Acting before thinking always results in failing c.f. result from: be caused by His illness resulted from the bad food The other being labor This structure is: subject +-ing(or: -ed) verb. This type of adverbial clause can also be put at the beginning of the whole sentence Lunch finished, all the guests returned to the sitting room This type of clause can be rewritten by adding the preposition "with With lunched finished, all the guests returned to the sitting room Para 2 What is the Americans slaves to slave to /of sth: a person who is completely influenced or dominated by sth a slave to money, a slave to drink nothing but: only He is nothing but a criminal c.f. anything but: definitely not The hotel was anything but satisfactory 2 We budget it, save it,... account for it. Meaning: We deal with time in various ways as if time were something of real value kill time: make time pass quickly by finding sth to do --He drove to the club to kill a couple of hours account for: D)give a satisfactory explanation about(how sth is used) Jack had to account to her wife for every penny he spent. 3)be the cause or origin of North Sea oil accounts for a high proportion of our trade earnings charge for: ask(an amount )as a price How much do you charge for repairing the bike charge sb with sth: accuse sb of sth, esp formally in a court of law A sense of humor is a great quality for a person a sense of sight(hearing, smell, taste, touch, duty, place, direction) lost(or:dead) to all sense of shame全不知羞耻 run out of 1)(of liquid or sth like liquid) flow out of Many rivers run out of the Himalayas 2)use all one's supplies, have no more We have run out of gas. --I'm running out of patience b or sth pleasant) run after: run to try to catch sb; try to get the attention and company of run away: escape by running; go quickly away from a place run down knock down and hurt run into: meet sb. by chance, encounter(difficulties, problems, etc) run over(to): drive over sb. or sth5 --Acting before thinking always results in failing. c.f. result from: be caused by --His illness resulted from the bad food. The other being labor This structure is: subject + -ing (or: -ed) verb. This type of adverbial clause can also be put at the beginning of the whole sentence. --Lunch finished, all the guests returned to the sitting room. This type of clause can be rewritten by adding the preposition “with” --With lunched finished, all the guests returned to the sitting room. Para 2 What isthe Americans slaves to? slave to /of sth: a person who is completely influenced or dominated by sth -a slave to money, a slave to drink nothing but: only --He is nothing but a criminal. c.f. anything but: definitely not --The hotel was anything but satisfactory. 2.We budget it, save it, …account for it. Meaning: We deal with time in various ways as if time were something of real value. kill time: make time pass quickly by finding sth to do --How do you kill time? --He drove to the club to kill a couple of hours. account for: 1) give a satisfactory explanation about (how sth is used) --Jack had to account to her wife for every penny he spent. 3) be the cause or origin of --North Sea oil accounts for a high proportion of our trade earnings. charge for: ask (an amount ) as a price --How much do you charge for repairing the bike? charge sb with sth: accuse sb of sth, esp formally in a court of law sense: --A sense of humor is a great quality for a person. - a sense of sight(hearing, smell, taste, touch, duty, place, direction) be lost(or: dead) to all sense of shame 全不知羞耻 run out of: 1) (of liquid or sth like liquid) flow out of --Many rivers run out of the Himalayas. 2) use all one’s supplies, have no more --We have run out of gas. --I’m running out of patience. run across: find or meet by chance (esp. sb or sth pleasant) run after: run to try to catch sb; try to get the attention and company of run away: escape by running; go quickly away from a place run down: knock down and hurt run into: meet sb. by chance; encounter (difficulties, problems, etc) run over (to): drive over sb. or sth