⑤The doctor treated Mike for his headache with a new drug but didn't cure him of it.
医生用一种新药给迈克治疗头痛,但没把他治好。
3.(教材P37)postpone vt.推迟;延期
postpone ... until/to ... 把......推迟到......时候
postpone doing sth. 推迟做某事
①It has been decided the meeting should be postponed until/to next Saturday.
已经决定,会议延期到下星期六举行。
②It was an unpopular decision to postpone building (build) the new hospital.
延迟建新医院的决定是不得人心的。
[巧学助记]
[名师点津] 除了postpone以外,表示"推迟,延期"的单词或短语还有:delay, put off;它们后接动词作宾语时,要用动名词而不用不定式。
4.(教材P37)I decided not to put off studying (as I normally do!) and got up early every morning to get down to work straight away.
我决定不推迟学习(就像我往常所做的!),每天早上早起立即着手工作。
straight away/off 立刻,马上,毫不犹豫
①My teacher asked me to go to his office after class straight away/off.
老师让我下课后立刻去他办公室。
②I wrote him an email and clicked to send it straight away_/off.
我给他写了封电子邮件,并马上点击发送了出去。
[名师点津] 表示"立刻,马上"的词语还有:at once, immediately, directly, right now, right away, in no time
5.(教材P37)If I didn't understand something, I'd write it down and then bring it up in class with my teacher.
如果有不明白的地方,我会记下来,然后在课上向我的老师提出来。
bring up
(1)提出
①He brought up a practical plan in the meeting, which brought down the cost of production.
他在会上提出了一个切实可行的计划,从而降低了生产成本。
(2)养育;抚养
②His parents died when he was born and he was_brought_up by his uncle.
他出生时父母便去世了,他是被他的叔叔抚养大的。
(3)呕吐
③He was drunk and_brought_up what he had eaten at midnight.
他喝醉了,半夜里把吃的东西都吐了出来。
[巧学助记]
[名师点津] bring构成的其他短语:
①bring in请......做;让......参与;引入;提出(新法案);赚得;挣
②bring down减少;打落;打垮;击败