Be supposed to do:应该,被期望
What am I supposed to do with his help?
Book up
Break down/doesn’t work
Bring up:教育,培养,提出
She brought up her children to be truthful。
Build up积累,增强,树立
By chance/run into:偶然
By no means :绝不 /anything but
Check in/out
Come up:发生,出现,提出
Come up with:针对问题,挑战等提出,想出,赶上
I spent a whole week searching on the net, but came up with nothing valuable。
Concentrate on/focus on 集中
Deal with /cope with 处理
Drop in :顺便拜访
Drop out of:不参与,退出
They’re likely to drop out of school and less likely to succeed in life。
Eat one’s words 食言
Fall short of:达不到,不符合
Its results fell short of her expectation。(2002-1)
Figure out :搞清楚,弄明白
What I can’t figure out is how to make it work in my program。(2002-1)