英语常见动词搭配

Break

break away from 摆脱，脱离：The Nottingham miners broke away from the NUM to form their own union. break down

（机器）出故障：The elevators in this building are always breaking down.

（谈判等）失败：Peace talks have broken down over the question of money.

弄坏，打破；

把…分解（化学变化）：Bacteria break down the animal waste to form methane gas(沼气).

精神崩溃，身体垮掉：If Tim carries on working like this, he’ll break down sooner or later.

break in

闯入（不及物）：Someone broke in and took several computers.

打断，插嘴：Dad would occasionally break in with a suggestion.

使（某人）习惯于：Don’t worry about doing the accounts（会计工作）, we’ll break you in gently.

break into（及物）：Thieves broke into the bank by digging a tunnel.

break into a run/tears/laughter/cheers 突然奔跑/突然大哭/突然大笑/突然欢呼起来

break off

突然结束，中断（尤指谈话）：Fay told her story, breaking off now and then to wipe the tears from her eyes. 终止（关系），断绝：British was about to break off diplomatic relations with Libya.

折断：I broke off a piece of bread. / Why don’t you break a branch off the tree and make a walking stick? break out （战争、火灾等）爆发（不及物，无被动）

break through突破，突围

break up

打碎：Jim started to break the ice up on the frozen lake.

停止，制止（斗殴）：Three policemen were needed to break up the fight.

（婚姻、组织等）破裂，解散，瓦解：If a parent dies, the family may break up.

（人群）散开，散场

（英）开始放假：When do you break up for Easter?

Bring

bring about 引起，导致，造成：Computers have brought about many changes in the workplace.

bring in 盈利，赚钱：The sale of the house only brought in about $ 45,000.

bring out

使…明显，显示出，使…得以发挥：Fatherhood（父亲的身份）seems to have brought out his sense of responsibility.

推出（书籍、唱片等）：The Food Association has brought out a handy guide.

bring up

提出：Why did you have to bring up the subject of money?

养育：He left her to bring up three young children on her own.

（英）呕吐：He can’t eat anything without bringing it up.

bring down使下降，使倒下

Call

call back回电话

call by （英，非正式）顺路拜访：I thought I’d call by and see how you were.

call for

需要：That kind of attitude isn’t called for.

要求，呼吁：The farmers called for larger government aid.

call forth（正式）唤起，引起，激起=arouse

call in

请…来（帮助）：Police have been called in to help find missing Sandra Day, aged 7.

（英）顺路拜访，顺路探望：Could you call in on Mum on your way home.

call off 取消，撤销：There is no rush now ---- the game’s been called off.

call on/upon

短暂访问：Why don’t you call on my sister when you’re in Brighton?

（正式）要求（某人做某事）：The UN has called on both sides to observe the ceasefire.

call out 大声说出

call up

给…打电话：call sb up=ring sb up

征召…入伍：A lot of boys were called up three months after war broke out.

Come

come about发生，产生：How did it come about that humans speak so many different languages?

come across

偶遇（某人），偶然发现（某物）

被理解（被动意义，不及物）：Your point really came across at the meeting.

come along

（教育、健康等）进步，进展：How is Martin coming along with his English?

快点，赶快=hurry up：Come along now, children.

加油，加把劲=come on：Come along, surely someone knows the answer.

come around

（美）拜访，探访：Mind if I come around after work?

（美）回心转意，改变观点：it took some persuading, but he finally came around.

（美）恢复知觉，再度苏醒：It was three weeks before she came around.

come by弄到，获得：How on earth did you come by these tickets?

come down （价格、水平等）下降，降低：Wait to buy a house until interest rates（利率）come down. come down with （非正式）染上（病），患病：I think I’m coming down with a cold.

come in 流行起来；开始采用：When platform shoes came in I thought they looked ridiculous.

come in handy 有用，用得上：Bring some rope along; it might come in handy.

come of 由于…而产生，是…的结果：Nothing came of my attempts to find her.

come on

快点=hurry up：Come on, we’ll be late!

加油，加把劲=come along：Come on, guys, you can do it!

高兴一点，乐观一点=cheer up：Come on, let’s see a smile.

别逗了，算了吧：Oh, come on, don’t lie to me!

come out

显露，泄露：It was several weeks before the truth of the matter came out.

