| Level
- Hard |
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Word
/ Phrase |
Meaning
|
Translation |
Example
sentence |
Audio |
| 1 |
bar
mitzvah |
A
ceremony to celebrate a boy becoming a man, usually held on
the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy |
猶太男子的成年禮 |
It's
my friend's bar mitzvah next week. I have to wear smart clothes
and listen to him give a speech. |
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|
2 |
boys
will be boys |
Things
boys do |
男孩總歸是男孩 |
My
little brother often fights with his friend, I don't know why.
Boys will be boys! |
|
| 3 |
I'd
better go. |
It's
time for me to go |
我應該離開了 |
I
have a piano lesson in ten minutes. I'd better go. |
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| 4 |
I
didn't see the point |
I don't understand why
|
我不明白為什麼
|
I stopped going to piano lessons when I was 9. I didn't see
the point because I wasn't very good at it. |
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| 5 |
I
don't get it. |
I
don't understand |
我不明白 |
How
did you fail your maths exam after all that revision you did?
I don't get it. |
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|
6 |
I'll
get it |
I'll
answer the door or phone |
我會接聽電話；我會開門 |
The
phone's ringing. I'll get it. |
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| 7 |
split the profits |
Share
the money |
分攤收益 |
My
sister and I are selling our old books. We're going to split
the profits. |
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| 8 |
what felt right to me |
Do
what you feel is right, even if it is not what others do |
做我認為對的事情 |
I
didn't want to go to university after school. I did what felt
right to me and travelled around the world for a year. |
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