not so，not the case，if not so，otherwise，else ；
[例句] 别说我活该，不然让你尝尝我的拳头。 Don't say it serves me right or I'll thump you.
[例句] 除非你要搞什么小动作，不然你为什么单要一间房？ Why did you need a room unless you were up to something?
in time，in step，in harmony，on the beat，time ；
[例句] 今天，他方向的改变似乎更与时代合拍。 Today, his change of direction seems more in tune with the times.
[例句] 他的想法与我的不合拍. His ideas do not square with mine.
ask in reply，answer a question with a question，[语]rhetorical question ；
[例句] 他微微皱了下眉头，显然并不期待任何人回答他的反问。 He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
[例句] 我顶了嘴，反问了几句。 I talked back and asked questions.
（多用于否定词后） take offense，mind，get annoyed，care about，reck ；
[例句] 如果有人提出批评，我会十分介意。 If someone says something critical I take it to heart.
[例句] 你不介意我把鞋子脱了吧？ You don't mind if I take my shoes off, do you?
northwest，northwest China，the Northwest ；
[例句] 西北地区成为该国的大粮仓。 The north-west became the country's bread-basket.
[例句] 走向西北的那条路, 那是最近的路. Take the northwest road; it is the shortest way.
（衣兜） pocket；
[例句] 流浪汉从深口袋里掏出了一截蜡烛。 The tramp produced a stump of candle from his deep pockets.
[例句] 小个子男人脏乎乎的短裤口袋里鼓鼓的，伸出来个什么东西。 Something was sticking from the pocket of the little man's grimy shorts.
slippers，babouche，baboosh，chinela；
[例句] 缎子拖鞋轻盈地踏过沾着露珠的草地。 The satin slippers tread daintily through the dewy grass.
[例句] 弗蕾迪说话轻声细气，穿着柔软的天鹅绒拖鞋蹑手蹑脚地四处走动。 Freddy speaks very quietly and pads around in soft velvet slippers.
coordinates，suit ；
[例句] 我花大笔钱购置了上班时穿的漂亮新套装。 I spent lots of money on smart new outfits for work.
[例句] 她穿了一身黑色羊毛套装，显得很庄重。 She was demurely dressed in a black woollen suit.
small towns，towns，market town ；
[例句] 该市镇处于密集的炮火之下。 The town is under heavy artillery fire.
[例句] 这笔钱将用来发展壮大市镇的商业中心。 The money will be used to regenerate the commercial heart of the town.
futile effort，fruitless labour，hold a candle to the sun，lost labour ；
[例句] 他在书桌前徒劳地坐了一上午之后便放弃了。 After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.
[例句] 假装系统完美无疵是徒劳的。 It would be idle to pretend the system is perfect.
(original) text，the original，master copy，original text ；
[例句] 原文的转写本早在1960年就可获取。 The transcriptions of the text were available as early as 1960.
[例句] 这位演员装腔作势地开始引用莎士比亚的原文. The actor, striking an attitude, began to quote Shakespeare.
should，ought to，duty-bound，naturally ；
[例句] 我认为新闻记者不应当有丝毫偏见。 I believe that a journalist should be completely objective.
[例句] 他们说，当前的征兵体系应当逐步废除。 They said the present system of military conscription should be phased out.
pillow，weeping willow ；
[例句] 他命令他们把几个枕头叠放在自己的背后。 He ordered them to stack up pillows behind his back.
[例句] 萨姆舒服地枕着枕头进入了梦乡。 Sam snuggled down in his pillow and fell asleep.
[航海] pilot，pilotage ；
[例句] 轮船进入陌生的港口前要雇用引航员. A steamer takes on a pilot before coming into a strange harbour.
[例句] 在大风浪中为船舶引航是很困难的. It's hard to pilot a vessel in rough weather.
latent capacity，potential，potentiality ；
[例句] 这个男孩在上小学的时候就初次显示出成为运动员的潜力。 The boy first showed promise as an athlete in grade school.
[例句] 老板充分意识到她的潜力后，对她关怀备至。 Her boss took her under his wing after fully realizing her potential.
（鸟兽笼） cage，（比喻束缚人的事物） bonds，trap，snare ；
[例句] 汤姆不喜欢上学, 学校对他来说好像是个牢笼. Tom hates school; it's a prison to him.
[例句] 因为他残废了, 他的房子就成了他的牢笼. Now that he was disabled, his house had become a prison to him.
spread，extend，extensioin，creep，overspread；
[例句] 传染病正在遭受洪灾的很多灾民中蔓延。 Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood victims.
[例句] 针对公众对该疾病的不断蔓延日益担忧，从而出台了这一举措。 The move follows growing public concern over the spread of the disease.
[旧] recognizances，sign an undertaking，binding over，enter into recognizances，recognizance ；
[例句] 这就使法庭有义务在无权控制孩子的时候命令其父母具结保证。 This imposes a duty on courts to bind over parents when they have no control over their children.
[例句] 要他具结守法(否则将再次受审). He was bound over to keep the peace.
win by a narrow margin，edge out，(be) a near thing，nose out ；
[例句] 投票者使巴尔加斯·略萨险胜. The voters gave a narrow win to Vargas Llosa.
[例句] 法国队以不到1秒的优势险胜英国队。 France edged out the British team by less than a second.
origin，source，ultimate source，fountain，fountainhead ；
[例句] 这就是激光器的极好的单色性的本源. This is the origin of the laser's extreme quasimonochromaticity.
[例句] 生活儒学致力于儒家形而上学在生活本源上的重建. Life Confucianism devotes itself to the rebuilding of Confucian metaphysics.