【英语词组】恋恋不忘Day6-3

a big deal

Let’s not forget sports——in male-dominated corporate America,it’s still a big deal.
让我们不要忘记运动——在男性为主导的美国公司中，运动依旧是一件大事情。
拓 a good/great deal of 很多；大量

switch to

At Boston College,for example,you would have to complete an extra year were you to switch to the nursing school from another department.
举例来说，在波士顿，如果你想要从其他院系转到护理学院，那你就必须额外多读一年。

volunteer to

They volunteer to set up an equally big habitat.
他们自愿建立一个同样大的栖息地。
拓 of one’s own accord 自愿的,主动地
voluntarily 自愿的

for good

Certain jobs have gone away for good,outmoded by machines.
一些工作岗位已经被机器淘汰，一去不返了。
拓 once and for all 一劳永逸的；彻底的

cater to

Demand comes mainly from two sources:independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which,unlike large retail chains,are too small to buy straight from producers,and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.
需求主要来源于两个方面：一是独立经营的夫妻杂货铺，一是饮食服务运营商。前者不同于大型零售连锁店，其规模太小，因此无力从厂商直接进货；后者则主要迎合那些外出就餐的消费者。

a piece of cake

Yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it,raising a kid on their “own”(read:with round-the-clock help)is a piece of cake.
然而，xxx和xxx却说，“独自”抚养孩子（注意：身边全天候的助手帮忙）简直是小菜一碟。

get rid of

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable,teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.
尽管许多证据都表明，教师素质是影响教育水平最重要的变量，但教师工会还是反对开除差老师、提拔好老师。

on average

It is true that CEO pay has gone up——top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average,and since the mid-1970s,CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has,by varying estimates,gone up by about 500%.
没错，首席执行官的薪酬上涨了——最高的首席执行官的薪酬可能是普通远平均薪酬的300倍，而且，据多方估计，自20世纪70年代以来，美国大型上市公司首席执行官的薪酬上涨了500%。
拓 above/below average 高于/低于平均水平

cannot be anything other than

The Europe that is now forming cannot be anything other than its peoples,their cultures and national identities.
欧洲现在形成的正是它的民族、各民族的文化和国家特色。

escape from

In fact,circumstances seem to be designed to bring
out the best in us,and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.
事实上，环境似乎旨在激发我们的最大潜能，如果我们总感觉：“上天不公”，那么就不太可能有意识的去努力摆脱现状。
拓 get away from 摆脱
flee 逃离

bring back

You can bring back your recyclable cans and bottles,but please rinse them out frist.
你可以把可回收的瓶瓶罐罐带回来，但请先把他们清理干净。
rinse 清理干净

fall short

They fell far short of the required qualifications.
题目远达不到要求的资格。

thirst for

The thirst for better education is strong for those people.
那些人强烈渴望获得更好的教育。
拓 yearn for =be keen to/on=long for sth渴望
thirst for=first（第一）=第一想做的事情=thirst for 渴望

to the effect that

Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.
科学家们急忙介入，但是提出的证据显然站不住脚，其大意是：如果鸟类不能控制害虫的数量，害虫就好吞噬我们人类。
distinctly 明显的
shaky =shark鲨鱼=鲨鱼总是摇摆不定的=shaky摇摆的；不可靠的
拓 general idea 大意

take measures

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe,urgent circumstances,and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while waiting for a warrant.
在面临严重和紧急的情况时，他们还可以不受第四修正案保护条款的约束，在等搜查令下来的过程中采取合理的措施确保手机中的数据不被删除或修改。

offer to

DNA testing is also the latest rage among passionate genealogists——and supports businesses that offer to search for a family’s geographic roots.
基因检测不仅受到热心的系谱学家的热烈追捧，而且也成为提供家族地域溯源服务的公司的技术支持。
among 在…中间
passionate 热情的

in the wake of

The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.
联邦巡回法院的行动是继最高法院最近出台的一系列决议之后展开的，这些决议缩小了专利持有者的保护范围。

cast doubt on

History has never cast doubt on them.
历史从未质疑过它们。

leave sb.in the dark

While more families buck an older-generation proclivity to leave kids in the dark about real estate decisions,realty agents and psychologists have mixed views about the financial,personal and long-term efforts kids’ opinions may have.
越来越多的家庭反对老一辈让孩子对房产决策一无所知的倾向，与此同时，房地产中介和心理学家对孩子的意见可能带来的财务、个人和长期影响看法不一。
proclivity=pro（提前）+cli（climate气候）=提前预知气候的倾向=proclivity 倾向
estate 房地产

hand out

G.I. is just a military abbreviation implying Government Issue,and it was on all of the articles handed out to soldiers.
"G.I."只不过是“政府事务”的军事缩写，在分发给士兵的所有物品中都有这个名称。
military=mili（迷你）=迷彩服=military军事
abbreviation =（abb）=缩写
soldier=so（如此）l（站着的人）=soldier士兵

not…until

Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we don’t always think about the emotional significance of the day’s event——until,it appears,we begin to dream.
因为清醒时我们的意识被日常琐事占据着，所以并不总去思考白天发生的事情对我们情绪的影响，似乎直到我们开始做梦，这种影响才会显现。

die of

Many of the ships were lost in storms,many passengers died of disease,and infants rarely survived the journey.
许多船只在暴风雨中迷失，许多乘客被疾病夺取生命，很少有婴儿能在这次旅程中存活下来。
infant=in(里面)fan（饭）=里面装饭=infant婴儿
die of 死于内因
die from 死于外因

press forward

When our time of mourning is over,we press forward,stronger with a greater understanding and respect for life.
哀伤过后，我们要努力向前，我们会因为对生活的更多理解和敬重而愈加坚强。

live with

During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.
在大萧条和二战时期，美国人已经学会了适应物资匮乏。于是，这种对物欲的克制，连同战后人们特有的对未来的信心，使得窄小但利用率高的房子绝对风靡。
restraint 抑制；克制