awayThe beach is only five minutes away(=it only takes five minutes to get there).5if aneventis two days, three weeks etc away, it will happen after thatperiodof time has passedChristmas is only a month away.6used to say how close someone is toachievingsomething orexperiencingsomethingaway...
a desperate effort (=one you make when you are in a very bad situation)The fox made a desperate effort to get away.a concerted effort (=involving a lot of different actions, or a lot of people working together)It will take a concerted effort to change the culture of binge-drinking in...
la última vez, me sale el catálogo, pero después no hay noticias, en realidad no estoy claro con su significado mediante el envío de su catálogo a mí, así que puede que me explique 翻译结果2复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 上次,我获取你的目录,但是过后没有新闻,实际上我通过将你的目...
2 [intransitive] formal to have sex→ couple something with something→ Ver Tabla de verbos Ejemplos desde el Corpuscouple• Efficiency is improved by coupling large numbers of boxcars together.• This meant, I assumed, that men coupled on the premises.• And Feinstein had voted for an ...
away froma movement towards equality with men in the workplace4→somebody’s movements5music[countable]one of themainparts into which a piece ofmusicisdivided, especially asymphony6clock/watch[countable usually singular]the moving parts of a piece ofmachinery, especially aclockor watch7body waste...
behaviour andattitudesthat most people in asocietyconsiderto benormaland rightSYNcustomPlaying together teaches childrensocial conventionssuch as sharing.Theydefiedtheconventionsof the time by living together without being married.by conventionBy convention, the bride’s father gives her away at her ...
(=produce a lot of tears)I didn’t know if she would get well, and I wept buckets every night.phrasesbreak down and weep(=start crying)As she watched his plane taxi away, she broke down and wept.weep and wail(=cry and make loud sad noises – often used humorously)The baby wept ...
3 → fan a fire/flame etc→ fan out→ Ver Tabla de verbos Ejemplos desde el Corpusfan• Gina fanned herself with a newspaper.• If the bird fans its tail and has a shiny black breast color, it's a male.• Some politicians are deliberately fanning nationalist emotions.• So they...
visibilitywas down to fiftyyards.•LostJaguarandbutterfliesNext door, Steve Fischerwadedthrough hisfrontyard.•Theshipwill be moved to the PhiladelphiaNavalYardnext year.•Theballlanded in the neighbors'yard.•Tenyardsto go and he heard the driver of theDiscoveryaccelerateaway from theroadblock...
nail•HisDadkept it hanging on anailin theshedand he'd havenoticedright away if it wasmissing.•NurseDuckett satbuffinghernails.•She came again, her bodywrackedwithspasms, hernailstearinginto his arms.•The deeplyincisedDE/ED made with ared-hotnailwasvisiblefor anyone to see.•I too...