出版，发行：A second edition will come out next year.

come out well/badly/ahead结果不错/结果很糟/结果很成功等：If you spend a little more time on your work now, you’ll come out ahead in the end. 如果你现在能在工作上多花点时间，你最终会成为佼佼者。When it comes to 当提及，当涉及到

come up

被提到（被动意义）：A lot of new questions came up at the meeting.

（尤指步行）走近：come up to …

come up with想出，提出

Get

get about=get around（新闻或消息）传开：I don’t mind you knowing, but I don’t really want it to get about.

get sth across to sb 让某人理解某事：How can I get it across to you people how important this is?

get along=get on

相处融洽：If you two are going to share a room, you’d better learn how to get along.

进展：How’s your granddaughter getting along at university?

get away from逃离，逃避，摆脱

get away with 做错事不受惩罚：I don’t know how they manage to get away with paying such low wages（工资）.

get by （钱）勉强够花：e.g.1 Her old age pension（养老金）gives her barely enough to get by. e.g. 2 With four kids to feed, Josie gets by on just $ 75 a week.

get sb down 渐渐使某人不高兴（疲倦）：All this waiting and delay is really getting her down.

get sth down 笔录，记下：The reporter wanted to get down every word he said.

get down to（to为介词）终于开始做（尤指需要花费许多时间和精力的事）：After Christmas I’m going to get down to some serious job-hunting.

get off

开始旅行，出发：They’re planning to get off by midday.

邮寄，寄出：I’ll have to get this letter off by tonight.

逃脱惩罚：I’ll pay anything you ask if you manage to get her off.

使…入睡（尤指婴儿）：Guy is upstairs trying to get the baby off.

下班：What time do you get off work?

（口）滚开！

get through

消磨，度过（艰难或不愉快的时间）：It’s going to be hard to get through the next couple of days.

通过（考试）：I’m afraid your daughter failed to get through her mid-term exams.

花费，耗费：He gets through at least $500 every weekend.

get sth through使（计划、新法律等）获得批准/通过：Once again we failed to get the Bill （议案，法案）through Parliament（议会）.

get through to sb接通某人的电话

get sth through to sb （尤指困难地）使某人明白某事：You must try and get it through to them that this is no joke.

get together聚集，相聚

Give

give away

赠送，捐赠：I need to give away some of these old baby clothes.

表露，流露：Katheryn studied the judge’s face, but he gave away no clues（线索）as to the verdict（判决）. 泄露（秘密）：I was afraid the kids would give the whole thing away.

（仪式上）颁发（奖品等）：The university principal gave away our diplomas（文凭）.

give in to sb让步，屈服

give off 发出（气味、光、热、声音等）

give out

分发，发布，公布：Students were giving out leaflets（传单）to everyone on the street.

耗尽，用完（无被动）：My money began to give out.

发出（气味、光、热、声音等）

give up 放弃

Hold

hold back

阻挡，抑制：They had erected（竖立，建立）the barriers to hold back the flood.

控制（情感）：We struggled to hold back our laughter.

阻碍：Spending too much time playing sport is holding him back at school

隐瞒：Tell me about it ---- don’t hold anything back!

hold down抑制（价格等的）上升：We shall hold down prices until the new year.

hold on 等会儿；等候；坚持下去：They didn’t know if they would be able to hold on until help arrived. hold on to sb/sth紧紧抓住、抱住

hold out 维持，持续：Will the water supply hold out through the summer?

hold up

支撑：Women hold up half the sky.

使耽搁，推迟，阻延：The building work has been held up by bad weather.

（试图）抢劫：His brother tried to hold up the drugstore and was sent to jail.

not hold water站不住脚，不可信：His explanation of where the money came from just doesn’t hold water. Look

look back on回忆起，回顾：When I look back on those days I realize I was desperately unhappy.

look down on/upon 轻视，瞧不起

look forward to（介词）盼望，期待

look into 调查：Police are looking into the disappearance of two children.

look on sb as=think of sb as=see sb as=treat sb as=regard sb as=consider sb as把…看作…

look out for sth=watch out for sth 当心，留神

look over迅速检查，浏览：Do you have any a few minutes to look these samples（样品）over?

look through 翻阅，翻找：I’ve looked through all my papers but I still can’t find the contract（合同）. look up

（形势）好转，改善：Now the summer’s here things are looking up!

