一，基础词汇
1，I had meant to give you this book （meant to）
2，breath
- the system is due for an update, but don't hold your breath
（hold one's breath） - I stopped talking in order to save my breath.
（save one's breath） - Does it take your breath away When it's not worth dying for? And you feel yourself suffocating?
（take one's breath away） - waste one's breath
3，set
- a letter from home set off his feelings of homesickness
- Soon, the lawyer set out to documents, he set about collecting evidences.
4，but for
- I'd have been lost but for you.
5，cut
- The canoe cut through the water.
- The climbers cut steps in the ice
- Two survivors were cut free after being trapped for twenty minutes.
- Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want
- This scene was cut from the final version of the movie
- They cut away all the dead branches from the tree.
- If we don't sell more we'll have to cut back production
- to cut back on spending
- to cut back a rose bush
- He was cut down by an assassin's bullet.
- Emergency generators cut in
- We were cut off in the middle of our conversation
- He cut his son off without a penny
- My explanation was cut off by loud protests
- The winner cut ten seconds off the world record
- if a motor or an engine cuts out
- Don't cut your parents out of your lives
- She cut the dress out of some old material.
- He's not cut out to be a teacher
- Recently, he always cut in when the teacher talked.
6，before long
- I went back before long
- long before I ever went there
二，句型
1，however
- However big the fool is
- however late he was
- however difficult it was
2，nether...nor...
- Neither you or I am going to do it