Phrasal verbs 2

 0    117 tarjetas    katniss115
descargar mp3 imprimir jugar test de práctica
 
término English definición English
to keep up a house
empezar lección
to maintaina it in good condition
to keep up someone's interest
empezar lección
not to allow someone to get bored
to keep up with the Jonses
empezar lección
to aim at not being left behind them socially: to have as many 'status symbols' as they have
to keep up with
empezar lección
i can't keep up with you (you are going too fast for me, either physically in walking or intellectually)
to keep up with/in touchbwith someone
empezar lección
to remain in contact
to keep to the point
empezar lección
to cut out irrelevant matter
to keep on with something
empezar lección
to continue to work at something
to keep house for someone
empezar lección
to do the housework for someone: to be a housekeeper
to keep off
empezar lección
Keep off the grass. (do not walk on it)
to keep off
empezar lección
a subject (to avoid mentioning it)
to keep off
empezar lección
mosquitoes, flies etc. (to prevent them from worrying you)
to keep out
empezar lección
Keep out! (do not enter)
to keep something from someone
empezar lección
I tried to keep it from him. (prevent him from finding out about it)
to knock down
empezar lección
someone (to knock someone flat in an accident or flight)
to knock down
empezar lección
I knock him down to £5. (i haggled until he agreed to accept £5 for the article: colloquial)
to knock up
empezar lección
someone (to awaken someone at a certain time)
to knock up
empezar lección
something (to make it oneself)
to knock someone out
empezar lección
to punch someone so that he falls down unconscious - in boxing or a fight)
to lay down
empezar lección
the law (to speak with great authority - generally without any justification)
to lay down
empezar lección
one's life (to sacrifice it for one's country)
to lay down
empezar lección
one's arm (to surrender)
to be laid up with
empezar lección
to be confined to bed on the doctor's orders because of
to lay off workers
empezar lección
to tell workers to go home because there is no work for them
to lay on electicity, gas, etc
empezar lección
to supply it by connecting it up to the main
the lay-out of a garden etc.
empezar lección
to design of it
to lead off
empezar lección
to start a discussion etc.
to be led away by one's feeling
empezar lección
to be overpowered by them so that one loses rational control
a leading question
empezar lección
a question designed to elicit a particular answer
to let someone down
empezar lección
to fail someone by not keeping one's promise
to let someone into
empezar lección
a room (to allow someone to enter)
to let someone into
empezar lección
a secret (to tell someone it)
to let off
empezar lección
rooms (to allow tenanta to occupy them)
to let off
empezar lección
fireworks or guns (to make them explode)
to let out
empezar lección
clothes (to make them larger)
to let out
empezar lección
a secret (to betray it by accident)
to let out
empezar lección
a cry of pain (not to attempt to suppress it)
to look at
empezar lección
to view, to observe
to lool on/upon someone as a friend
empezar lección
to regard someone as a friend
to look on
empezar lección
to be a passive spectator
an onlooker
empezar lección
a chance spectator
to look over
empezar lección
to check or correct a manuscript etc.
to look over
empezar lección
to give a view of
to look over
empezar lección
someone's book (to get help by seeing what he has written)
to overlook
empezar lección
to give a view of
to overlook
empezar lección
not to notice: to miss a mistake etc.
to overlook
empezar lección
to forgive
to look into something
empezar lección
to investigate something
to look down on someone
empezar lección
to despise someone
to look up to someone
empezar lección
to admire someone
to look someone up
empezar lección
to take the trouble to visit someone when you happen to be in his home town
to look someone up and down
empezar lección
to survey someone critically from head to foot
to look through something
empezar lección
to read something rather cursorily
to look for
empezar lección
to search for something lost
to look for
empezar lección
to expect or exact
to look forward to doing something
empezar lección
to expect to enjoy something
to look like
empezar lección
someone (to resemble someone)
to look like
empezar lección
It looks like remaining fine. (It will probably remain fine)
to look like
