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Section Ⅱ Starting out & Understanding ideas—Language points
[对应学生用书P80]
1 assistant n.助手,助理
Thanks to AI,I've got my own supersmart personal assistant built into my phone.
多亏了人工智能,我才可以在手机中内置个人超级智能私人助手。
►情景探究
①Those volunteers will assist you in looking for clues.
那些志愿者将会帮助你寻找线索。
②Julia was assisting him to prepare his speech.
朱莉娅正在帮他准备演讲稿。
③They are appealing to the world community to come to Jordan's assistance.
他们正在呼吁国际社会向约旦伸出援手。
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①assist v.帮助;协助;援助
assist sb. in doing sth.=assist sb. to do sth. 帮助某人做某事
assist sb. with sth.帮助某人某事
②assistance n.援助;帮助
come to one's assistance帮助某人
►学以致用
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①Foreign Office officials assisted with transport and finance problems.
②My assistant (assist) will now demonstrate the machine in action.
③We shall offer you assistance(assist) with legal expenses up to $5,000.
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④尽管他喊叫,却没有人来帮助他。
Despite his cries,no one came to his assistance.
⑤我们将帮你找个住的地方。
We will assist you in finding somewhere to live.
We will assist you to find somewhere to live.
2 hang out 闲逛;常去某处
And speaking of hanging out,I'm hoping that selfdriving cars are available soon.
说到出去玩,我一直希望自动驾驶汽车能很快面世。
►情景探究
①Hang your coat up on the hook.
把你的大衣挂在衣钩上。
②Hang on a minute—I'll just get my coat.
等一下——我去拿外套。
③There were some really strange characters hanging around the bar.
有些不三不四的人在酒吧周围游荡。
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①hang up终止使用某物;突然挂断……的电话
②hang on抓紧;稍等;(在逆境中)坚持
③hang around (在某处)等待;经常和……在一起
►学以致用
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①我挂断电话之后才想起来原本想说的话。
After I hung up I remembered what I'd wanted to say.
②一群年轻人在外面到处游逛。
A bunch of young people were hanging around outside.
③这个足球队为了胜利坚持不懈。
The football team hung on for victory.
3 potentially adv.潜在地
Nearly every job is potentially at risk in the long run.
长此以往,几乎所有工作都可能处于潜在危险之中。
►情景探究
①We try to help all students realize their full potential.
我们努力帮助所有的学生充分发挥他们的潜力。
②The meeting has the potential to be a watershed event.
这次会议有可能成为具有转折性的事件。
③The European marketplace offers excellent potential for increasing sales.
欧洲市场带来了扩销的大好机遇。
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potential n.可能性;潜力