – we just grew apart when my friend changed school.
13
keep something from somebody
释义:to not tell someone about something 对某人隐瞒某事
例句:
He said it was alright, but I think he was keeping something from me.
14
look down on
释义:to think that you are better than someone 轻视
例句:
She thinks they look down on her because she’s unemployed.
15
look up to
释义:to admire and respect someone 尊敬
例句:
I’ve always looked up to my grandfather.
16
pass up
释义:to fail to take advantage of an opportunity 错过
例句:
My friend is never one to pass up a free meal.
17
run up against
释义:to experience an unexpected difficulty/to meet someone who is difficult to deal with 遭遇
例句:
I think we’re going to run up against more crime in the future.
18
put somebody down
释义:insult/ make a negative statement about someone 贬低
例句:
The teacher put the new student down in front of everybody because he couldn’t answer his question.
19
stumble upon/across/on
释义:to find/ meet someone or something by chance/ to discover 偶然碰上
例句:
I stumble upon the rare book in a second-hand bookstore.
20
think back
释义:to remember something that happened in the past 回想起
例句:
When I think back to when I was her age, my parents used to treat me differently.
21
wear off
释义:to stop having an effect or influence / disappear 逐渐消失
例句:
The effects of the painkiller wore off and my tooth began to hurt.
22
while something away
释义:to spend time in a relaxed way 消磨时间
例句:
We whiled away the afternoon playing cards in front of the fire.
上面这些就是南京雅思培训班老师给大家总结的一些地道的动词短语啦!看例句是不是立马就感受到了它们的与众不同?!希望同学们看完也能对雅思口语考官会喜欢的内容有所感悟,并且除了这些之外,可以自己自发地去寻找一些高分表达,这样这篇文章的目的才算是达成了哟~