Unit 1 Never Give In, Never, Never, Never Words and expressions综合教程四

UNIT 1 NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER

Words and expressions

at your Head Master’s kind invitation

at: in response to

Collocation: at one’s invitation/request/suggestion, etc.

e.g. A meeting was arranged at the ambassador’s request.

At my suggestion, Mrs. Carey wrote to her former employer.

catastrophic: a. involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering

Synonym: disastrous

Collocation: catastrophic floods/losses/effects/results

Derivation: catastrophe n.

ups and downs: a mixture of good things and bad things

e.g. Sitting beside the window, he recalled the ups and downs of his parenthood.

position: situation at a particular time

Synonym: situation

e.g. It is time those companies revealed more about their financial position.

Their soccer team is going to be in a very difficult position if nothing particular shows up.

throwing our minds back to our meeting here ten months ago: recollecting our meeting at Harrow School ten months ago

e.g. Please throw your mind back to 1945, when people all over the world were engaged in a great war against the Fascists.

meet with: experience; undergo

e.g. Attempts to find civilian volunteers have met with embarrassing failure.

Efforts to put the Russian space programme into market have met with little success. She was worried that he might have met with an accident.

... imagination makes things out far worse ...: ... what one imagines tends to be worse than reality ...

make out: see or understand

e.g. How do you make that out (= what are your reasons for thinking that)?

[+ wh-] I can’t make out what she wants.

Paraphrase:

I can’t make out how to put it back.

Answer: I don’t know/understand how to put it back.

far-reaching: a. having important and widely applicable effects or implications

Collocation: far-reaching consequences/implications/changes/reforms

e.g. The consequences of the decision will be far-reaching.

They decided to carry on far-reaching constitutional reforms.

conviction: n.

a strong opinion or belief

Collocation: political/moral convictions

e.g. She was motivated by deep religious convictions.

In face of difficulty, he held a conviction that all would be well in the end.

[U] the feeling or appearance of believing sth. strongly or of being sure about it e.g. He said he agreed but his voice lacked conviction.

The leader’s speech in defense of the policy didn’t carry much conviction.

yield: v.

yield (to sth./sb.): (formal or literary) give up control (of)

Synonym: surrender

e.g. After a long siege, the town was forced to yield.

He reluctantly yielded to their demands.

If the newly founded regime does not yield, it should face sufficient military force to ensure its certain defeat.

I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar.

Paraphrase:

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Answer: Never give in or surrender to the seemingly strong enemy.

overwhelming: a. very great in amount

e.g. The evidence against him was overwhelming.

She had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him the truth.

Derivation:

overwhelm: v. defeat or make powerless (usu. a group of people) by much greater force of numbers; e.g. to overwhelm the opposing army

persevere: v. continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no indication of success

Collocation: persevere (in sth. / in doing sth.); persevere (with sth./sb.)

e.g. Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.

She persevered with her violin lessons.

Derivations: persevering a.; perseverance n.

compliment: v. politely congratulate or praise (sb.) for sth.

Collocation: compliment sb. (on sth.)

e.g. She complimented him on his excellent German.

Comparison: compliment & complement

These words have similar spellings but completely different meanings.

If you compliment someone, you say something very nice to them.

If one thing complements another, the two things work or look better because they are together.

Blank filling:

The different flavors ___ each other perfectly.

She ___ me on my English.

(Answer: A. complement; B. complimented)

venture to do sth.: be brave enough to say sth.

Collocation: venture sth.; venture to do sth.; venture + speech; venture that … e.g. She hardly dared to venture an opinion.

She would never venture to ask for a raise.

“And if I say no?” she ventured.

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