实战口语情景对话 第401期:Rare Food 珍稀食物

重点讲解：
1. close down
（工厂、商店、学校等）永久性关闭；（使）停业；（使）倒闭；
eg. When they did leave, it caused the local supermarket to close down.
当他们真走了之后，当地的超市也随即关门了。
eg. They wanted to close down the railway line, but hundreds of people objected.
他们想停止使用那条铁路线，但遭到数百人的反对。
2. pick up
拿起；提起；拾起；捡起；
eg. Send an email or pick up the phone and call those people you wish to see over the holidays.
给那些你想在节日里见到的人发邮件或拿起电话打给他们。
eg. They depend on the goodwill of visitors to pick up rubbish.
他们相信游客会自觉捡起垃圾。
3. at first
最初；起初；开始时；
eg. The finding was at first puzzling.
该发现起初让人感到困惑。
eg. At first progress was slow.
开始时进展比较缓慢。
4. cut up
切碎；切开；
eg. The woman cut up the watermelon and shared it out among the four boys.
那妇人把西瓜切开，分给四个孩子。
eg. Scraps of material were saved, cut up and pieced together for quilts.
边角碎料都保留下来，剪好后拼在一起做成被子。
5. at least
（表示相对于不利条件或糟糕情形）起码，不管怎样；
eg. At least you made that speech.
起码你还发表了那番演说。
eg. At least this second meeting had helped to thaw the atmosphere.
这第二次会议至少起到了缓和气氛的作用。