Phrases and Sentence:

　　1、 She soon called my attention to the fact that she couldn’t work full time and keep house, too.

　　注意的詞語：call attention to(喚起注意)、keep house(當家)

　　2、 I guess I just took it for granted that a wife was supposed to take care of her kids and husband.

　　注意的詞語：take it for granted：(視為當然)、be supposed to：(應該、被期望)

　　3、 You’ve got to get to know them.

　　注意的詞語：have got to do：(必須做……)、get to：(在這里作“開始”的意思)

　　4、 But maybe I’d better take that back and give her a hand.

　　注意的詞語：take bake：(在這里作“取消”的意思)、give Sb. A hand(抽出空或騰出手幫助某人)

　　5、 They put me in mood for Italian food.

　　注意的詞語：put in mind：(使記起、提醒)

　　6、 I’ve put aside some money that I earned by doing some extra mechanical work.

　　注意的詞語：put aside：(儲存、備用)

　　7、 I was putting a machine together today.

　　注意的詞語：put together：(把……加起來、裝配)

　　8、 I am putting forth a lot of effect to make this tablecloth.

　　注意的詞語：put forth：(生出、作出)

　　9、 Do you want me to put my needlework away?

　　注意的詞語：put away：(在這里作“放棄、處理掉”的意思)

　　此要注意一下五個以“put”打頭的短語與詞組的用法

　　10、I was going by the store near your house ..

　　注意的詞語：go by：(順便走訪)

　　11、Your black purse and shoes go nicely with that dress.

　　注意的詞語：go with：(伴隨、與……相配)

　　12、He always goes beyond my expectations.

　　注意的詞語：go beyond：(超出)

　　13、The kids can’t go along with you.

　　注意的詞語：go along with：(一起去、附和)

　　14、Your offer goes to prove that you’re a wonderful mother-in-law.

　　注意的詞語：offer：(在這里作為“提意”的意思)、go to：(愿意為定位、轉到的意思，在這里引申為?)

　　15、You know I get sick every single time the temperature goes below 68°.

　　注意的詞語：go below：(下降)

　　此要注意一下五個以“go”打頭的短語與詞組的用法

　　16、I could really go for a good comedy.

　　注意的詞語：go for：(在這里作為“主張”的意思)

　　17、we can barely make ends meet.

　　注意的詞語：ends meet：指收支平衡

　　18、Every thing I say goes in one ear and out the other.

　　注意的詞語：goes in one ear and out the other.：(一個耳朵進，一個耳朵出。指聽不進去的意思)

　　19、I’ve been keeping track of our phone bills.

　　注意的詞語：keep track of：(明了、一目了然的意思)

　　20、I’ll have to call them and have them straighten it out.

　　注意的詞語：straighten out：(改正、更正)

　　練習:

　　On the day the World Trade Center fell, the Empire state Building once again became the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore. At a time when U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations. For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one more casualty of war.

　　Three years later, despite fears of terrorist attacks, big is beautiful again. On July 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided at the World Trade Center site. New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and around the U.S. Meanwhile, outside the states, where the taste for tall buildings never really faded, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the 1990s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a number of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservation American market.

　　Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary outpost in Queens, New York. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some of more than 4 m high), “Tall buildings”, a show that runs at MOMA through Sept.27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has eyolyed the early 1990s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing-and even producing, but usually in other nations-buildings that don’t resemble the dull boxes that crowd most American downtowns.

　　Engineering is, among others, a path to new kinds of beauty. Just look at Renzo piano’s London Bridge Tower, a slender glass pyramid that forms a glittering stalagmite against the old city’s skyline. You get a grasp of what ingenious engineering is all about from the London Headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the small cucumber because it rises against the sky like a green pickle. But the building’s single feature is the inclusion of larger interior gardens throughout. But there’s a dematerializing spirit even in a building that didn’t requiring new fears of engineering-the Arcos Bosques Corporativo in Mexico City, an arched tower with a vertical slot down its center that lightens the building’s mass brings the sky itself into play.

　　“Not only did American invent skyscraper”, says the Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava, “it invented the skyline.” But American skylines have got a little dull. With some work, the world’s architects might bring them back to a very tall standard.

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