empezar lección
What does he look like? (what kind of aplearance does he present)
to look after something or someone
empezar lección
to take care of something or someone
to look out over
empezar lección
to command a view of
Look out!
empezar lección
Take care!
to make out
empezar lección
to find out or discover
to make out
empezar lección
to understand
to make out
empezar lección
to see in the distance with difficulty
to make out
empezar lección
a chque, bill, list etc. (to write it out)
to make out
empezar lección
to pretend
to make up
empezar lección
one's face (to use cosmetics)
to make up
empezar lección
a prescription (to make the medicine from the doctor's instructions)
to make up
empezar lección
a story (to invent it)
to make up
empezar lección
a parcel (to toe it with paper and string)
to make up
empezar lección
one's mind (to decide)
to make up
empezar lección
a fire (to put more coal on it)
to make up
empezar lección
a quarrel (to become reconciled after quarrelling)
to make up
empezar lección
a four (to be fourth player in a game of cards or tennis)
to make up
empezar lección
a bill (to add up the items on it and present it to the customer)
to make up
empezar lección
a bed (to prepare a pare bed to receive a visitor)
to make up
empezar lección
to someone (to be particulary charming because you want someone to do something for you)
make-up
empezar lección
cosmetics
make-up
empezar lección
a person's fundamental character
to be made up of
empezar lección
to be composed of
to make away with someone
empezar lección
to murder someone
to make do with something
empezar lección
to manage with somwthing because one cannot afford to get anything better
Made it!
empezar lección
I've managed it! I've succeed in doing it!
to make a clean breast of something
empezar lección
to confess something fully
to make hay while the sun shines
empezar lección
to take one's opportunity when it comes
to make a mountain out of a molehill
empezar lección
to exaggerate the importance of something
to pass oneself off as someone
empezar lección
to pretend to be someone
to pass on
empezar lección
to die
to pass on
empezar lección
information or news (to tell it to others)
to pass out
empezar lección
to faint
to pass out
empezar lección
to finish one's initial period of training in the army, an apprenticeship
to pass down knowledge from father to son
empezar lección
to transmit orally so as to exclude other from the secret of how to do it
a pretty pass
empezar lección
Things have come to a pretty pass. (They have reached a terrible state; the situation has bexomw really serious)
to pull out
empezar lección
a tooth (to extract it)
to pull out
empezar lección
A car pulled out. (It left the kerb after being parked there or moved towards the centre of the road to overtake)
to pull someone's leg
empezar lección
to tease, joke with someone
to pull down
empezar lección
a building (to demolish it)
to pull down
empezar lección
An attack of 'flu pulls you down. (It makes you feel weak and depressed for a long time afterwards)
to pull somerhing off
empezar lección
to remove an object
to pull something off
empezar lección
to succeed in an endeavour
to pull round
empezar lección
to recover from an illness
to pull someone round
empezar lección
to cure someone of and illness
to pull oneself together
empezar lección
to control one's behaviour with an effort; to force oneself to bahave rationally
to pull up
empezar lección
to stop - used of cars, taxi etc.
to pull strings
empezar lección
to use personal influence, e. g to obtain a job
to pull through
empezar lección
to survive an illness
to pull someone through
empezar lección
to cure someone of an illness
output
empezar lección
production, either industrial or artistic
to put off a light
empezar lección
to switch it off
to put off doing something
empezar lección
to postpone doing something
to put someone off the idea of doing something
empezar lección
to discourage someone from doing something
to put someone off someone
empezar lección
That put me off him. (it made me dislike him)
to put in
empezar lección
an hour's work (to do it)
to put in
empezar lección
to interrupt a conversation
to put in
empezar lección
at a port (to call at it on the way to somewhere else)
to put in
empezar lección
a good word for someone (to speak well of someone: to recommend him)
to put in
empezar lección
an application (to write it and send it off)

Debes iniciar sesión para poder comentar.