词汇积累:
look;
jump-start;
to curry favour with sb；

look [lʊk] n. 看; 寻找;
Don't give me that look!别那样看我！
He gave her a blank look, as if he had no idea who she was.他茫然地看了看她，好像不认识她似的。
Go and have another look.再去找一找。
A close look at the statistics reveals a troubling picture.只要仔细研究一下这些统计数据，就能发现情况有点不妙。
looks，一般为复数，美貌
I don't care about looks. 我不在乎长相的/我看人不看长相。
She's got everything: looks, money and youth.她什么都有，美貌、财富和青春。
You get your good looks from your mother.你继承了你母亲的美貌。
When she lost her looks, she found it difficult to get work.没有了当年的美貌，她觉得找工作变难了。

jump-start v
jump，跳；start，启动，jump start指的是如果一辆汽车上的电池没电发动不了，可以用两根电线把没电的电池和另一辆汽车上的好电池相连，帮助这辆汽车启动，这个过程就叫做jump start，‘跨接起动’。而这两根电线就称为jump cables，跨接电缆线。例子，：
After the movie he found his battery was dead so he had to phone me to come and give him a jump start.等到看完电影，他发现他汽车的电池没电了，于是只得打电话叫我开车去给他的车跨接启动。
jump start常被借用作比喻意义，常用短语为give a jump start to something意思，利用经费等资源，立即开展某件事，听一个长的例句：
The city didn't have enough money to fix the streets so the mayor borrowed money from the state highway fund to give a jump start to an emergency project to fill the potholes.市内没有足够的经费来整修路面，于是市长借用州的高速公路经费来推动开展填补路面凹坑的紧急方案。

to curry favour with another 逢迎；套近乎；讨好
curry一般为名词，意为‘咖哩’；但是这里它作动词，意思是讨好，奉承。而curry favor, 实际上就是拍马屁。
I know why neighbor came bearing fresh-baked cookies. I think it's an attempt to curry favor with me. 我知道我邻居为什么给我刚出炉的饼干了，我觉得她是想跟我套近乎。
Politicians are eager to promote their "happy family" image to curry favour with voters.政客们积极推广其“幸福家庭”的形象以讨好选民。

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