Trailed off 声音逐渐弱到不出声
Her voice trailed off.
On the order of 大约
equipment costing on the order of a million dollars.
花费近百万美元的设备
in sb‘s place 处于谁的情况
Try to put yourself in my place and think how you would feel.
Get to sb. 影响某人
I has become fashionable to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fast-moving, impatient public.
Feed on sth 受到…滋养
Hatred feeds on envy. 因妒生恨。
Think up 想出
She was trying to think up an excuse
In the shape of 以…的形式
This one was very young, with inexperience even in the shape of his mustache which he had shaved too much on the left side.
他非常年轻,从他胡子的形状看,他很缺乏经验,他左侧的胡子乔得太多了。
Number off 报数
Go away 走开
Draw lots 抽签,抓阄
Go by 遵照
We must draw lots, unless it is thought that we should go by ages.
Get off (with sth.)
免受处罚
got off scot-free. 逍遥法外
picture sth to oneself 想象或设想某事物
This isn‘t the last draw we shall have, and picture to yourselves what it will be like in this cell if we have a privileged class.
Leave sb/sth out of sth 排除在外
Kidd has been left out of the team.
Have it/things/everything one‘s own way
Have it your own way. 按你的意思办吧
Scrap of paper 纸片
Feel for 摸索,寻找
In one‘s favor 占优势
an error in our favor. 对我方有益的错误
force on sb 勉强某人接受某事物
let sth drop 不再做或提某事(人)
Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers, others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip and when thety had drawn one little way from the shoe would let it drop again an choose another.
Break up 结束
Like a game of cards which has gone on too long, he only wanted someone to make a move and break up the table(game)。
Go over (from…
)
(to…
)
从一处到另一处
Draw out 抽出
He went over to his roll of bedding and drew out a writing pad.
他走到他的铺盖卷,拿出一打书写纸。
Saving grace 长处,可取之处
Humor is the saving grace of us.