Step by Step 3000 第3册 Unit4:Language Study and Appreciation(2)

9. to lampoon with.
Take Care, a large heath maintenance organization, lampoon the disembodied voices with their menu options.
10. run-in.
The majority felt frustration, even fury, over their run-ins with voice mail.
11. a backlash against.
He foresees a growing backlash against voice mail.
12. to get message across to.
when we want to get our message across to people with the same job as us, we often use jargon.
13. to wide the gap between.
Using terms like blue-sky-thinking, rather than saying more plainly "imaging new or different ways of doing things" baffles employees and widens the gap between managers and staff.
14. to cover up.
Over a third of those surveyed think it shows a lack of confidence and almost one in five think people who use it are untrustworthy or trying to cover something up.
15. en route to.
US space shuttle Discovery has made a successful lift-off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, en route to the International Space Station.
16. to hold record for/ to break record for.
Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov holds the record for the longest day in orbit, which is 438 days.
Mir was truly a remarkable achievement of human ingenuity, breaking uncounted records for human spaceflight.
17. to betray the presence of.
These wobbles can betray the presence of a planet, tugging at the star it orbits.
18. in orbit.
The same team of astronomers from Switzerland, France and Portugal discovered a planet similar in mass to to Neptune in or bit around the same star two years ago.
19. to unlock the secret of.
The Lander and a companion orbiting craft called the Mars Climate Orbiter launched in December, are the second installment of a 12-year NASA program begun in 1996, to unlock the secrets of earth's red neighbor.
20. to break free of.
Only a handful of Britons have broken free of the earth's atmosphere.