Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Unit. 1: Look After
Unit. 1: Look After
Look after.
To attend to or take care of.
She works look after children.
You should look after yourself.
Look for.
to search for.
I’ve been looking for that book everywhere.
She looks for her dress.
Look through.
To read or study quickly.
He looks through that magazine.
You look through my book.
Look up.
To search for in a book of reference. To find a word in a dictionary or a phone number in a
directory.
To pay a visit to.
She looks uo this word in your dictionary.
I looked up several old friends.
Sniff out.
To discover or detect (by using the sense of smell).
The dog sniff out evidence.
The police used dogs to sniff out the explosives.
Track down.
To pursue or search for (someone or something) until it is caught orfound.
I managed to track down an old copy of the book.
You need his name to track down the dog.
Turn down.
To say ’no’ to; to refuse.
He turned down her offer.
You should turn down that job.
Unit. 2
Break down.
To stop working properly
To be overcome with emotion
She broke down and wept.
The car breaked down in last trip.
Break in.
An occasion when a building is entered illegally by a criminal orcriminals, usually by
damaging a window or door, especially in order tosteal something.
To get into a building or car using force, usually to stealsomething.
Someone broke into the office and stole some computers.
She breaks into the bank.
Break up
to stop having a relationship
He just broke up with his girlfriend.
You must break up with her.
Bring forward.
To make to happen at an earlier date; to advance in time.
To introduce or present an argument or proposal for consideration.
They have brought forward the date of their wedding by one week.
I bring forward play tennis in my classrom.