英语重点词汇详解grateful用法解析

英语重点词汇详解grateful用法解析

grateful adj. [ˈɡreɪtfl]

感激的;表示感谢的;(尤用于书信或正式场合提出请求)感激不尽

grateful to sb 感激某人

You are doing me a great service, and I'm very grateful to

you

你帮了我一个大忙，非常感激。

grateful for 为...而感谢; 因...感激;很庆幸

She would be grateful for their company on the drive back

有他们做伴开车陪她回去，她会很感激的。

He was grateful for a chance to relax and collect his

thoughts.

他很庆幸有机会放松放松，整理一下自己的思绪。

She is all too aware that we should be grateful for good

health

我们应对健康的身体心存感恩，这一点她太清楚了。

We would be grateful for any information you can give us.

如能提供信息我们将感激不尽。

I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.

我将永远感激他的大量投入。

considerable [kənˈsɪdərəbl] adj.相当多(或大、重要等)的

grateful to do.做某事而心存感激

She seems to think I should be grateful to have a job at

all.

她似乎认为我有份工作就该谢天谢地了。

grateful that （if）从句

I’m very grateful that you lent your book to me.

你把书借给我，我非常感激。

He was grateful that she didn't tell his parents about the

incident.

他感到庆幸的是她未将此事告诉他父母。

I would be grateful if he could cast an expert eye over it

and tell me what he thought of it

如果他能够以专家的眼光浏览一下，告诉我他的想法，我将非常感激。

grateful 感恩，心怀感激

The Government flies these kites of disinformation, then

people feel grateful

when the changes don't happen.

政府故意放出这些虚假消息来试探舆论，而当其中提到的改变并未出现时，老百姓便会心怀感激。

disinformation[ˌdɪsˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃn] n.(尤指政府机构故意发布的)虚假信息，假消息

grateful to sb. for sth 因…感谢某人

I am extremely grateful to all the teachers for their help.

我非常感谢所有老师的帮助。

She was grateful to him for being so good to her

他对她这么好，令她很感激。

I am grateful to him for letting me read his early chapters

in manuscript.

他让我拜读了其手稿的前几章，对此我十分感激。

manuscript. [ˈmænjuskrɪpt] n.

手稿;原稿;(印刷术发明以前书籍或文献的)手写本，手抄本

We are grateful to you for permission to reproduce this

article.

非常感谢您允许我们复印这篇文章。

We are particularly grateful to him for his timely help.

我们特别感谢他的及时帮助。

I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.

你的好意，我十分领情。

I am very grateful to you for your advice.

多谢你的指导。

We are extremely grateful to you for the trouble you have

taken on our behalf.

多蒙鼎力相助，不胜感谢。

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint.

为获准重印致以深切感谢。

make up和解;和好;组成;构成;编造，虚构（故事、借口等）;给…化妆;为…打扮;凑足，补齐（数量）;（加班）补足，补上（耽误的时间）;和解;和好;配（食品、药等）;铺（床）;搭（铺）

1.和解、和好

She came back and they made up.

她回来之后他们又和好如初。

They never made up the quarrel

他们再也没能和解。

I'll make it up with him again.

我会与他重归于好。

They should make up with their ex-enemy in the West

他们应该和西方的老对头和解。

Let's make up=让我们和好吧!

Let's break up=让我们分手吧!

That's alright.-Give him/her a hug

没事-给对方一个拥抱

2. 组成;构成，（多见于make up of 或be made up of）

North Africans make up the largest and poorest immigrant

group in the country.

北非人构成了该国最大的、也是最贫困的移民。

Women make up 56% of the student numbers.

女生占学生人数的56%。

Women officers make up 13 per cent of the police force

女警占警力的13%。

The group consists of/comprises/is made up of/is composed

of/is comprised of ten people.

这个小组由十个人组成。

Insects are made up of tens of thousands of proteins.

昆虫由数万种蛋白质构成。

3. 编造;虚构

I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about

him.

我认为你编造他的谣言很不厚道。

I'm not making it up

我没有瞎编

make sb up=把某人化妆成别的样子

make sth up=把某个事情编造成别的样子

4. （给…）化妆;（为…）打扮（多指上舞台那种化妆）

She spent too much time making herself up.

她在化妆上花去了太多时间。

They made him up as an old man他们把他化妆成一个老人。

She chose Maggie to make her up for her engagement

photographs

她选择玛吉为她拍订婚照的时候化妆。

make-up n. 化妆品;性格;气质;组成成分;构成方式

put on your make-up

上妆

Normally she wore little make-up.

她一般不怎么化妆。

I rarely use make-up.

我很少化妆.(我很少用化妆品)

How come! You're wearing make-up!

天!怎么回事?你居然化妆了。

You have no make-up on, I'll do your make-up for you

你没化妆，我得给你化点妆!

She put in some clothes, odds and ends, and make-up

她将一些衣服、化妆品和零碎物品放了进去。

5. 凑足;补齐;弥补;补考，重修

Ask for an extra compensation payment to make up for the

stress you have been caused

为补偿你为此承受的压力，你要申请额外的补偿金。

Less than half of the money that students receive is in the

form of grants, and loans have made up the difference.

学生领到的钱有不到一半是助学金，差额部分由贷款补足。

He had invented an imaginary son, in order to make up for

his real son's failings.

为了弥补现实中儿子的不足之处，他就想象出了一个儿子。

I am not good at singing. I'm here just to make up the

number.

我不会唱歌，我在这儿只是滥竽充数。

Her beauty can't make up for her stupidity.

她的美丽不能弥补她的愚蠢。

An apology won’t make up for the way you’ve behaved.

单纯一个道歉无法补救你所做的事。

I bought myself a new dress to make up for not getting the

job.

我没有得到那份工作，于是买了一件连衣裙聊以自慰。

You can make your flights carbon neutral by planting trees

to make up for the greenhouse gas emissions.

可以通过植树对航空飞行进行碳中和，以抵消温室气体的排放。

My sister needs to make up a course.我的需要重修一门课程。

6. (加班加点)补足(时间)

They'll have to make up time lost during the strike.

他们不得不加班弥补罢工耽误的时间。

7. 配(菜);配(药)

Prepare the souffle dish before making up the souffle

mixture.

在搅拌做蛋奶酥的各种原料之前先要把盘子准备好。

8. 铺(床);搭(铺)；整理床铺

Her mother made up a bed in her old room.

她母亲在她曾经住过的房间里铺好了一张床。

I'll make up the bed in your old room

我会把你原来房间的床铺整理好。

9.拿定主意，下定决心make up one’s mind

I suppose it's stupid of us not to be able to make up our

own minds

我们自己都没办法拿定主意，这真是太傻了。

At the moment of indecision, we helped them make up their

minds.

正在进退两难的当口，我们帮他们下了决心。

I can't abide people who can't make up their minds

我受不了优柔寡断的人。

Make up your mind, you can't have it both ways.

你决定吧，反正鱼与熊掌不可兼得。