开门见山, 谈正题come straight to the point,

 他的讲话简明扼要, 切中要害。His speech was short and to the point,

无论何时他谈话时, 他都直奔主题。Whenever he talks, he comes straight to the point,

 名誉, 声誉reputation,

有一个好名声have a good reputation,

 因  而闻名have a reputation for something,

不负盛名, 名副其实live up to one's reputation,

 名誉扫地lose one's reputation,

ruin one's reputation,

indicate, 常与that,连用, 指出, 暗示

身体发烧表示有病。Fever indicates sickness,

我表示他的帮助不受欢迎。I indicated that his help was not welcome,

 运气, 命运, 财富fortune,

发财make a fortune,

碰运气try one's fortune,

给某人算命tell somebody's fortune,

 由于, 因  而造成due to,

由于下雨, 比赛推迟了。The game was postponed due to the rain,

这起交通事故是由于你的粗心驾驶 而造成的。The accident is due to your careless driving,

死后继续存在的东西。Something that continues to exist after death,

 存在，生存(无被动、无进行)exist,

 存在于exist in,

 靠    生存exist on,

live on,

 存在； 生存existence,

开始存在come into existence,

come into being,

现存的； 现行的existing,

他们靠很少的钱生活。They exist on very little money,

They live on very little money,

没有人知道这种习俗何时存在。No one knows when such a custom exist,

要证明上帝的存在是不可能的。It's impossible to prove the existence of God,

英语是一种现存的语言。English is an existing language,

你觉得这个主意怎么样？。What do you think of the idea?,

 依靠depends on,

靠 过活;靠（某一数目的钱）过活;靠（某一收入来源）过活;（动物）靠吃（某种食物）维持生命，以  为食;（人）以 为主要食物;继续活着lives on,

依靠;信赖rely on,

虽然没有人真正看清这只神秘的生物，但当地摄影师薛林声称它的头看起来像一匹马。Although no one really got a clear look at the mysterious creature, Xuelin, a local photographer, claimed that its head looks like a horse,

 声称，主张； 认领； 索赔 要求； 所有权claim,

  声称要做claim to do,

 声称正在做claim to be doing,

 声称已经做claim to have done,

claim, +that,从句 声称

有人主张It's claimed that,

 要求make a claim for something,

 有人认领我昨天交的那个钱包吗？Has anyone claimed the wallet I turned in yesterday?,

渔夫和水手声称在海里见过怪物。The fishermen and sailor claimed to have seen monsters in the sea,

他要求加薪。He made a claim for higher pay,

她声称戒指被偷了。She claimed that the ring was stolen,

他们说，低温不太可能支持这么大的生物。They say that the low-temperature is unlikely to be able to support such large living creatures,

不可能的unlikely,

可能的likely,

likely,的主语既可以是真正的主语(人或者物), 也可以是形式主语(it,); 而possible,和 probable,的主语 必须是形式主语it,

不太可能。It's unlikely that,

某人做某事是可能的。It is possible for somebody to do something,

很可能，It's likely that,

 It is possible that,

 It is probable that,

它占地约十平方公里。It covers an area of about ten square kilometres,

 封面; 瓶盖，报道，对    进行采访，走过(一段路程)看完，读完，包括，涉及，足够支付。cover,

用    覆盖cover,  with,

被    覆盖be covered by,

be covered with,

记者被派去报道这一事件。The reporter was sent to cover the event,

红军在长征中走了两万五千里。The Red Army covered twenty-five thousand Li in the Long March,

他一天读了200页小说。He covered 200 pages of the novel in a day,

这项调查涵盖了公司的各个方面。The survey covers all aspects of the company,

这本书十元钱就够了。Ten yuan can cover the book,

也许是太多的争斗导致了恐龙的灭绝。Perhaps too much fighting caused the dinosaurs to die out,

 消亡;灭绝;逐渐消亡;（火）逐渐熄灭;（风等）逐渐停止die out,

 相继死去，先后死去; （温度）降下来; 相继死亡die off,

 死于die of,

 die from,

 （尤指声音、光、风）逐渐消失，停止; 昏厥; 自行消失die away,

 (火的)熄灭； (谣言的)平息，减弱; 逐渐平息die down,

你知道恐龙是什么时候灭绝的吗？。Do you know when dinosaurs died out ?,

汽车的声音在远处渐渐消失了。The sound of the car died away in the distance,

这些谣言很快就会平息。These rumors will soon die down,

 奥运会再次成为新闻。The Olympics are back in the news,

  手背the back of the hand,

 仰面躺着lie on one's back,

   后卫球员a full back,

再次成为新闻back in the news,

怪物，看起来是黑色的the monster, which seemed to be black in colour,

似乎要做seem to do,

似乎已经做了。seem to have done,

似乎是这样。It seems that,

好像在做什么。seem to be doing,

似乎已经被做。seem to be done,

好像，It seems as if,

 It seems as though,

 It seems like,

There seems to be,

 这个婴儿似乎正在吃东西。The baby seemed to be eating something,

 他似乎已经被告知这个消息了。He seemed to have been told the news,

 他似乎已经被告知这个消息了。It seemed that he had been told the news,

看样子他好像曾在犯罪现场。It seems as if he has been at the scene of the crime,

 我们似乎好几年不见了。It seems like years since we last met,

 从前这儿有一座寺庙。There used to be an old temple here,

 似乎有过一场争吵。There seemed to have been a quarrel,

在世界的其他湖里有可能也存在着类似的动物。There might be similar creatures in other lakes around the world,

从前有一个国王, 喜欢新衣服胜过任何 东西。Once there lived a king, who loved new clothes than anything else,

存在着这样一个事实, 即离开他的父母 他无法生存。There existed a fact that he couldn't live without his parents,

 第三份报告来自李晓，他和家人正在湖边游玩。A third report came from Li Xiao, who was visiting the lake with his family,

序数词前用不定冠词a,修饰，表示“又   一； 再一”。

 蛋糕的味道很好。他想吃第三块，因为第二块太小了。The cakes are delicious, He'd like to have a third one because the second one is rather too small,

要他了解现代音乐似乎是不可能的It seems impossible for him to understand modern music,

我好像曾经见过他。I seem to have seen him before,

似乎没有必要帮助那个国家。There seems to be no need to help that country,

他很快使他自己适应了新环境。He is quick to adapt himself to new circumstances,

他声称他不在犯罪现场。He claimed that he wasn't at the scene of the crime,

这些书对你不可能有帮助。These books are unlikely to be helpful to you,

那个小女孩看起来好像从来没有走过路。It appeared that the little girl would probably never walk,