1、 She soon called my attention to the fact that she couldn’t work full time and keep house, too.

　　注意的词语：call attention to(唤起注意)、keep house(当家)

　　2、 I guess I just took it for granted that a wife was supposed to take care of her kids and husband.

　　注意的词语：take it for granted：(视为当然)、be supposed to：(应该、被期望)

　　3、 You’ve got to get to know them.

　　注意的词语：have got to do：(必须做……)、get to：(在这里作“开始”的意思)

　　4、 But maybe I’d better take that back and give her a hand.

　　注意的词语：take bake：(在这里作“取消”的意思)、give Sb. A hand(抽出空或腾出手帮助某人)

　　5、 They put me in mood for Italian food.

　　注意的词语：put in mind：(使记起、提醒)

　　6、 I’ve put aside some money that I earned by doing some extra mechanical work.

　　注意的词语：put aside：(储存、备用)

　　7、 I was putting a machine together today.

　　注意的词语：put together：(把……加起来、装配)

　　8、 I am putting forth a lot of effect to make this tablecloth.

　　注意的词语：put forth：(生出、作出)

　　9、 Do you want me to put my needlework away?

　　注意的词语：put away：(在这里作“放弃、处理掉”的意思)

　　此要注意一下五个以“put”打头的短语与词组的用法

　　10、I was going by the store near your house ..

　　注意的词语：go by：(顺便走访)

　　11、Your black purse and shoes go nicely with that dress.

　　注意的词语：go with：(伴随、与……相配)

　　12、He always goes beyond my expectations.

　　注意的词语：go beyond：(超出)

　　13、The kids can’t go along with you.

　　注意的词语：go along with：(一起去、附和)

　　14、Your offer goes to prove that you’re a wonderful mother-in-law.

　　注意的词语：offer：(在这里作为“提意”的意思)、go to：(愿意为定位、转到的意思，在这里引申为?)

　　15、You know I get sick every single time the temperature goes below 68°.

　　注意的词语：go below：(下降)

　　此要注意一下五个以“go”打头的短语与词组的用法

　　16、I could really go for a good #edy.

　　注意的词语：go for：(在这里作为“主张”的意思)

　　17、we can barely make ends meet.

　　注意的词语：ends meet：指收支平衡

　　18、Every thing I say goes in one ear and out the other.

　　注意的词语：goes in one ear and out the other.：(一个耳朵进，一个耳朵出。指听不进去的意思)

　　练习：

　　If a #puter were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look sonething like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma and calm authority as chaos arises.

　　That the U.N. in 1996 found such a person to restore its sense of direction and purpose was a near miracle. But out of the U.N.’s failures in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda came Kopi Annan, the career international civil servant who had participated in these disasters yet somehow survived and learned from them.

　　Today Annan is in the middle of his second term. His task is not finished, and the U.N. is still far from what it should be. But Annan has tested the limits of the job, accumulating more authority-one cannot use the word power, given the constraints the U.N. system places on him-than any of his predecessors.

　　His #plex relationship with the U.S. government is little understood. When Annan takes positions in public that are displeasing to the bush administration, it unleashes its attack dogs. Yet when administration officials found their policies in Iraq floundering, they asked the U.N. for help. Some observers told Annan that he should responsibility was to the cause of stabilizing Iraq. He began to work toward the decisive date of June 30, when the u.s. will hand over control to Iraqi authorities and an uncertain situation will prevail determined by factors way beyond his, or anyone else’s, ability to control. But it is Annan’s destiny to be handed the very worst problems after they have been unsuccessfully addressed by others. Anyone who knows him knows he wades into such problems with his usual blend of courage, self-control, modesty and optimism.