英语第十一次练习

1.Debate

Should we stop our parents for crazily adoring certain celebrity with everything they have got?

yes
in any time, crazily adoring an individual is an irrational thing

2.Conversation making

• hale and hearty: Healthy.

It’s true that she was in the hospital a few weeks ago, but she’s hale and hearty now.

• keep at bay:To keep someone or something at a distance or from reaching full potency, especially in order to prevent harm to oneself.

You have to start meeting your minimum monthly repayments if you want to keep your creditors at bay.

• caught flat-footed:To startle one; to come upon one unawares or unprepared. Usually used in the past tense.

The security guard caught the thieves flat-footed.

• bee in the bonnet:have a bee in (one’s) bonnet To talk incessantly about something one thinks is important (often in spite of others’ disinterest).

Ever since the blizzard last year, Dad has had a bee in his bonnet about moving to a warmer climate

• It seems that Mike still has a bee in his bonnet over the criticism he got in the staff meeting.
  make short shrift of :A minimal amount of time, attention, or consideration given to someone. (Typically used in the phrases “give/get short shrift.”)

Despite the urgency of the problem, the minister’s proposed solutions are getting short shrift in parliament.

3.Speech

What’s the most costly step you have taken in your life?
By saying costly, it can mean both financially and mentally.

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4.Sentence Making

• point the finger at :To indicate that one is guilty of (doing) something; to blame or accuse one of (doing) something.

She’ll say that she doesn’t blame anyone, but I know that, in her heart, she points the finger at me.
Now, I’m not pointing the finger at anyone in particular, but someone here has been stealing food from the communal refrigerator.

• on the double:Rapidly; faster than one normally goes. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.

Can you please drive on the double?

• at the point of :Ready or about to do something.

I’m sorry I’m running late—I was on the point of getting in the shower when the doorbell rang.

• in one’s right mind :Thinking soundly; rational. Usually used to set up a context in which any sane person would or could do, say, or think a certain thing.

No one in their right mind agrees to those kind of terms—unless they sign a contract without reading it.
You must not be in your right mind if you think that breaking up their wedding is a good idea.

• drive sense into:To assist or persuade someone to start thinking sensibly (about something).

Jason is convinced that he wants to get a tattoo once he turns 18, but I’m hoping we’ll be able to knock sense in before then.