短语词组积累

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be sealed with / pick up / be locked in place / of all the nerve / make a sound / get involved in / draw back / get worked up over

1. be sealed with

●sealed - closed or secured with or as if with a seal; determined irrevocably

●my lips are sealed

●the package is still sealed

●his fate is sealed

●"Sealed with a Kiss" is a song written by Peter Udell and Gary Geld.

●When you get baptized, you are sealed with the holy spirit.

be fastened to:

●The dog's leash was fastened to a post

be taped to:

●A note was taped to the refrigerator.

●be attached to:

●He is attached to her.

●Jeff is attached to this group.

2. pick up

1) To take up or collect: pick up a book; pick up pebbles.

She picked up the children at the day care center

2) To take on passengers or freight: The bus picks up commuters / hitchhikers on the mountain road.

3) To acquire casually or by accident: picked up a new coat on sale; pick up French quickly; pick up a virus at school.

4) To take into custody: The agents picked up a smuggler.

5) To come upon and follow: The dog picked up the scent.

6) To continue after a break: pick up the discussion / topic after lunch.

pick apart:

To refute or find flaws in: The lawyer picked the testimony apart.

pick at:

To eat sparingly or without appetite: The child just picked at the food.

pick off:

To shoot after singling out: The hunter picked the ducks off one by one.

pick on: To tease or bully.

pick out: To choose or select: picked out a nice watch.

pick over:To sort out or examine item by item: picked over the grapes before buying them.

3. be locked in place

●To fix in place so that movement or escape is impossible; hold fast:

●The ship was locked in the ice through the winter.

●She felt that she had become locked into a binding agreement.

4. of all the nerve

●(informal) How rude!

●What a nerve!

●Bob: Lady, get the devil out of my way!

●Mary: Of all the nerve! (What a nerve!)

●Jane: You can't have that one! I saw it first!

●Sue: Of all the nerve! I can too have it!

5. make a sound

to produce a sound

Synonyms: tap out, let out, pitch, emit, utter, voice

6. get involved in

●connected by participation or association

●I don't want to get involved.

●Everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified.

●Antonym: uninvolved — not involved

●being uninvolved he remained objective

●absorbed in, fascinated by, immersed in, captivated by, enthralled by: She was so involved in her career she had no time for fun.

●Having a sexual relationship: They see a lot of each other but aren't involved.

7. draw back

●pull back or move away or backward

●But he could not draw back from the generous word when it was once uttered, even though he felt now, vaguely foreseeing certain eventualities in his intrigue with Madame Karenina, that this generous word had been spoken thoughtlessly, and that even though he were not married he might need all the hundred thousand of income.

●From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Idioms:

●draw straws:

●To decide by a lottery with straws of unequal lengths 抽签

●draw the line:

●To decide firmly an arbitrary boundary between two things

8. get worked up over

●worked up (over/about)

●adj. excited and agitated about something. (Typically: be ~; get ~; get oneself ~.)

●Tom is all worked up over the tax increase.

●Don't get so worked up about something that you

●can't do anything about.

●she was worked up about all the noise.