16fuel 燃料 using a particular type of fuel or power 以…为燃料,用…作动力
Most buses run on diesel.
大多数公共汽车都以柴油作燃料。
Does it work on mains electricity?
它是靠电力供应系统来运转吗?
17MDmedicine/drugs 药/毒品 taking a particular drug or medicine regularly 〔经常性地〕服用OPP off
Are you still on antibiotics?
你还在服用抗生素吗?
The doctor put her on Prozac.
医生让她服用“百忧解”。
A lot of these kids are on heroin by the age of 12.
这些孩子中有许多12岁就开始吸食海洛因了。
18.what’s somebody on?spoken used to say that someone is behaving in a very strange way, as if they are taking an illegal drug 某人吃错什么药了?某人吸了什么毒了?〔用于表示某人的举止十分异常,好像吸食了毒品似的〕
19using equipment 使用设备 using a machine or piece of equipment 用〔机器或设备〕
29telephone number 电话号码 used to say what number you should use in order to telephone someone 打…电话号码SYN American English at
You can contact me on this number.
你可以打这个电话号码和我联系。
30causing SB problems 给某人带来麻烦BREAK used when something bad happens to you, for example when something you are using suddenly stops working, or someone you have a relationship with suddenly leaves you 〔不好的事发生〕在…身上
15be/go/keep on at somebodyinformalASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO something to keep complaining to someone or asking someone to do something, especially when this annoys them 不停地对某人发牢骚;不断地要某人做某事
I’ve been on at him to fix that cupboard for weeks now.
我已催了他好几个星期叫他修那个柜子。
I wish you wouldn’t go on at me the whole time!
我希望你别没完没了地对我发牢骚!
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be/go/keep on at somebody• He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up.• You used to go on at me about getting out.• But what's going on at No. 4 and No. 8 are freerides, nothing less.• Something must be going on at school.• There was some spittinggoing on at the end of the game.• A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men.• Funnystuffgoing on at the Olympics.• I must say I was not totally happy about her going on at Yeo Davis, with me in the government.
16be/go/keep on about somethingBritish EnglishBrE informalTALK TO somebody to keep talking about something, in a way that is boring or annoying 〔令人生厌地〕不断谈论某事物
He’s always going on about money.
他老是不停地说钱啊钱的。
I don’t know what you’re on about!
我不知道你在唠叨些什么!
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be/go/keep on about something• It went on about 15 minutes too long.• Everyone goes on about Cher's dresses, showing her navel.• This made him wary as he went on about his chores and tried not to let Lucky see him.• And they don't go on about his obviousflaws, like him being a doctor and having three dozen girlfriends.• It sounded stupid the way she went on aboutloving the sea.• The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on aboutrubber.• Why do I go on about this, I wonder.• However, this is the party that goes on aboutunemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment.
17be not onBritish EnglishBrE spokenACCEPT if something is not on, it is not acceptable or reasonable 〔某事〕不行,不能接受,不合理
18be on for somethingspoken to be ready or willing to do something that someone has suggested 准备做某事;愿意做某事
Right, how many of you are on for a drink after work?
好,你们有几个人愿意下班后去喝一杯?
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be on for something• That way, a member who was on for 47 seconds was being charged for two minutes.• Pressureis on forbuilders everywhere to build at low cost and to be energy-efficient.• Criss-crossing these steps in dusty Andean towns, Symmes learns that a searchis on for Che's remains.• Increasingly the search is on for dissenters.• Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day.• It is on for this weekend for sure.
19you’re onspoken used to tell someone that you accept a bet or an invitation to compete against them 赌就赌,我接受
on• You should visit Chicago while the festival is on.• OK, who left the lights on?• Rick was standing there with nothing on.• I sent Dan on ahead to find us seats at the theater.• Put your shoeson, and let's go.• There's a good comedyon at eight.• I usually get on at Irving Street.• As far as we know, the game is still on for tomorrow.• Let's go on. I want to get home before it gets dark.• You're on in two minutes.
on and on• I could go on and on but you already got more than you probably wanted out of this answer.• I hope, I really hope, that this will not drag on and on and on.• I went on and on at her: draw me, draw me, draw me, Mummy!• It goes on and on that way for two solidmonths, like a sixty-day trance-like a contact high.• She goes on and on and on.• The high bluesummerweather goes on and on and by mid-afternoon it's hot up here under the leads.• The war may well just go on and on.• Yet the pump runs on and on, its noise now a constantaccompaniment to their once-quiet lives.