unit6

Unit 6 Section A
The trashman

Haul-vt=pull or move something from one place to another
He hauled his luggage to the nearest hotel.
A lorry hauled the car out of the mud.

Solid-a=without breaks
I was so tired that I slept for twelve solid hours.
I waited for three solid hours and then went home.

Continuous-a=happening or existing without stopping
There was a continuous line of cars stretching for miles.
The brain needs a continuous supply of blood.

Continuously-ad=without stopping
They have worked continuously for five hours.
It has rained continuously here for three days.

Continually-ad
Stop that continual hammering.
I’m tired of the way he continually complaints about everything.

The trees formed a continuous line on the horizon.
The plane landed after flying continuously for 16 hours.

Tremble-vi=shale slightly
He trembled with anger.
His hand was trembling as he picked up his pen to sign.

Head to=go to
I was heading to my office when I met him.
The ship is heading to the harbor.

Dump-vt=drop carelessly; throw away
Don’t dump the sand in the middle of the path.
The factories dumped so much waste material into the rivers that the water became polluted.

Exchange-n=a short conversation
There was an angry exchange between the two.
He was listening carefully to their exchanges.

Make the rounds=go around from one place to another
After school, I had picked up Nick and Ted and made the rounds of the dry cleaner and the grocery store.
We make the rounds of the art galleries.

Approachable-a=friendly and easy to talk to
You’ll find the director a very approachable person.
She’s nice while her husband is not very approachable.

Lengthy-a=very long
A lengthy meeting/speech
They had a lengthy discussion about how to carry out the plan.

Go with=match; suit
These white shoes don’t go with your black trousers.
What color carpet would go with the walls?

Civilized-a=polite and reasonable
A civilized conversation
I believe a civilized man has good manners.

Case-n=a situation that exists
It is simply not the case that educational standards have fallen.
It might be the case in the past, but now it is different.

Register-v
She told me her telephone number, but it didn’t register.
I didn’t say a word, so you didn’t register my presence.

Have you registered the birth of your baby?
How many people have registered for the English exam yet?

Look sb in the eye=look directly at someone
He looked her in the eye but said nothing.
She knew he was lying when he couldn’t look her in the eyes.

At the sound of=as soon as one hears
At the sound of the train, the children jumped with joy, as they knew they would see their father soon.
At the sound of the teacher’s footsteps, they stopped talking.

Retreat-vi=move back or away
I saw a man retreating from the house with a TV set.
A neighbor tried to get into the burning house but he was forced to retreat by the int

ense heat.

Peculiar-a
What a peculiar thing to say!
It’s rather peculiar that we were not given this information until now.

The custom is peculiar to this region.
The problem of racism is not peculiar to this country.

Rage-v=shout angrily at someone
One of the customers was raging at her.
‘ I can’t see it’s any of your business,’ he raged.

n-a strong feeling of anger
He flew into a rage.
Her eyes were full of rage.

Spontaneous-ad
Her successful jump brought a spontaneous cheer from the crowd.
Spontaneously-ad=in a way that happens naturally
Classmates should be spontaneously warm or friendly toward each other.
The crowd burst into applause spontaneously, at the sight of the performer.

‘And’ is used to introduce a result
Move again and I will kill you.=
If you move again, I will kill you.
Five minutes earlier and we would have caught the train.
= If we had been five minutes earlier, we could have caught the train.

Who are you to say…= what right do you have to say…
Who are you to say what I should do?
Who are you to say I’m fired? You are not my boss at all.

Nothing but=only
You are nothing but a thief.
You’ve shown us nothing but kindness.

Boast-v=talk too proudly about one’s abilities, achievements.
Don’t believe her; she’s just boasting.
He boasted that he could speak six languages fluently.

Boast about/of=speak too proudly of
I wish she wouldn’t boast about her family so much.
She boasts of having a big house.

Yell-v=shout
Don’t yell at me. It’s not my fault.
He yelled out orders at everyone.

Stay away from=keep away from; remain at a distance from
I asked you to stay away from those rough boys.
Children should be warned to stay away from fire.

Original-a
The original owner of the house was a Frenchman.
The original meaning of this word is different from the meaning it has nowadays.

There are no original ideas in his work.
Among the writers of his time, he was the most original.

Originally-ad=in the beginning
I’m from London originally, but I left there when I was very young.
It was originally conceived as a biography, but became a novel in the end.

Stay at=remain at
Stay at home while I’m away.
You have to work harder if you want to stay at your job.

Contrary to=completely different and opposed to each other
Contrary to all our advice, he gave up his job.
Contrary to what we hoped, he offered us no help at all.

Frank-a=open and direct in speech or manner
He’s an extremely frank person.
To be perfectly frank with you, I don’t think you’ll pass your driving test.

Frankly-ad=honestly and directly
Frankly, the paper is far from perfect.
Frankly, I think you have very little chance of getting the job.

Leave+n+a+v-ing+v-ed
I left the room clean.
I left the job undone.
I left him waiting at the station.

Look down on
She looked down on the young man and thought he was not worthy of her daughter.
Don

’t look down on those who haven’t had a college education.

Be in for=be going to experience something unpleasant.
The weather report says we are in for a storm.
You’ll be in for trouble when they find out who broke the window.

Neither…nor…
He neither drinks nor smokes.
Neither he nor I have read this book.

Hold water=be true or reasonable
Several of his suggestions about changes in management simply don’t hold water.
His theory about how life on Earth began doesn’t hold water.

Leave behind
I left my gloves behind and now my hands are cold.
They wanted to leave him behind when they went to cinema.