短语

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.

这句话的中文和英文我对照后有些不解，请问：ring off the hook 是个短语吗，什么意思？

The Riot Act, which was not repealed until 1973,became a part of the public consciousness literally (the term is firstrecorded in 1731)and then figuratively in the phrase to read the riot act, meaning "to warn forcefully."

取缔闹事法"直到1973年才废止，从字面意义上讲，它成为公众意识的一部分（该词最早记录于1731年），而从比喻意义上说用在短语 to read the riot act 中，表示"严正警告。

The Riot Act, which was not repealed until 1973, became a part of the public consciousness literally (the term is first recorded in 1731) and then figuratively in the phrase to read the riot act, meaning 搕o warn forcefully.?

取缔闹事法"直到1973年才废止，从字面意义上讲，它成为公众意识的一部分（该词最早记录于1731年），而从比喻意义上说用在短语 to read the riot act中，表示"严正警告。

And these traditions are expressed in a specific rit.

例如人人熟知的lose heart。这些短语在长期的使用过程中，意义上产生了。

Vicki: Well, before we leave maybe we should go and see if we can get on a riverboat tour.

Chen Li：首先，我们来复习节目第二部分使用到的一些单词和短语。

The red and the white rose were withering in the cold.

但在下列省略了and后的冠词的短语作主语，仍视为复数名词。

It's not so much the sounds of Rossini's "Thieving Magpie Overture" or a swinging "Valencia" we hear as those of children's laughter when the world was young and the brass ring there for the grabbing.

勤俭持家的人是不可能这样做的，所以引申义是"某人将金钱挥霍掉"，而这个短语中"burn"本来就有"挥霍"的意思，例如在19世纪美国铁路日志上的一段话：。。

It's not so much the sounds of Rossini's "Thieving Ma gpie Overture" or a swinging "Valencia" we hear as those of children's laughter when the w orld was young and the brass ring there for the grabbing.

勤俭持家的人是不可能这样做的，所以引申义是"某人将金钱挥霍掉"，而这个短语中"burn"本来就有"挥霍"的意思，例如在 19 世纪美国铁路日志上的一段话：。。

In the reading passage, writer gives an antisocial example about deindividualization that a normally well-behaved people may behave antisocially when he or she becomes a part of vandalism or rowdiness .

一些单词词性的错误使用、固定短语搭配的错误使用以及其他一些不该犯的低级语法错误，这些都会让阅卷人对考生的英文功底产生质疑。

There are some words and phrases you should understand in the context of RT before you begin.

在您开始前，您应该理解在 RT 背景下的一些单词和短语。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。