1. pay a visit:访问
注解:要表示“到什么地方访问或者是拜访某人”,在visit的后面用介词to,即:pay a visit to。如果表示多次的访问,去掉a,用visit的复数形式,即:pay visits (to)。
典型例句:I want to take this opportunity of business trip to pay a visit to my friend.
我想利用这次出差机会顺便拜访朋友。
It is the first time that my husband pay a visit to these countries.
这是我丈夫首次前往这些国家访问。
2. set on:倾心于,决心
注解:set on表示“决心,一心,倾心于”的意思时,用于被动语态。它与have连用也表示同样的意思,have后面要跟heart,sights等词语。
典型例句:She's absolutely set on publishing as a career.
她决意从事出版事业。
Ann has her heart set on going to the festival.
Ann一心要去参加庆祝会。
3. think of:打算,考虑
典型例句:It is frightening even to think of the horrors of nuclear war.
核战争的恐怖状况连想都不敢想。
Does she really think of adopting teaching as a profession?
她真想拿教书作正式的职业吗?
4. be pregnant with:有身孕,怀孕
典型例句:She was seven months pregnant with her second child Nate when doctors found the tumor.
当她从医生那里得知自己身患癌症这个噩耗的时候,她的第二个孩子纳特即将出世,她当时已经有了七个月的身孕。
When Mrs. Chao was pregnant with Hsin-mei, everyone thought she would have twins.
赵老太太肚子里怀着他,人家以为她准生双胞。
5. show oneself:展示某人自己
典型例句:Shall I do well, in the mean time, to show myself?
我在这个时候去抛头露面一番好不好呢?
I do not wish to show myself beaten before anyone else.
我不愿让其他人都认为我栽了跟头。