实战口语情景对话 第315期:Boarding School 寄宿学校

重点讲解：
1. hardly ever
几乎不；几乎没有；
eg. We ate chips every night, but hardly ever had fish.
我们每晚吃炸薯条，但几乎从不吃鱼。
eg. I have hardly ever been out of this city.
我几乎未曾离开过这个城市。
2. give sb. a free hand
自行决定权；自由行动权；
eg. He gave Stephanie a free hand in the decoration.
他放手让斯蒂芬妮全权负责装修一事。
eg. He was inclined to give them a free hand.
他倾向于放手让他们干。
3. be left to do sth.
是leave sb. to do sth.的被动式，表示听任（某人做某事）；听（某人）自便；
eg. One of the advantages of a department store is that you are left to yourself to try things on.
逛百货公司的其中一个优势是顾客可自行试穿衣服。
eg. He can be left to work on his own.
工作可交给他一个人去做。
4. say goodbye to
道别；
eg. He wanted to say goodbye to you.
他想跟你说声再见。
eg. We went on holiday at such short notice that I didn't say goodbye to Eric.
我们动身去休假之前十分仓促，我来不及向埃里克告别。
5. bring up
养育；抚养；养大；
eg. She brought up four children.
她养大了4个孩子。
eg.His grandmother and his father brought him up.
是他的祖母和父亲把他养大的。
6. used to doing sth.
习惯做某事；
eg. I'm not used to eating so much at lunchtime.
我不习惯午饭吃那么多。
eg. She was used to having her orders instantly obeyed.
她习惯了让人即刻服从她的命令。