托福考试：听力解题必备习语（2）
在完成托福听力时偶尔大家会遇到一些感觉既熟悉又陌生的英语习语，习语不同于普通单词能轻易在字典里找到准确含义，必须要大家结合英美文化来理解才能保证准确。以下是一位托福培训名师总结整理的托福IBT听力解题应掌握的300个英语习语，希望给大家的托福听力解题带来帮助。 1. cool off (down) → make or become calm2. hold the grudge → having hard feelings
3. come a long way → show much improvement; make great progress
4. straighten out → correct a mistake; make you realize you are wrong
5. once and for all → finally or decisively
6. put … away → put in the right place or out of sight
7. out of it → not concerned with, not involved in
8. bump into → meet by chance; run into
9. out of stock → lacking a supply of, especially temporarily
10. per se → in itself
11. keep to oneself → avoid the society of others
12. go out of one’s way → make special effort to help somebody or do sth.
13. put up → accommodate; lodge
14. under the weather → some what ill; in low spirit
15. come in handy → prove useful
16. talk one out of → make one leave off or forego sth. by talking
17. wait on → serve; attend as a servant
18. go all out → make one’s utmost effort
19. on sale → at a reduced price
20. try out → enter as a competitor
21. pass up → give up; renounce; reject
22. on behalf of → as a representative of
23. stay up → not to go to bed
24. the odds are → the changes are; the probability is
25. hold over → postpone
26. out of order → in the wrong arrangement or condition; not working right
27. booked up → have no seats or rooms left; have no free time left
28. fit in → fine tine to see someone
29. go in one ear and out the other → make no impression
30. measure up → have the necessary qualifications
31. change of pace → a temporary shift or variation in the normal routine or regular pattern of activity
32. run out of → exhaust the quantity or supply of
33. go by → follow; obey
34. take it out on → cause someone else to suffer for one’s own misfortune or dissatisfaction
35. get around to → find the necessary time for
36. put out → disturb; annoy
37. (with) flying colors 成功，以优异的成绩
38. little by little 逐渐
39. call off 取消
40. come into 获得，继承
41. put off 推迟
42. stop by 顺便看望
43. tie up 阻碍
44. be out for 一心谋求，力图获得
45. fill in for 代替
46. turn down 拒绝;把音量关小
47. go off 响起来
48. cut down 减少
49. come up with 想出，写出，提供出，找出
50. make it 成功，达到目标
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