1 takes one for the team

为了全队挨一下（为了集体的利益，牺牲个人利益）

He always takes one for the team. = He always sacrifices his own interests for the group's better interest.

他总能为了集体的利益而牺牲个人的利益。

（例子）I took one for the team when my pay was lowered but the company could expand.

把我的薪水调低了，公司以此有了更多的资金扩展业务。这是我为了公司的利益，牺牲个人的利益。

2 活学活用

中译英：在现时代，我们是否还要发扬这种牺牲个人利益的精神呢？

英译中：Through Word Parts

Now for the next step. Often new words contain one or more parts, which, if recognized, provide specific help with meaning. Suppose you read that someone "had a preference for reading travel books." The context certainly isn't too helpful. But do you see a prefix, suffix, or root that you know? Well, there's the familiar prefix pre-, meaning "before" look back at the context and try inserting "before." Reading travel books apparently comes "before" other kinds of reading. Yes, a preference is something put "before" something else.

3 语法 构词法

（2）构成形容词的后缀有：-able -ible -al -ful -less -ish -ive -ous -an -ic -ly -y -ant -ent -ary -en等。

例如：available, suitable, responsible, permissible, natural, national, powerful, faithful, fearless, useless, selfish, childish, collective, decisive, famous, continuous, American, European, historic, scientific, friendly, lively, thirsty, noisy, significant, pleasant, dependent consistent, secondary, imaginary, golden, wooden等

1 grasp for straws

抓稻草（绝望中挣扎）

He was grasping for straws. = He was guessing desperately or searching for answers without many clues.

他完全不知道答案，所以正在瞎猜，这是绝望中挣扎。

例子：Right now the police are only grasping for straws, but they think that they will soon know who the killer was .

现在警方不过是在瞎猜，但是他门觉得不久就能猜出杀人犯是谁。

今天我想说一下现在很流行的一样外设：“跳舞毯”。昨天帮一位朋友去买了一条，在市场里兜了半天。终于以55圆的价钱买下了（一定要狠狠的砍！）。回家试了一试，感觉不错。如果大家在电脑前忙碌了半天，可以用此物放松一下神经，做一下锻炼吧。是物有所值的。

1 landslide

山崩（压倒性的胜利）

The election was landslide. = One person won the election very easily.

一位候选人大获全胜。

例子：At work, we decided to vote for where we want to eat, and pizza won by a landslide.