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容易混淆的几个单词

hopeless，helpless，hapless

hopeless - feeling or causing despair，without hope

They met at university and fell hopelessly in love.

We were hopelessly lost.

helpless - unable to defend oneself or to act without help.

The cubs are born blind and helpless.

hapless - (especially of a person) unfortunate.

The hapless victims of the disaster.

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distance oneself from someone/sth

— to become or seem less involved or connected with something

The leader has recently distanced himself from the extremists in the party.

The company, trying to build up its environmentally-friendly image, has been distancing itself from its past connections to the oil industry.

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好词好句

Basking in the Bay of Naples, Capri is Italy at its most dazzling. Whitewashed villas burst with purple bougainvillea, yachts putter around the island’s glimmering grottoes and what was once an idyllic home of fishermen is now an exclusive glitterati haunt.

注意 bask，burst with 和 glimmering 的用法。

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gain ground

- become more popular or accepted

New moral attitudes are gaining ground.

There are strong signs that his views are gaining ground.

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be grounded

- a child or young person who is grounded is not allowed to go out as a punishment:

I stayed out til 1 am last night and now I'm grounded for a week.

”You’re grounded!”—most parents heard this at least once during their own childhoods, and many of them see grounding as a valid way to address misbehavior by their kids.

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jolt someone out of

- to give a surprise or shock to (someone) in order to make them act or change

She tried to jolt him out of his depression.

It is May 2018, and my doctor's words jolt me out of a long-standing state of denial.

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sort something out
get/have something sorted

- to make arrangements for something to happen, or to decide how it will happen

Danny’s organizing the food and the music’s already sorted out.

I must sort out my drawers.

I need to sort out all my bills.

I guess it's up to M&S to decide if they've got their security sorted.

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完了！坏了！糟了！中招了！
You are doomed！

It means:

- you have no hope
- you have no chance
- you are in big trouble

you are doomed to a particular state, something unpleasant is certain to happen, and you can do nothing to prevent it.

Example:

Max: Hey Bobby! Did you clean your room?

Bobby: No

Max: You are doomed! Mom is on her way up stairs to check on it.

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bring down the house

- to perform or entertain so successfully as to cause the audience to erupt in applause, laughter, or cheers for a long stretch of time. 

She is a rising star as a stand-up comedian, always able to bring down the house during each performance.

John is a funny comedian. His jokes always bring down the house.

The singer's terrific voice bring down the house.

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out of spite

- with the desire to harm someone or something. In other words, to deliberately hurt someone because they have hurt you (or because you thought they have hurt you)，revenge
有意伤害，报复

I broke up with Sally last week, so yesterday she gave me back all the gifts I gave to her out of spite.

Jane told some evil gossip about Bill out of spite.

That was not an accident! You did it out of spite.