1, take in take off take on take over take up
1. take in 接受, 吸收, 理解, 包括, 欺骗 As they didn’t take in what he said, he took all of them in.
2. take off 拿掉, 取消, 脱衣, 起飞 Don’t take your coat off. The plane will take off soon.
3. take on 披上, 呈现, 具有, 雇用, 承担 With the sun setting, the village takes on a golden look.
4. take over 把. . . 从一地带到另一地, 接收, 接管 Mr. Li has fallen ill, so you have to take over the office work.
5. take up 拿起, 开始从事, 占据, 参加进来 Since he took up Majiang, it has taken up most of his spare time. Worse still, his son has taken it up too.
2， turn to turn off turn on turn up turn down turn out turn over turn into
1. turn to 转向, 变成, 求助于, 致力于 If you run into trouble, you may turn to my friend there for help.
2. turn off 关掉 You must turn the light off when you leave.
3. turn on 开启, 依靠 Every design turned on the chief engineer.
4. turn down (被)向下折转, 拒绝, 降低 He turned town the request of turning the radio down a little.
5. turn up 找到, 发现, 出现，调高 When the guests turned up, he turned up the music and they began to dance.
6. turn out 结果是，生产 Everything turned out fine. The factory turned out more cell phones than last year.
7. turn over 打翻, 移交给， 翻身 The bus turned over and destroyed the crops in the field.
8. turn into 进入, (使)变成 What can turn a kind young man into a merciless devil?
另类阅读：
The weather turned out rainy. In order to avoid the car turning over, he turned the light off and turned on the radio. Suddenly, a boy turned up and turned to him for a lift. He was too kind to turn him down. So he opened the door and turned the back seat into a bed for the boy.
3. work at work on work out
1. work at 从事, 致力于, 钻研(克服困难完成任务) You’ll overcome the problem in learning a language if you really work at it.
2. work on 继续工作, 设法说服, 影响, 钻研（努力钻研学问或研制新的技术） The students worked on the texts independently.
3. work out 可以解决, 设计出, 计算出 Have you work out the maths problem yet?
4. let out let in let be let alone let off
1. let out 放掉, 泄露, 放大 The boy let out a cry.
2. let in, 放进, 允许. . . 进入 There is someone at the door. Will you please go and let him in?
3. let be [口]随[它]去任[它]那样 Let it be! Mother often tells me to let it be.
4. let alone 不管, 不打扰 Let me alone! I’m too busy.
5. let off 放出, 饶恕 I won’t let you off if you make the same mistake again.
6. let down 使失望 I hoped Mr. James would help me, but he let me down.
5. be in be out be out of be over be up be up to
1. be in 在家, 上市季节 Is Mrs. Li in? I want him to go shopping with me. You see, peaches are in these days. They are quite cheap at present.
2. be out 开花, 发行, 熄灭, 不在 The light is out. Mr. Li must be out. As his new book is out, he may be advertising it where flowers are out.
3. be out of 没有, 脱离The wounded are not out of danger yet.
4. be over 结束 The game is over.
5. be up 起床, 时间到了 Time is up. Be up in two minutes!
6. be up to 做，某人的责任 What is he up to these days? It’s up to you to find it out.
6. break down break in break into break off break out break up
1. break down 坏了, 倒塌, 中止, 垮掉, 分解 Bad luck! Our car broke down near a bridge that had just broken down. The meeting had to break down.
2. break in 闯入, 打断 It’s bad manners to break in when they are chatting.
3. break into 破门而入, 侵占 The bank was broken into. Fortunately, nothing was missing as the alarm sounded in time.
4. break up 打碎, 结束, 衰落, 分解,驱散 The police broke up the crowd who were breaking the windows up.
5. break off 中断, 折断, 突然停止, 脱落 The boy fell when the branch broke off.
6. break out 突发, 爆发 Unluckily, the war broke out against all kind hearts.
另类阅读：
After breakfast, the meeting went on but soon broke up/off. A man broke in with the news that the war had broken out. What’s worse, their car broke down on the way back.
