特别声明该文章中的迷你对话选自口语书籍，对话精讲为可可编辑编写。

第一、迷你对话

A: I’m pretty sure that Jim will turn out to be a good lawyer.

我敢肯定吉姆将来会成为一个好律师的。

B: How can you be so sure?

你怎么这么肯定？

A: He knows a lot about law and he’s eloquent, too.

他懂得很多法律知识，而且又能言善辩。

第二、 对话精讲

1. 地道表达

【地道短语】turn out

【解词释义】动词词组turn out有“培养出某人”或“生产出某物”的意思，作为习惯用语，它往往强调事情发展的结局或事物的结果。

【支持范例】Be calm and sit tight and everything will turn out well.

保持镇静，听其自然，一切都会好转。

Really, Marry, you'll turn out quite a heroine.

真的，玛丽，你会变成个大名鼎鼎的女人。

The doctor confess he did believe things would turn out badly.

医生承认他相信事情也许会弄得很糟。

They can not have foresee how thing will turn out.

他们不可能预知事情的结果。

2. 词海拾贝

know a lot about：非常了解

【例句-1】You seem to know a lot about him.

你好像很了解他。

【例句-2】It means you know a lot about movies and you have seen quite a large number of them.

就是说你很懂电影并且看过很多片子。

3. 句海拾贝

How can sb be so sure?

【拓展句型1】How can sb be sure about...？

【拓展句型2】How can sb be sure that+从句？

【释义】某人为何这么肯定（某事）？

【范例】How can you be so sure that you boyfriend will break up with you.

你为何如此肯定你的男友会和你分手。