活學(xué)活用
1. freak out
這個片語的意思是“behave or cause to behave irrationally and uncontrollably, with enthusiasm, excitement, fear, or madness 因狂熱、興奮、恐懼或是狂躁而導(dǎo)致行動不理智，緊張，激動等等”，例如：The band's wild playing made the audience freak out. 樂隊的狂野表演把觀眾嚇壞了。
2. cross one's fingers
是指“把一手指交叉在一只手的另一手指上”，以“祝好運氣，心想事成”，比如：We're crossing our fingers and hoping that the weather stays fine. 我們乞求好運，希望天氣能一直好下去。
3. file away
這里的意思是“將文件、資料等歸檔”，比如：File away the letters carefully, please. 請將這些信件仔細歸檔。
4. on the off chance
這個片語的意思是“on the slight but unlikely possibility萬一……，微小的、不大可能的機會/希望”，比如：I came early on the off chance that we might have time to chat. 我早點來是想我們可能會有點時間聊聊的。
文化面面觀
好萊塢女星典范 Jodie Foster
她四度贏得奧斯卡提名，兩度獲獎，還獲得過2座金球獎，3座英國學(xué)院獎以及1座演員公會獎。同時，她還是導(dǎo)演、制片人，所制作、主演的影片也都大獲好評。稱之為“女星典范”，決不為過。
Alicia Christian Foster （born November 19 1962）, better known as Jodie Foster, is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few select actors to have won all four major motion picture acting awards （Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG, and BAFTA awards）.
After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain, followed by several Disney productions. Foster did not experience her breakout role until 1976, when she received moderate recognition but great acclaim for her role as a pre-teenage prostitute in Taxi Driver, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In the early 1980s she was famous for being the object of obsession of John Hinckley, Jr. In 1981 Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan with a .22 caliber pistol, in an attempt to win Foster's favor. （The shooting echoed events in
Foster's 1976 movie Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese.） Having been on TV and in films since she was a toddler, Foster took time off from acting to enroll in Yale, and she graduated in 1985 with a degree in English Literature. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI Agent investigating a serial killer. For this performance she received international acclaim and another Oscar for Best Actress. Her films and roles have spanned a wide variety of genres, including thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's movies, and science fiction. She also has appeared in Bugsy Malone （1976）, Little Man Tate （1991, her directorial debut）, Sommersby （1993, with Richard Gere）, Contact （1997, with Matthew McConaughey）, Anna and the King （1999, with Chow Yun-Fat）, The Panic Room （2002） and Spike Lee's Inside Man （2006, with Clive Owen）. （answers.com）
1. freak out
這個片語的意思是“behave or cause to behave irrationally and uncontrollably, with enthusiasm, excitement, fear, or madness 因狂熱、興奮、恐懼或是狂躁而導(dǎo)致行動不理智，緊張，激動等等”，例如：The band's wild playing made the audience freak out. 樂隊的狂野表演把觀眾嚇壞了。
2. cross one's fingers
是指“把一手指交叉在一只手的另一手指上”，以“祝好運氣，心想事成”，比如：We're crossing our fingers and hoping that the weather stays fine. 我們乞求好運，希望天氣能一直好下去。
3. file away
這里的意思是“將文件、資料等歸檔”，比如：File away the letters carefully, please. 請將這些信件仔細歸檔。
4. on the off chance
這個片語的意思是“on the slight but unlikely possibility萬一……，微小的、不大可能的機會/希望”，比如：I came early on the off chance that we might have time to chat. 我早點來是想我們可能會有點時間聊聊的。
文化面面觀
好萊塢女星典范 Jodie Foster
她四度贏得奧斯卡提名，兩度獲獎，還獲得過2座金球獎，3座英國學(xué)院獎以及1座演員公會獎。同時，她還是導(dǎo)演、制片人，所制作、主演的影片也都大獲好評。稱之為“女星典范”，決不為過。
Alicia Christian Foster （born November 19 1962）, better known as Jodie Foster, is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few select actors to have won all four major motion picture acting awards （Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG, and BAFTA awards）.
After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain, followed by several Disney productions. Foster did not experience her breakout role until 1976, when she received moderate recognition but great acclaim for her role as a pre-teenage prostitute in Taxi Driver, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In the early 1980s she was famous for being the object of obsession of John Hinckley, Jr. In 1981 Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan with a .22 caliber pistol, in an attempt to win Foster's favor. （The shooting echoed events in
Foster's 1976 movie Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese.） Having been on TV and in films since she was a toddler, Foster took time off from acting to enroll in Yale, and she graduated in 1985 with a degree in English Literature. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI Agent investigating a serial killer. For this performance she received international acclaim and another Oscar for Best Actress. Her films and roles have spanned a wide variety of genres, including thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's movies, and science fiction. She also has appeared in Bugsy Malone （1976）, Little Man Tate （1991, her directorial debut）, Sommersby （1993, with Richard Gere）, Contact （1997, with Matthew McConaughey）, Anna and the King （1999, with Chow Yun-Fat）, The Panic Room （2002） and Spike Lee's Inside Man （2006, with Clive Owen）. （answers.com）