资深全职专长P3 GEP及小学英语数学一对一家教 学生2016年PSLE得275!

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pull off 克服困难后完成/实现

- to be able to perform or complete something, especially in the face of hardships, difficulties, or setbacks. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "pull" and "off." 

Congratulations on winning the case! I wasn't sure you'd pull it off. 

If they're able to pull off the merger, they would form the largest single corporation in the world.

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see off

1. When you see someone off, you go with them to the station, airport, or port that they are leaving from, and say goodbye to them there. 送行

Dad had planned a steak dinner for himself after seeing Mum off on her plane.

2. If you see off an opponent, you defeat them.

There is no reason why they cannot see off the Republican challenge.

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bury the hatchet

摒弃前嫌，重归于好

- end a quarrel or conflict and become friendly.

Can't you two just bury the hatchet?

Can you please bury the hatchet and make up with your sister already? I can't take the constant fighting.

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round up

- to find and arrest people

Dozens of political activists have been rounded up for questioning.

All of the asylum seekers from a Vietnamese boat that ran aground in crocodile-infested waters off Australia have been rounded up without incident, media reports said on Tuesday. 

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fume about/over someone or something

- to be very angry about someone or something. 

She was just fuming over her broken vase. 

She was still fuming about Larry the next morning.

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bristled with

- to have a large amount of something, or to be full of something:

The helicopter hovered above them bristling with machine guns.

The whole subject bristles with problems.

The newspapers bristled with tributes to the general.

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From the boat, the salt marsh looks pristine: cloud-dotted sky, brown-blue water, gold-green grass. As we motor along the coast, a flock of egrets flutters into the air, startled by the only humans in sight. Later, I’m equally startled to see an alligator lazing in the shallows.

cloud-dotted sky ... a flock of egrets flutters into the air 蓝天点点白云...一行白鹭上青天，写得多美!

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cut no ice

- have no influence or effect 不起作用

Your holier-than-thou attitude cuts no ice with me.

I'm sorry, but that ridiculous rationale cuts no ice with me and will not change my mind.

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look (all) set (to do something)

- to seem like one is ready or about to do something. 

With her grades this semester, Rachel looks set to be named valedictorian.

China is not only home to some of the biggest solar farms; its technology looks set to influence energy policy across the globe.

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induce - bring about or give rise to

None of these measures induced a change of policy.

It induced home teams to defend to avoid conceding a costly goal.