College English Integrated Course
Book One Unit One
Growing up
Language study   
1. off and on: adv.
In an intermittent manner:  slept off and on last night.
2. take hold: to start to have an effect
The fever was beginning to take hold.
3. associate: To connect or join together; combine; To connect in the mind or imagination
associate one thing with another
We associate China with the Greet Wall.
What do you associate with such a heavy snow?
4. turn out:
    a. to shut off: turned out the lights.
b. to arrive or assemble, as for a public event or entertainment:
A large group of protesters have turned out.
c. To produce, as by a manufacturing process; make: an assembly line turning out cars.
d. To be found to be, as after experience or trial:
The rookie turned out to be the best hitter on the team.
e. To end up; result: The cake turned out beautifully.
f. To equip; outfit: troops that were turned out beautifully.
g. Informal To get out of bed.
h. To evict; expel: The tenants were turned out.
5. agony: The suffering of intense physical or mental pain.
His last agony was over. 他临死的挣扎已经过去了。
He was in an agony of remorse. 他处于极端悔恨之中
be in agony 苦恼不安
death agony (=agony of death)临死时的痛苦, 垂死的挣扎
in agony of pain在痛苦的挣扎中
in an agony of处在极端...anticipate什么意思状态中
6.  assign: a. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate. 分派为某一特定目的分开；指派  b. To select for a duty or office; appoint.  选派为某项任务或工作选派；委派
c. To give out as a task; allot. 作为任务分出；分配
d. To ascribe; attribute. 归于；归属
be assigned to a new post 被派到新的工作岗位
assign a day for a meeting 确定开会日期
assign property to another 把财产转让给别人
assign one's failure to idleness 将失败归因于懒惰
assign homework 留家庭作业
7.  anticipate: To act in advance so as to prevent; forestall. To foresee and fulfill in advance.
We anticipate great pleasure from our visit to London.
We anticipate hearing from you again.
We anticipated our competitors by getting our products onto the market first.
ardently anticipate殷切地期望    confidently anticipate满怀信心地期望
anticipate sb’s arrival with much pleasure万分高兴地期待某人的到来。
A man who always anticipates his income can never save or become rich.
总是预支工资, 寅吃卯粮的人, 永远不能储蓄或成为富人。
He tried to anticipate all my needs.他设法将我需要的东西预先准备好。
expect, anticipate, hope, await
These verbs are related in various ways to the idea of looking ahead to something in the future. To expect is to look forward to the likely occurrence or appearance of someone or something:
You can expect us for lunch. 你可以等我们一起吃午饭。
“We should not expect something for nothing---but we all do and call it Hope” (Edgar W. Howe).“我们不应期待收获而不付出--相反我们应去做并称之为希望”（埃德加··何奥）。
Anticipate is sometimes used as a synonym of expect, but usually it involves more than expectation. Sometimes it refers to taking advance action, as to forestall or prevent the occurrence of something expected or to meet a wish or request before it is articulated:
<SKW> Anticipate有时被用作 expect的同义词，但通常它不仅仅是期望这个意思，有时它指提前采取行动，来阻止预料中某事的发生或在一项要求或愿望说出之前使它得到满足：anticipated the attack and locked the gates; 预见会有袭击并锁上门；
anticipating her desires. 预先满足她的愿望。
The term can also refer to having a foretaste of something expected before its occurrence:
这个词也指在预料中某物的出现前就已拥有：anticipate trouble. 过早陷入麻烦。
To hope is to look forward with desire and usually with a measure of confidence in the likelihood of gaining what is desired:
Hope意思是热切期望并对获得所期待之物的可能性方面有一定的信心：
I hope to see you soon.  我希望不久就见到你。
Hope for the best, but expect the worst. 做最大的希望，但也等待最大的失望。
To await is to wait in expectation of; it implies certainty: Await意思是满怀期望的等待；暗含肯定性：eagerly awaiting your letter. 热切等待你的来信。
8. tedious: Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
a tedious story 冗长乏味的故事  tedious work 乏味的工作
boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum.
These adjectives refer to what is so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.
Boring implies feelings of listlessness and discontent:
I had expected the book to be boring, but on the contrary it was fascinating.
What is monotonous bores because of lack of variety: 表示 monotonous的东西令人厌烦是
因为缺少变化.
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea”(James Russell Lowell). “没有东西更象大海一样单调到让人绝望了”（詹姆士·罗素·洛威尔）。
Tedious suggests dull slowness or long-windedness: Tedious说明令人乏味的缓慢或漫长的曲折：When we travel from coast to coast, we take a plane to avoid spending tedious days on the train. 当从一个海滨旅行到另一个海滨时，我们乘坐飞机以避免在火车上打发无聊时光。