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1、优秀精品课件文档资料,LESSON14 HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE DRUG PROBLEM,At cost 1,For only the amount of money that is needed to make or get sth, without any profit being added on When the salesman said they were selling their products at cost, I didnt believe him,At a cost/at what cost 1,Used to say that it may n
2、ot have been worth doing sth because so much has been lost or damaged as a result He obtained a professorship in the end, but at a cost to his marriage.,At all costs/at any cost 1,We were instructed that the mans life be saved at all costs.,It might be good to do sth 3,Used for making a suggestion,
3、giving advice,To interfere with 3,To prevent sth from succeeding or from being done as planned,End up 4,(mainly spoken) to be in a particular place or state after doing sth or because of doing it It you dont mend your ways, youll end up a criminal,Too bad 5,(spoken) used for saying that you are sorr
4、y or sympathetic about sth Too bad the shoes dont fit you You lost your job? Thats too bad .,To be hooked on sth 8,To find sth so attractive or interesting that you cant stop yourself from doing it .,To have a vested interest in (doing )sth 8,To have a special reason for wanting sth to happen in a p
5、articular way, because you will benefit from this.,To play cops and robbers 8,It is one of childrens favorite games in which some play the good guys, others the bad.,To wither away 9,To become weaker and then disappear,To good to be true 11,So good that you cannot believe that such a situation is po
6、ssible,To lift 13,To officially end a rule or law that stops sb from doing sth,To be alone in (doing )sth 15,(usually in negatives or questions) to be the only person that does sth,Declare/wage war on sth 15,（向。宣战）to make a determined effort to control or stop sth,The beauty of sth 16,The advantage
7、or good quality that sth has .,Forty-fold 18,Forty times larger than before,-fold 18,(suffix) used with numbers to make adjectives and adverbs describing how much sth increases,To direct sth to sb 18,(fml) to turn (a comment, complaint, etc) to a particular place or person,Analogy 18,A comparison be
8、tween two situations, processes, etc, that is intended to show that the two are similar.,Miss the boat 19,To fail to understand sth,A symptom of sth 19,An outward sign of a usually bad or undesirable condition or event,(re)define sth as 21,To show the nature of sth/sb (again or in a new and better w
9、ay ),Minimize 23,To make sth seem much less important than it really is,Outweigh 23,To be more important, useful, or valuable than sth else,(sth) to be here to stay/have come to stay 24,Used for saying that sth is generally accepted and is part of all our lives,Dwarf 25,To make sth seem small or uni
10、mportant,To undercut 26,To sell sth at a lower price than at a price specified,To crack down on sth/sb,To try hard to prevent an illegal activity, or to stop people from getting involved in it and deal more severely with those who are caught doing it,To be enough.to go around,To be enough so that everyone has one or some,