（在书、电脑中）查找，查阅：I’ll just look up the train times（火车时刻表）.

look up to sb 尊敬某人

Make

make for

朝…走去，朝…前进：We made for St. Louis as fast as possible.

有利于，倾向于，使可能：e.g.1 The larger print makes for easier reading. 大号字体会更方便阅读。e.g. 2 Such statements don’t exactly make for racial harmony. 这样的声明不利于种族和睦。

make sth into 把…制成；使…转变为（指改变人的性格、工作或社会地位）

make out

（勉强）听出，看出，辨认出：I can scarcely make out his writing.

了解（某人的性格、想法、感觉或需要等）：Stuart’s a strange guy ---- I can’t make him out at all.

make up

编造（说法、解释等）：I think they are making the whole thing up.

编（歌词、曲子、故事、诗歌等）

给某人化妆/化装：They made him up as an old man for the last act of the play.

准备，布置：I could make up a bed for you on the couch.

形成，组成，构成：Women make up only 30% of the workforce.

补上，补回：I’m trying to make up the time I lost while I was sick.

make up with和好，和解：Have you made up with Patty yet?

make up for补偿，弥补：That one weekend made up for all the disappointments I’d had.

Pay

pay back 偿还（欠款）

pay for 为…而受苦，因…而受惩罚：These people should pay for their crimes.

pay off

付清、还清（债务）

（计划等）取得成功（无被动）：They took a hell of a risk but it paid off.

Pick

pick out

认真挑选（人或物）：Pick out all the words in the poem that suggest despair.

分辨出，辨认出：It was easy to pick out Bob’s father.

pick up

捡起，拿起，拾起

把（玩具、杂志等）收拾起来，整理：Please pick up your slippers（拖鞋）.

（尤指无意中）发现，得到

（去某地或做某事时）得到，买到（某物）：I picked up an evening paper on the way home.

接（某人），取（某物）：She just dropped by to pick up her mail.

（偶然、无意间）学会（技术、语言等），染上（习惯）：There is a tip I picked up from a professional model. 我偶然从一位职业模特那里学到了一个小窍门。

收看/收听到：I managed to pick up an American news broadcast.

（生意、社交活动等）改进，提高：The economy is finally beginning to pick up again.

pick oneself up（跌倒后）再站起来：Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.卡罗尔跌倒后爬了起来，拍去自己身上的灰尘。

Put

put across表达清楚，解释清楚（自己的想法等）：The union representative put her argument across very effectively.

put aside

把…撇开不理，不考虑：The UN has called on the warring factions to put aside their differences.

留出（一段时间）：Try to put aside an hour each day for exercise.

储存（钱）备用：We’re trying to put aside a few hundred dollars every month toward our vacation.

put away把…收起来放回原处：Let me just put these files away.

put back

使延期，推迟：The meeting has been put back to next Thursday.

把（钟、表）拨慢

put down

放下

（英）写下，记下

镇压（革命、起义、叛乱等）

一再当众批评某人：I hate the way Dave puts me down the whole time.

put forward

将…提前，把钟表拨快

提出（建议、计划等）：The working party has put forward a good case for moving to a new site.

put off 推迟某事：The meeting has been put off till next week.

put on

穿上，戴上：Put your coat on before you go outside.

上演，举行，表演：We’re putting on a concert to raise money for famine（饥荒）victims.

增加：put on weight

put out 扑灭

put up

张贴（图片、布告等）：The exam results will be put up on Friday afternoon.

建造：They’re putting up several new office blocks in the centre of town.

为某人提供膳宿：They agreed to put two foreign students up over the summer.

（尤英）短期住宿：We can put up at a hotel for the night.

put up with 忍受，忍耐：I don’t know how you put up with their constant quarrelling.

Set

set about doing sth 开始着手做某事：She set about clearing up after party.

set aside

把…置之不理：Congress ought to set aside its political differences to pass a health care bill. 国会应该抛开政治分歧，通过一项关于卫生保健的议案。

留出，拨出（金钱或时间等）：Try to set aside at least an hour each day for learning new vocabulary.

set back 延缓，阻碍：The cultural Revolution set back the modernization of China by many years.

set down写下，记下

set off

出发，启程，动身：The old man set off down the path towards the river.

引起，激发（尤指意外事件）：The incident set off a chain of events which resulted in the outbreak of World War I.

