“寻找”，是有目的地找，强调“寻找”这一动作。look for,

你在找什么？。What are you looking for?,

我在找我的自行车。I'm looking for my bike,

find,“找到”“发现”，强调“找”的结果，其宾语往往是某个丢失的东西或人。

你昨天找到李明了吗？。Did you find Li Ming yesterday?,

不，我们到处找他，但没找到。No，we looked for him everywhere，but didn't find him,

find out,着重表示通过理解、分析、思考、询问等“弄清楚”“查明”一件事情，其后的宾语常常是某个情况、事实。

请查查火车什么时候开。Please find out when the train leaves,

 你知道他为什么迟到了吗？。Have you found out why he was late?,

拿，取take,

 把某物带在身边take something with somebody,

 把某物带到某地take something to someplace,

  把某人带到某地take somebody to someplace,

你应该带把伞。You should take an umbrella with you,

你能把我的包带到教室去吗？Can you take my bag to the classroom please?,

“乘坐某一交通工具”take,

我们骑自行车去还是坐出租车去？。   Shall we go there by bike or take a taxi?,

他们通常乘公共汽车去上班。  They usually take a bus to work,

你每天做作业需要多长时间？ How long will it take you to do your homework every day?,

吃，喝，服用，放 take,

你要喝杯牛奶吗？。Will you take a glass of milk?,

这种药一天吃三次。 Take the medicine three times a day,

你的牛奶里放糖吗？。Do you take sugar in your milk?,

take,“（顾客在商店）选取，买下”相当于buy,或者get,

那很便宜。我要了。That's cheap,I'll take it,

 运动，锻炼take exercise,

 起飞；脱下 take off,

拿走  take away,

看一看 take a look,

take a look at,

取下take down,

拿出，取出take out,

照顾 take care of,

 参加 take part in,

发生 take place,

照相take pictures,

 相像take after,

当我小的时候，我父母经常带我去我家附近的公园。When I was young, my parents often took me to the park near my home,

当你游泳的时候，当心你的耳朵。你可以用耳塞来阻止水进人你的耳朵。When you are swimming, take care of your ears,You can use earplugs to stop water getting into your ears,

  快的 rapid,

 快地，迅速地rapidly,

 做事手脚快的人   a fast worker, 

a rapid worker, 

a quick worker,

打字快的打字员   a fast typist,

a rapid typist,

a quick typist ,

“快”，侧重指速度方面。   fast,

 她有好快就跑好快。   She ran as fast as she could,

 你读得太快，我跟不上。   You are reading too fast for me to follow,

询问速度或表示钟表走得快等， fast,

 这鱼游得有多快?   How fast is the fish swimming?,

 我的表快 5 分钟。   My watch is 5 minutes fast,

quick,通常表示某一动作来得突然或时间持续很短，有时还含有匆忙之意(但通常不指动作的频率) 

 他突然吻了她一下。   He gave her a quick kiss,

 他匆匆地扫了一眼。   He had a quick look at it,

 她匆匆吃了早餐就赶去上班。   She ate a quick breakfast and rushed off to work,

催人快做(快走等)，通常用 quick,。

 快点!    Be quick!,

突然或急速(且连续不断)的动作rapid,

 机枪声骤起a rapid burst of machine-gun fire,

 他连珠炮似地发问。He asked questions in rapid succession,

 一连串 ; 继承 ; 继任 ; 一系列succession,

rapid, 指一种有益的高速度

fast, 和 quick, 有时指无益的急速 

 他在英语方面取得了很快的进步。He made rapid progress in English,

增长，增加 increase,

地球上的人口正在迅速增长。The popular of the earth is increasing very fast,

increase to, +具体的增长后的数字，“增长到”

人口已从120万增长到了180万。The population has increased from one point two million to one point eight million,

increase by,+倍数或百分比，“比多少增长了 百分比或者倍”

 该镇的人口率增长了2%The rate of the town's population has increased by two percent,

上个月费用上升了百分之二百六十达到一千八百元Cost increased by two hundred and sixty percent to one thousand eight hundred yuan last month,

“许多的；若干，一些”后接可数名词复数或代词，谓语动词用复数形式。   a number of,  

many,

a number of,词组中还可以加入形容词表示数量大或小等（a large,或者small,或者great number of,但不能用little,修饰）。  

 我的一些朋友认为我应该去度假。 A number of my friends think I should take a holiday,

“ 的数字，数目”，主语时，谓语动词用单数。the number of,

 学生人数约为20人。 The number of students is about twenty,

八分之三three eighths,

分数的表达方法是：分子用基数词，分母用序数词；当分子大于1时，分母要用复数形式；分子和分母之间可用连词符连接，也可不用。

我五分之一的同学来自农村。One fifth of my classmates are from the countryside,

地球的三分之二被水覆盖。Two thirds of the earth is covered with water,

当分数作主语时，谓语动词的形式取决于与分数相关的名词或代词的数。

“二分之一”one half,

四分之一one quarter,

四分之三three quarters,

 比较compare,

很难比较。It's hard to compare,

比较这两辆车很有趣。It's interesting to compare these two cars,

和 比较compare with,

和别人的问题相比，我自己的问题算不得什么。My own problems seem insignificant compared with others,

把 比作compare,  to,

诗人曾把睡眠比作死亡。Poets have compared sleep to death,

与旧型号相比，新型机器人成本更低，但使用寿命更长。compare with the older model,the new robot costs less but lasts longer,

