(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.take sb. in 欺骗
例：I can't believe she was taken in by him.
我简直不敢相信她被他骗了。
【常见短语】
①take sth. up 占据（地方或时间）
例：This desk takes up too much room.
这张桌子太占地方。
②take sb. back 与（某人）重归于好
例：His wife said she would never take him back.
他妻子说她绝不会跟他和好。
③take to sth. 开始从事；形成……的习惯
例：She was so depressed she took to drink.
她十分抑郁，开始酗酒。
【相关俚语】
take your time 做事磨蹭
例：The builders are really taking their time.
那些建筑工人真会磨蹭。
2.be pleased with sth. 对……满意
例：I'm really pleased with your work this term.
我对你本学期的表现非常满意。
【常见短语】
be pleased to do sth. 乐于做
例：The personnel manager will be pleased to advise you.
人事经理会很乐意给你提供建议。
【相关俚语】
①pleased with yourself 自鸣得意，洋洋自得
例：Simon's looking very pleased with himself today.
西蒙今天看起来非常得意。
②(as) pleased as Punch 非常开心
例：She was as pleased as Punch about the news.
听到那个消息她心花怒放。
3.strike 猛然意识到；使产生……想法
例：It strikes me that you'd be better off working for someone else.
我觉得你换个老板处境会好些。
【常见短语】
①strike sb. down 使（某人）病倒
例：It's a tragedy that these young people were struck down in their prime.
这些年轻人英年早逝真是令人痛心。
②strike on/upon sth. 发现；想起
例：She struck on the idea for her novel while she was travelling in Russia.
她在俄罗斯旅行途中萌生了该小说的创作灵感。
【相关俚语】
①strike a balance 求得平衡
例：It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity.
问题在于要在产品质量和生产率之间求得适当的平衡。
②strike while the iron is hot 趁热打铁
例：He doesn't often make such offers--I'd strike while the iron is hot if I were you.
他不常主动提出这样的提议——我要是你的话就趁热打铁。
长难句解析
The idea1 soon reached to2 conviction3, as she observed his increasing civilities toward herself, and heard his frequent attempt at a compliment on her wit and vivacity4; and though more astonished than gratified herself by this effect of her charms5, it was not long before her mother gave her to understand that the probability of their marriage was exceedingly agreeable to her6.
解：1主语+2谓语+3宾语+4原因状语从句+5让步状语从句+6宾语从句
析：It was not long before…表示“不久，就……”。It was+时间段+before…表示“过了多久才(怎么样)……”。It was not+时间段+before…表示“没过多长时间就……”。It will (not) be+时间段+before…表示“要过多久(不久)……才……”(before从句谓语动词要用一般时态)。
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