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slip up on something

- to make a careless error.

They often slipped up when it came to spelling.

Last year，he had lost the trophy to Augustine Lim after slipped up on the spelling for 'nemesis'.

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give a statement to the police

- to provide a statement which is a written or in certain circumstances a video-recorded account of what happened and may be used as evidence in court

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well up

- to rise to the edge of a container, ready to flow 要涌出来，溢出来

Lava welled up in the crater.

Tears welled up in my eyes, but I did not cry.

I could feel anger well up in.

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pipe up - say something suddenly.

"‘I'll go,” I piped up.

In the silence that followed, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room.

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容易混淆的几个单词

hopeless，helpless，hapless

hopeless - feeling or causing despair，without hope

They met at university and fell hopelessly in love.

We were hopelessly lost.

helpless - unable to defend oneself or to act without help.

The cubs are born blind and helpless.

hapless - (especially of a person) unfortunate.

The hapless victims of the disaster.

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distance oneself from someone/sth

— to become or seem less involved or connected with something

The leader has recently distanced himself from the extremists in the party.

The company, trying to build up its environmentally-friendly image, has been distancing itself from its past connections to the oil industry.

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好词好句

Basking in the Bay of Naples, Capri is Italy at its most dazzling. Whitewashed villas burst with purple bougainvillea, yachts putter around the island’s glimmering grottoes and what was once an idyllic home of fishermen is now an exclusive glitterati haunt.

注意 bask，burst with 和 glimmering 的用法。

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gain ground

- become more popular or accepted

New moral attitudes are gaining ground.

There are strong signs that his views are gaining ground.

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be grounded

- a child or young person who is grounded is not allowed to go out as a punishment:

I stayed out til 1 am last night and now I'm grounded for a week.

”You’re grounded!”—most parents heard this at least once during their own childhoods, and many of them see grounding as a valid way to address misbehavior by their kids.

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jolt someone out of

- to give a surprise or shock to (someone) in order to make them act or change

She tried to jolt him out of his depression.

It is May 2018, and my doctor's words jolt me out of a long-standing state of denial.