实战口语情景对话 第396期:Venice 威尼斯

重点讲解：
1. depend on
取决（于）；有赖（于）；
eg. How much can you get depend on how much you pay.
你能得到多少取决于你付出了多少。
eg. And the next step up the ladder would depend on her performance in Paris.
而她的下一次晋升就取决于她在巴黎的工作表现。
2. dress up
装扮；打扮；
eg. For children, the main point of Halloween became to dress up and collect as much tasty candy as possible.
对于孩子们，万圣节最重要的就是打扮起来，并搜集尽可能多的美味糖果。
eg. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from other student she was living it up.
她喜欢打扮并乐意成为其他学生关注的焦点，她尽情地享受生活。
3. meet up
碰到；遇见；
eg. When he was in the supermarket, he met up with a buddy he had at Oxford.
他在超市遇见了他在牛津时的一个朋友。
eg. They met up in 1956, when they were both young schoolboys.
他们1956年相遇，那时他们俩都还是小男生。
4. by chance
偶然；碰巧；
eg. He picked up a purse on his way there by chance.
他碰巧在去那儿的路上捡了一个钱包。
eg. It was not by chance that he was able to open up a new field and perform great deeds.
他之所以能开辟新天地，成就一番事业，绝非偶然。
5. set off
动身；出发；启程；
eg, By midmorning we were done with the eiffel tower and had set off for versailles.
上午的时候，我们已经结束了埃菲尔铁塔的游览，出发前往凡尔赛宫。
eg. We were about to set off when it suddenly began to rain.
我们刚要出发，突然下起雨来。
6. in the end
最后；终于；
eg. Almost everyone gets their comeuppance in the end.
几乎每个人最终都会得到应有的报应。
eg. In the end, we all decided to organize a concert for Easter.
最终，我们一致决定组织一场复活节音乐会。
7. turn out
（以某种方式）发生；最后是；结果是；
eg. I was positive things were going to turn out fine.
我确信事情最终会好起来的。
eg. It's strange how things turn out.
事情的结局出乎意料。
8. as soon as
一…就…；
eg. As soon as the matter is cleared up. I shall write to them.
等到这事一弄清楚，我就给他们写信。
eg. I arranged the flowers in the vase as soon as I came back home.
一回到家里，我就把花在花瓶里插好。