2022.05.18

전화영어

 

determine

/dɪˈtɜː.mɪn/

- to control or influence something directly, or to decide what will happen:

 

The number of staff we can take on will be determined by how much money we're allowed to spend.

Officials will determine whether or not the game will be played.

 

vacation (verb)

- to travel to a place in order to relax, when you are not at work or school:

 

Earlier this summer, the family vacationed in Austria.

The town is popular with vacationing Americans.

 

envisage

 /ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/

-to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good:

 

It's hard to envisage how it might happen.

 

a piece of cake

- something that is very easy to do:

 

The exam was a piece of cake.

 

catch up

- to reach the same quality or standard as someone or something else:

He was off school for a while and is finding it hard to catch up.

 

- to do something you did not have time to do earlier:

She's staying late at the office to catch up with/on some reports.

 

-to learn or discuss the latest news:

Let's go for a coffee - I need to catch up on all the gossip

 

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to fall at the first hurdle

- to fail near the beginning of something

 

I'm sorry to say Feifei but I think you're going to fall at the first hurdle.
Plans to construct a new motorway will fall at the first hurdle if they can't buy the farmland to build it on.

 

to brush over

- When you say you will 'brush over' something, it means you will ignore it or not take it that seriously.

 

How old am I? Well, let's just brush over that and say I'm as old as I feel!