意思是，表示 的意思mean,

你这么说是什么意思？What do you mean by saying so?,

mean意味着；就是。后接名词、动名词或that,从句

意味着做某事mean doing something,

这意味着我们必须毫无结果地返回。This means that we have to return without any result,

那将意味着浪费大量的水。That would mean wasting a lot of water,

mean, 意欲；企图。后接名词、代词或动词不定式

打算做某事mean to do something,

我整个星期都想给你打电话。I've been meaning to phone you all week,

我是说，如果可以的话。I mean,if I can,

我不是故意的I don't mean it,

我是认真的。I mean it,

充满，装满  be filled with,

 be full of,

瓶子里装满了水。The bottle is filled with water,

The bottle is full of water,

他鼓足勇气走进了山洞。Filled with courage , he went into the cave,

filled 表示“充满了的”指处于一种状态。

把瓶子装满沙子。  Fill the bottle with sand ,

填空。 Fill in the blanks ,

充满，强调动作be filled with,

卡车上装满了苹果。The trucks are filled with apples,

 充满，强调状态be full of,

她眼泪汪汪的。Her eyes were full of tears,

 协议，同意agreement,

这是你我之间的协议。This is an agreement between you and me,

 约好by agreement,

 达成协议；取得一致意见come to an agreement,

arrive at an agreement,

reach an agreement,

make an agreement,

同意,（和 ）一致 （多作表语，间或构成复合宾语）in agreement,

in agreement with,

同意某事agree on something,

同意某人agree with somebody,

by,+地点名词，“在 旁边,在  附近”

我坐在窗边。  I sit by the window,

by,+时间名词“到 为止”，常用语完成时中

到上学期末，我们已经学了三十首英文诗。 By the end of last term,we had learned thirty English poems,

by,+交通工具,交通方式名词（名词前不加冠词并不用复数）“通过 的方式”

乘火车by train,

乘公共汽车by bus,

骑自行车by bike,

by,用于被动语态，引出动作的执行者

他被他父亲打了。He was hit by his father,

by,不迟于；在 的时候

她现在应该回来了。She should be back by now,

 小姐 miss,

  小姐，需要帮忙吗？ May I help you, miss?,

 没赶上；错过 miss,

 他来晚了，没赶上火车。He arrived too late and missed the train,

 避开 miss,

 如果你走得早，你会避开路上行驶的车辆。  If you go early, you'll miss the traffic,

 想念 miss,

我真的很想你！I really miss you!,

“使烦恼”，“使焦虑”，常接somebody,作宾语。worry,

 什么事使你这么着急？ What worried you so much?,

 他身体不好使他的父母很发愁。  His bad health worried his parents greatly,

“烦恼、担心、发愁”，常跟介词about, 。worry,

 告诉他们不要担心。 Tell them not to worry,

 他们正在为即将到来的考试而发愁。  They are worrying about the coming exam,

“对  担心，忧虑”。（表示一种状态）be worried about,

 不必为约翰担忧，他马上就回来。 Don't worry about John, He'll be back soon,

Don't be worried about John, He'll be back soon,

宁愿选择，更喜欢prefer,

preferred,

 like better,

  更喜欢某物prefer something,

 宁愿选择做某事prefer to do something,

 宁愿选择不做某事prefer not to do something,

 比起B更喜欢Aprefer A to B,

 比起做某事更喜欢做某事prefer doing something to doing something,

 比起做某事更喜欢做某事prefer to do rather than do something,

我更喜欢红色的外套。I prefer the red coat,

我喜欢猫胜过狗。I prefer cats to dogs,

我宁愿看电视也不愿出去约会。I prefer to watch TV rather than go out,

你觉得火星上的生活怎么样？How do you like life on Mars？,

你觉得怎么样？How do you like ?

What do you think of ?,

你觉得这部电影怎么样？这很无聊。How do you like this film?It's very boring,

丹尼尔正在思考未来的生活。Daniel is thinking about life in the future,

考虑think about,

我在考虑穿什么。 I'm thinking about what to wear,

 想起，认为，考虑think of,

我刚才想出了一个解决这个问题的好办法。I thought of a good idea to solve the problem just now,

(反复、仔细)思考，考虑think over ,

让我们考虑一下这个问题，看看谁能先解决它。Let's think over the problem to see who can work out it first,

我希望如此。I hope so,

明天天气好吗？我希望如此。Will it be fine tomorrow?I hope so,

“希望不会如此”I hope not,

他要来参加聚会吗？我希望不是。Is he coming to the party?I hope not,

用at the age of, 时间状语从句改为简单句

我六岁时就能读英语了。I could read English when I was six,

I could read English at the age of six,

用because of把原因状语从句改为简单句

他因病不能来。He couldn't come because he was ill,

He couldn't come because of his illness,

用without把条件状语从句改为简单句

没有你的帮助我无法完成这项工作。I can't finish the work if you don't help me,

I can't finish the work without your help,

用适当地介词，如of、about把宾语从句改为简单句

我们确信他这学期进步很大。We are sure he will make great progress this term,

We are sure about his great progress this term,

We are sure of his great progress this term,

用介词with或without把定语从句改为简单句

我想买一栋有大花园的大房子。I'd like to buy a big house which has a big garden,

I'd like to buy a house with a big garden,