Step by Step 3000 第3册 Unit8:Language Study and Appreciation(2)

7. to have made it into.
Words such as "blogging" and "podcasting" are now used and understood by enough people for these terms to have made it into the most recently published dictionaries in Britain.
8. to soar into the sky.
Its main spire soars 450 feet into the sky and the top can be reached by climbing 343 steps.
9. to be commissioned to/ to create more space for.
In 1981, the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei was commissioned to redevelop the public part of the Louvre and create more space for reception areas and services.
10. to stand in dialogue with each other/ to complement each other.
I think the right thing is really to put something so contradictory to it that they stand in dialogue with each other and they don't even try to complement each other.
11. to set the scene for.
I think Dongtan will really set the scene for sustainable development of cities for the coming decades.
12. to minimize impact on.
He said Dongtan is being planned from the beginning to minimize impact on nature.
13. to stem from.
The interest in home automation, however, is not born out of a desire to create a space-age home.
It stems from a genuine interest in ways to make houses safe, energy-efficient and more comfortable.
14. to queue up.
In the case of an intruder, a triggered motion detector can turn on floodlights in the yard and instruct your stereo to queue up the sound the by a barking dog.