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Idioms：Satire

Satire

As close as a clam.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
You cackle often, but never lay an egg.
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty. /Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It is a foolish bird that soils its own nest.
A cat has nine lives. /A mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
Beyond the bounds of possibility. /Pigs might fly.
You take more care of your shoe than your foot.
The more I see of men, the more I love dogs.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
The devil sick would be a monk.
Tomorrow comes never.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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Idioms：Warning

Warning

One wrong step may bring a great fall.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Look before you leap.
Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.
Put your finger into the fire, and they say it was your misfortune.
Little chips light great fires.
Nip in the bud. /Crush in the egg.
There is no smoke without fire. /Everything must have a beginning.
The way to be safe is never to feel secure.
The fire which lights us at a distance will burn us when near.
More haste, less speed. /The shortest way round is the longest way home.
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
Too much good fortune is bad fortune.

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Idioms：Encouragement

Encouragement

Rome was not built in a day.
One can’t put back the clock.
If you lie upon roses when young, you’ll lie upon thorns when old.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
Keep it up. /Perseverance will prevail.
Don’t cross a bridge before you come to it. /Don’t meet the trouble half-way.
Catch the tide.
Strike while the iron is hot.
It is no use crying over spilt milk. /What is done can’t be undone.
Fish or cut bait. /Quick to act.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Tower above the rest.
Everyone can reach the top of the ladder.
Right the wrong.
Carry the weight of the world on one’s shoulders.

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Idioms：Expectation

Expectation

April and May are the key of the year.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
Storms make oaks take deeper roots.
He is born in a good hour who gets a good name.
Take it easy.
No pain, no gain.
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
No sweet without sweat.
Anyway, tomorrow is another day.
Now is your time.
After a storm comes a calm.
While there is life there is hope.
Everything is good for something.
Union is strength.
It is better late than never.

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Idioms：Character and Learning

Character and Learning

In doing we learn.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
Practice makes perfect.
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Take a back seat.
Not to advance is to go back.
Even Homer sometimes nods.
Truth may sometimes come out of the devil’s mouth.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
He that falls today may rise tomorrow.
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
Never say die.
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

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Dialogue：Irregular Verbs Ⅲ

Irregular Verbs Ⅲ

speak, spoke, spoken; speed, sped, sped; spell, spelt, spelt.
spend, spent, spent; spill, spilt, spilt; spit, spat, spat.
split, split, split; spoil, spoilt, spoilt; spring, sprang, sprung.
stand, stood, stood; steal, stole, stolen; stick, stuck, stuck.
sting, stung, stung; stink, stank, stunk; stride, strode, stridden.
strike, struck, struck; string, strung, strung; strive, strove, striven.
swear, swore, sworn; sweep, swept swept; swell, swelled, swollen.
swim, swam, swum; swing, swung, swung; take, took, taken.
teach, taught, taught; tear, tore, torn; tell, told, told.
think, thought, thought; throw, threw, thrown; thrust, thrust, thrust.
undergo, underwent, undergone; understand, understood, understood; undertake, undertook, undertaken.
undo, undid, undone; upset, upset, upset; wake, woke, woken.
wear, wore, worn; weep, wept, wept; win, won, won.
wind, wound, wound; withdraw, withdrew, withdrawn; withhold, withheld, withheld.
withstand, withstood, withstood; wring, wrung, wrung; write, wrote, written.

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Dialogue：Irregular Verbs Ⅱ

Irregular Verbs Ⅱ

give, gave, given; go, went, gone; grind, ground, ground.
grow, grew, grown; hang, hung, hung; have, had, had.
hear, heard, heard; hide, hid, hidden; hold, held, held.
keep, kept, kept; know, knew, known; lade, laded, laden.
lay, laid, laid; leave, left, left; lend, lent, lent.
let, let, let; lie, lay, lain; light, lit, lit.
lose, lost, lost; make, made, made; mean, meant, meant.
meet, met, met; misunderstand, misunderstood, misunderstood; overcome, overcame, overcome.
pay, paid, paid; put, put, put; read, read, read.
ride, rode, ridden; ring, rang, rung; rise, rose, risen.
run, ran, run; say, said, said; see, saw, seen.
seek, sought, sought; sell, sold, sold; send, sent, sent.
shine, shone, shone; shoot, shot, shot; show, showed, shown.
shut, shut, shut; sing, sang, sung; sink, sank, sunk.
sit, sat, sat; sleep, slept, slept; smell, smelt, smelt.

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Dialogue：Irregular Verbs Ⅰ

Irregular Verbs Ⅰ

arise, arose, arisen; awake, awoke, awoken; be, was, been.
bear, bore, borne; beat, beat, beaten; become, became, become.
befall, befell, befallen; begin, began begun; bend, bent, bent.
bet, bet, bet; bid, bade, bidden; bind, bound, bound.
bite, bit, bitten; bleed, bled, bled; blow, blew, blown.
break, broke, broken; breed, bred, bred; bring, brought, brought.
build, built, built; burn, burnt, burnt; buy, bought, bought.
catch, caught, caught; choose, chose, chosen; cling, clung, clung.
come, came, come; cost, cost, cost; cut, cut, cut.
dare, dared, dared; deal, dealt, dealt; dig, dug, dug.
do, did, done; draw, drew, drawn; drink, drank, drunk.
drive, drove, driven; eat, ate, eaten; fall, fell, fallen.
feel, felt, felt; fight, fought, fought; find, found, found.
fly, flew, flown; foretell, foretold, foretold; forget, forgot, forgotten.
forsake, forsook, forsaken; freeze, froze, frozen; get, got, gotten.

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Dialogue：Tense, Voice and Mood Ⅲ

Tense, Voice and Mood Ⅲ

I will play the drums for the Christmas celebration.
I will be playing the drums when you come tomorrow.
I will have played the drums for two hours by five o’clock.
At eight o’clock, we will take the bus to go to the amusement park.
Will Professor Wang be taking a walk this afternoon?
He will have taken a bachelor’s degree by the end of this year.
The turtles will lay eggs in the sands there.
The turtles will be laying eggs in the sands there at this time tomorrow.
The turtle will have laid five eggs, if it lays one more.
Next year he will be writing his thesis.
When he comes back from China, he will have written a lot of postcards to me.
If he should be late, we would wait for him.
This subject will be discussed by the specialists seriously.
This subject will be being discussed by the specialists.
This subject will have been discussed by the specialists before this weekend.

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Dialogue：Tense, Voice and Mood Ⅱ

Tense, Voice and Mood Ⅱ

Yesterday, I played the saxophone all day.
He was playing the saxophone happily when I came last night.
Had you ever played the saxophone before then?
After the presentation, we took some flowers for the actress.
While her mother was working, she was taking care of the baby.
He had taken a walk for ten minutes when I met him.
The turtles laid eggs in the sands there this autumn.
The turtles were laying eggs in the sands there when I saw them.
After the turtles had laid eggs in the sands, they went back to the sea.
She told me that she had written a cello concerto.
If I were you, I wouldn’t give up.
If they had come earlier to buy tickets, they would have been able to see the show.
This subject was discussed by the specialists.
This subject was being discussed by the specialists then.
This subject had been discussed by the specialists for three days betore he came here.