7. bring about bring on bring out bring up bring in
1. bring up 教育, 培养 Tom was brought up by his aunt Polly.
2. bring in 挣得, 介绍引进 It’s necessary to bring in modern management.
3. bring back 拿回来, 使回忆起来, 使恢复 The picture brought back our childhood.
4. bring down 打倒, 降低 Can you bring the price down a little?
5. bring about 使发生, 致使 I’m afraid it will bring out some bad influence on the children .
6. bring out 使显示, 出版, 生产, 说出 Can you give me an example to bring out the meaning of this phrase?
7. bring on 引起, 导致, 使发展 I believe the idea will bring our cause on.
另类阅读
Would you like to fetch me some paper? You may take some box with you and then bring them back. What? They have carried out their plan for the price? Try to bring it down, otherwise, we will have no money to bring in the new equipment, which is sure to bring out disadvantages soon. Anyhow, our work must carry on.
8. call at call for call in call off call on call out
1. call for 要求, 提倡 The project calls for our cooperation.
2. call on 号召, 呼吁, 访问（某人） We will call on him during our stay in Beijing.
3. call at 访问（某地）,停靠 I called at the doctor’s just now.
4. call in 召集, 召来, 来访 I’m too busy. Will you call in a doctor, please?
5. call out 大声叫唤 The boy called out, “Stop the thief!”
6. call up 召唤, 使想起, 打电话给 Stay at home until I call you up.
7. call by 顺道访问 He came to the school and called by his teacher.
另类阅读：
He made a telephone call in a phone booth just now. He said he would call on us at our office and that he had dialed a doctor’s number and called him in. He was right. We called for a doctor at that time.
9. carry out carry on
1. carry out 完成, 实现, 贯彻, 执行 Through a month’s hard work, he carried out his plan.
2. carry on 继续开展, 坚持 Though he had got a good mark, he still carried on.
10. come about come across come along come by come on come over come to come up
1. come about 发生, 产生 When did the newspaper come about?
2. come across 来到, 偶遇 I was surprised to come across an old friend of mine in Chongqing last week.
3. come along 出现, 发生 If there comes along an opportunity to practice English, do take it!
4. come by 从旁走过, 得到, 取得, 经过 Jobs are hard to come by at present.
5. come on. 突然产生, 跟着来, 上演, 快点,赶快 Come on, boy. The play will come on in no time.
6. come over 过来, 抓住 Come over, boy, Here is an apple for you.
8. come to 达到, 复苏, 想起, 共计 It came to me that the total number came to 3000.
9. come up 走近, 发芽, 被提出,上升, 出现He came up and told me that the potatoes we sowed had come up.
11. cut down cut in cut off cut up
1. cut down 砍倒, 胜过, 削减 Lots of trees have to be cut down to cut down the price of wood.
2. cut in 插嘴, 插入 The boy was too rude to cut in while we were talking.
3. cut off 切断, 断绝 The power was cut off during the hurricane.
4. cut up 切碎, 使丧气, 胡闹 Mother cut up the meat to make meat balls for us.
12. do up do with do away with do in
1. do up 束起, 重新整修, 收拾齐整, 包好 Do up your bed, your bag and you trousers. We will start soon.
2. do with 利用, 忍受 What can we do with these waste bags?
3. do away with 废除, 弄死 The unfair rule must be done away with at once.
4. do in 欺骗 Mrs. Smith was done in by three cheats who claimed that they were collecting money for orphans.
13. get down get down to get in get off get on get on with get out get over get through get to get up
1. get down (从. . . )下来, 吞下, 写下, 使沮丧 A second failure in getting down the pills got her down.
2. get down to 开始认真考虑 After we got home, we got down to planning the birthday party.
3. get in 进入, 收获, 插入, 陷入 At this moment, the farmers are busy getting in their rice.
4. get off 下来, 脱下, 出发, 动身, 开始 Get your hat off and we will get off for the school soon.
5. get on 生活, 融洽相处, 进展, (使)前进
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