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1. I'm all for it.
2. There was dirt all over the floor.
3. He keeps saying he'll write a book one day, but he's all talk.
4. Skinny jeans are all the rage right now.
5. I tried to keep a secret from my parents, but they knew the truth all along.
6. When they opened the doors to the store, everyone rushed in and it was a free-for-all.
7. They pulled out all the stops for their daughter's 16th birthday party.
8. This church is attended by people from all walks of life.
9. Winning the competition isn't the be-all and end-all. You'll learn a lot from the experience, too.
10. When all is said and done, nothing will have changed.
# roots / trunk / branch / leaves
# bark / shade
# palm trees / pine trees / a will / a birch tree
# cut down / chop down a tree
# stump / lumber / timber
# logs / boards / planks
# deforestation / plant trees
1. The director's second film was definitely a cut above his first.
2. You shouldn't cut corners when it comes to building a house--you don't want to risk the roof collapsing or something like that!
3. On Friday afternoon, the teenagesrs cut class and went to a movie instead.
4. The kids were fighting and I told them to cut it out.
5. We managed to cut a deal with a new manufacturer and saved 20% on our products.
6. (cut one's losses) After three months of classes, I wasn't making any progress, so I decided to cut my losses and quit.
7. (cut out for something) My parents wanted me to be an engineer, but I just wasn't but out for it--I'm terrible at math; I prefer the arts.
8. (cut someone some slack) The boss wanted this project done yesterday, but it was a ton of work and I knew I wouldn't be able to finish it all. Luckily she cut me some slack and extended the deadline.
9. Let's cut to the chase--we don't have time to talk about all that other stuff.
10. (have your work cut out for you) The house is a complete mess. We have to clean the house before the dinner party at 7. We've got our work cut out for us!
source: Twominute English 2015年4月9日
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--Did you do drugs today? No. But really, did you do drugs today? Everyone says "no". Maybe you ----Do you know that caffeine was a drug?
--I do drugs every day. Mine is caffeine. I drink coffee every morning.
--The slang for alcohol could be "booze". Also, we call beer a "brew". We also call beer "suds". So all of these words are slang for "alcohol".
--Heroin. The street name or the slang name is "H", "junk", or "smack". There's also, like, "brown tar" and all these different slang words for "heroin", but these, I think, are the most common. When you watch movies like Trainspotting or -- a lot of movies deal with heroin addiction. A lot of famous rock stars did heroin, and now, they're dead. Bye-bye. This is what we're talking about, "H", "junk", and "smack".
--Cocaine. In the 1980s, probably the most popular drug in the world ever -- short form or slang, we call it "coke" -- that makes sense, "coke", "cocaine" -- "blow", "Charlie" -- I guess that's his name -- or "nose candy" because you sniff the cocaine in your nose. So it's like candy for your nose.
--There's a drug that was really, really popular in the 90s called "MDMA", also known as "ecstasy" or just "E". And ecstasy comes in a pill form. Cocaine is actually a powder. Heroin is a brown powder. Alcohol is a liquid. And caffeine is a liquid, or it can be in solid form like chocolate.
--"methamphetamine" You may have heard the term "meth". Now, people who do meth or methamphetamine, they can inject it, which means they put it in a needle in their veins. So it can be injected. And it is a powder, like heroin. Oh, heroin is injected or smoked. But methamphetamine or "meth" or "crystal meth" or "crystal", as people call it, is a really, really big problem in America and Canada. It's causing something called "meth mouth", and "meth mouth" causes the people's teeth to rot out and fall out. So the basically lose all their teeth. How attractive. Also, meth heads have a lot of scars on their face. There are a lot of open sores, and they have no teeth. Beautiful, beautiful people. Good idea. So methamphetamine -- street name is "meth" or "crystal". Very, very terrible, terrible drug, like most of them.
