snapdragon，fire-tongs，tongs，fire poker ；
[例句] 她用火钳再夹一些煤放进炉子里. She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.
[例句] 她用一把火钳往炉火上再加了一些煤. She used a pair of tongs to put some more coal on the fire.
unbend，unwind ；
[例句] 那猫伸直了腰跳下墙头。 The cat uncurled itself and jumped off the wall.
[例句] 跳水时腿要伸直. When you dive, you must keep your legs straight.
tenderloin ；
[例句] 把切成片的猪肉里脊放在上面，再往上浇点调味汁。 Place the sliced pork fillet on top and pour a little sauce over it.
[例句] 今天的特餐是里脊牛排, 先生. Sirloin steak is our special of the day, sir.
right beside one，on hand，at hand，（经济状况） one's financial condition at the moment ；
[例句] 手头上有合适的设备将会帮上大忙。 Having the right equipment at hand will be enormously helpful.
[例句] 在公司倒闭后，他手头缺少现金。 He was short of cash after the collapse of his business.
（总算） at last，（算得上） be considered ；
[例句] 我们的生活虽然并非锦衣玉食，也算是衣食无忧。 We don't live in the lap of luxury, but we're comfortable.
[例句] 尚塔尔能保住她的事业算是走了运。 Chantal was lucky to be able to salvage her career.
civil war ；
[例句] 内战阻碍着救援机构对饥荒赈济物资的配给。 The civil war is obstructing distribution of famine relief by aid agencies.
[例句] 共和国之间紧张的种族关系可能会引发内战。 Ethnic tensions among the republics could lead to civil war.
cool down，be mollified ；
[例句] 他上次生气, 连续几天没消气. Last time he had a mad on, it lasted for days.
[例句] 他朝她笑了一下,让她消消气. He flashed her a disarming smile.
primary school，elementary school，junior school，grade school；
[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] 孩子们先上幼儿园，然后上学前班，再接着上小学。 Children graduate to the kindergarten, then pre-school, and then school.
even，even if，even though ；
[例句] 即令天气变化,你也要按时赶到. You must get there in time even if the weather should change.
[例句] 如果有人来劝我, 即令是国王亲自来. And if anyone tries to persuade me, even the King himself.
动 [书]（毁坏；倒塌） collapse，fall apart，be destroyed ；
[例句] 房子倾圮了. The house was in a ruinous condition.
[例句] 我不喜爱坍圮 、 破烂的别墅. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages.
fall apart，fall to pieces，（累极） all one's limbs are out of joint ；
[例句] 别再装了,大车快散架了. Don't put any more on the cart, or it'll break.
[例句] 这整个快要散架的搭建物吊挂在一棵枝繁叶茂的大树的枝杈上。 This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
go wrong，get into trouble ；
[例句] 差不多可能出乱子的地方都出了乱子。 Nearly everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.
[例句] 我直觉感到要出乱子了。 I had an intuition that something awful was about to happen.
act against one's will，be forced to，have no alternative but to，have to ；
[例句] 他们不得已买了顶层楼座的廉价票。 They had been forced to find cheap tickets in the gallery.
[例句] 不得已迁移至另一城市工作 forced relocation to a job in another city
it doesn't matter，it's nothing，that's all right，never mind ；
[例句] 我知道那根本没什么大不了的，所以有些无动于衷。 I know it's nothing serious and I feel quite unemotional about it.
[例句] 她是个非常沉着的人。没什么能让她惊慌的。 She was a very calm person. Nothing could fluster her.
thanks to，owing to，fortunately，luckily ；
[例句] 多亏一块1/4英寸厚的防弹钢板，他才捡了条命。 His life was saved by a quarter-inch-thick bullet-proof steel screen.
[例句] 其中一些人质得以获释多亏了杰西·杰克逊。 Jesse Jackson was instrumental in the release of some of the hostages.
（舍弃； 舍去） give up，part with ；
[例句] 其中很多东西都具有重要的情感价值，令人难以割舍。 Many of the things are of great sentimental value and it is going to be a wrench parting with them.
[例句] 我发现我已经难以割舍他们那份融融的暖意. I found I missed the friendliness and warmth of those people.
finish off，round off，wind up，bring to an end ；
[例句] 这出戏的煞尾很带劲. The play has a powerful ending.
[例句] 事情不多了, 马上就可以煞尾. There isn't much left ; we're winding up.
so much，so many ；
[例句] 他为什么选了这么些脸色苍白、有气无力而又无聊乏味的人？ Why did he choose these pale, nerveless, uninteresting people?
[例句] 这么些活儿,得有个人帮帮你吧? Surely you need some help with so much work.
take down，unsling，detach，unmask ；
[例句] 吉尔站起身，走到书架跟前，取下一本书。 Gil rose and went to his bookcase and took down a volume.
[例句] 西蒙从书架上取下一本厚重的书。 Simon lifted a weighty volume from the shelf.
（站到里面去； [喻] 参与某种活动） have a foot-hold in，step inside，take part in，participate in ；
[例句] 在接插件或插头上的一种插脚, 也称管脚. A pin, also called a base pin, on a connector or plug.
[例句] 他十分费力地插脚挤上这辆公交车. He shoved onto the bus with great effort.