Appendix B: Words and expressions be prone to: tending to suffer from an illness or show a particular negative characteristic You're more prone to illnesses when you're tired and your body is run-down You have to bear in mind that Angela is rather prone to exaggeration I'm prone to forget names. / to infinitive/ LIABLE, PRONE mean being by nature or through circumstances likely to experience something dverse. LIABLE implies a possibility or probability of incurring something because of position, nature, or particular situation *liable to get lost*. PRONE stresses natural tendency or propensity to incur something"prone to procrastination count: to calculate the number of units in a group If you don't do as I tell you by the time I've counted(up) to three, there'll be trouble-one two. three The teachers counted the students as they got on to the coach /T/ There'll be eight for dinner, counting(=including) ourselves. / T7 To count down is to count backwards to zero, esp. before sending a spacecraft into space to consider or be considered fformal) I count myself fortunate to have had such a good education. /T7 I've had three jobs in the last five years, but one of them was unpaid, so that doesn't count I 've ahvays counted Lucy among my closest friends. T/ Ive always believed that happiness counts more than money n body counts I people spoil their voting papers, their votes don t count(=they ored) fatal: very serious and having an important bad effect in the future or(of illness, accidents, etc. He made the fatal mistake of believing what they told hi This illness is in almost all cases fatal DEADLY, MORTAL, FATAL, LETHAL mean causing or capable of causing death. DEADLY applies to an established or very likely cause of death *a deadly disease*. MORTAL implies that death has occurred or is inevitable *a mortal wound*. FaTAL describes conditions circumstances or events that have caused or are destined inevitably to cause death or dire consequences, and stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction*fatal consequences* LETHAL applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life * lethal gas*.确定的死亡原因,可能为谋杀而策划的 commit: People might be said not to commit themselves if they refuse to express an opinion on a We don' t want to commit ourselves to a financial plan until more details are known I can't commit myself on that subject until l've taken legal advice n to a particular principle, person or plan of action I think I can come tonight but /won't commit myself till I know for sure./T79 Appendix B: Words and expressions be prone to: tending to suffer from an illness or show a particular negative characteristic You’re more prone to illnesses when you’re tired and your body is run-down. You have to bear in mind that Angela is rather prone to exaggeration. I’m prone to forget names. [+ to infinitive] LIABLE, PRONE mean being by nature or through circumstances likely to experience something adverse. LIABLE implies a possibility or probability of incurring something because of position, nature, or particular situation *liable to get lost*. PRONE stresses natural tendency or propensity to incur something *prone to procrastination*. count: to calculate the number of units in a group If you don’t do as I tell you by the time I’ve counted (up) to three, there’ll be trouble - one, two, three. The teachers counted the students as they got on to the coach. [T] There’ll be eight for dinner, counting (= including) ourselves. [T] To count down is to count backwards to zero, esp. before sending a spacecraft into space. to consider or be considered as (formal) I count myself fortunate to have had such a good education. [T] I’ve had three jobs in the last five years, but one of them was unpaid, so that doesn’t count. [I] I’ve always counted Lucy among my closest friends. [T] to have value or importance; to matter I’ve always believed that happiness counts more than money. In our university/class, everybody counts. If people spoil their voting papers, their votes don’t count (= they are ignored). fatal: very serious and having an important bad effect in the future or (of illness, accidents, etc.) causing death He made the fatal mistake of believing what they told him. This illness is in almost all cases fatal. DEADLY, MORTAL, FATAL, LETHAL mean causing or capable of causing death. DEADLY applies to an established or very likely cause of death *a deadly disease*. MORTAL implies that death has occurred or is inevitable *a mortal wound*. FATAL describes conditions, circumstances, or events that have caused or are destined inevitably to cause death or dire consequences, and stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction *fatal consequences*. LETHAL applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life *lethal gas*. 确定的死亡原因, 可能为谋杀而策划的. commit: People might be said not to commit themselves if they refuse to express an opinion on a subject. We don’t want to commit ourselves to a financial plan until more details are known. I can’t commit myself on that subject until I’ve taken legal advice. to promise or give (your loyalty or money) to a particular principle, person or plan of action I think I can come tonight but I won’t commit myself till I know for sure. [T]