41. fall short of: to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for, causing disappointment 没有达到预期值或标准
- fell short of expectations
- fall short of its goal
- fall short of the best but be better
- fall short by a large amount
43. dilapidated 毁坏的, 要塌似的, 荒废的
- dilapidated buildings
- a dilapidated old car
- a dilapidated old house
(注:学习这个比较难一点的词很有意思。 刚开始的时候,我练了很多次的发音dilapidated, dilapidated... 后来,在生活中当听到有人讲出这个词时,我几乎叫了起来:hold on one sec, 我知道这个词。)
- witin the bounds set for them
- out of bounds
- go beyond reasonable bounds
- know no bounds
- abide by the law
- abide by the judge’s decision
- a considerable degree of latitude
- a fair amount of latitude
- a great deal of latitude
- The judge is normally given almost unlimited latitude in whether or not he listens to a child and how much weight to give to the child’s wishes.
- His leadership kept the team’s esprit de corps intact during difficult periods.
- Esprit de Corps – Canadian Military Books and Magazine.
- be at odds: to disagree
- at odds with (= very different from)
- be at odds with each other
- At Odds with God
- at odds with science
- be at odds over the funding of the project
- espouse a certain ideology
- as espoused by
- espoused by governments
- Charges of corruption have been levelled against him.