使（炸弹）爆炸：The slightest movement would have set off the device and blow us all sky high.

set out

动身踏上（漫长的旅途）：We packed our backpacks and set out for the hills.

开始做某事，着手进行：She deliberately set out to poison her husband.

set up

建立，设立（公司、机构等）：The Race Relations Board was originally set up in 1965. 种族关系委员会最初成立于1965年。

竖起（标志牌、塑像等）：The army has set up road blocks round the city.

搭建（帐篷等）：We set up camp near the shore of the lake.

Take

take after（外貌、行为等方面）与（某个长辈）相像：Jenni really takes after her mother.

take apart 拆开，拆卸= separate sth into pieces

take back

收回（说错的话）

退回（商店购买的货物）：If the shirt doesn’t fit, take it back.

使回忆起：Seeing those old pictures really took me back.

take in

收留，收容，收养：Brett’s always taking in stray animals.

（价格或成本里）包括：This price takes in the cost of all the accommodation and food.

改小（衣服）

领会，理解：I told Grandpa we were going away, but I don’t think he took it in.

be taken in 被骗：Don’t be taken in by products claiming to help you lose weight in a week.

take off

脱下，脱去（尤指衣服）

起飞

突然开始成功，开始走红：I hear the business is really taking off.

take sth off （在某日或某段时间）休假：I’m taking Thursday off to do some Christmas shopping.

take on

开始雇用（某人）：We are taking on 50 new staff this year.

开始具有（某种特征、面貌等），呈现，露出：His face took on a worried look.

承担（责任等），接受（工作等）：I’m worried about Doug, he’s taking on too much work.

take out

带某人出去

正式获得，（尤指从保险公司或法庭）领到：I’m thinking of taking out a life insurance policy.

take over 接管，接任，接手：e.g.1 Who will take over now that Ewing has resigned? e.g.2 Will you take over the driving when we reach Madison?

take to（介词）

喜欢上，对…产生好感：I took to Paul as soon as I met him.

染上…的习惯或嗜好：All this bad news is enough to make you take to drink.

take up

占据（时间或空间）：Writing the paper took up most of the weekend.

对（某项活动或主题）产生兴趣，开始花时间从事：Glenn has taken up pottery（陶瓷）.

开始从事（一项新的工作），开始担当（一项新的责任）：She took up her first teaching post in 1950.

Turn

turn against 转而讨厌，转而反对：Public opinion in Panama turned against him.

turn around=turn round使（业务）好转：In under three years she had completely turned the company around.

turn away拒绝：They turned about 1,000 people away at the Arena because all the tickets were gone.

turn back 折回，掉转头

turn down

调低（机器的热度、音量等）

拒绝（建议、要求、邀请等）：Pauline’s turned down offers from several different law firms.

turn in上交：Have you turned in your homework from last night?

turn into使…变成，把…变成：In a few weeks, the caterpillar（毛虫）will turn into a butterfly.

turn off 关掉（自来水、煤气等的）开关；关闭（电视机、汽车引擎、电灯等）

turn on打开（自来水、煤气等的）开关；打开（电视机、汽车引擎、电灯等）

turn out

最后结果是，最终成为：e.g. 1 I hate the way my hair turned out. The color is all wrong. e.g. 2 Don’t worry, I’m sure it will all turn out fine.

关上，关掉（电灯）

生产，制造：The factory turns out 200 units a day.

turn over

把（犯人）交给（警方等）：The FBI caught Rostov and turned him over to the CIA.

把（所有权）交给（某人）：I’m turning the shop over to my son when I retire.

营业额达到：We were turning over t0 $1,500 a week when business was good.

turn to

求助于，求教于：e.g. 1 Nobody seems to understand. I don’t know who to turn to. e.g. 2 Paul turned to drink to try to forget his problems at work.

翻到（书中的某页）：Turn to page 655 for more information on this subject.

turn up

调大，开大（热度、音量等）

突然露面，重新出现：I couldn’t find my watch for ages, but then one day it turned up in a coat pocket.

到达，来到：Steven turned up late as usual.

Work

work on

致力于：Ken was working on some sets for an opera at the Met. 肯正忙于为在大都会歌剧院演出的一部歌剧制作几台布景。

努力影响（说服）某人做某事：My parents spent the weekend working on me to go on holiday with them. work out

计算出

设法弄懂：The plot is very complicated, it’ll take you a while to work it out.

精心制定出：The government have worked out a set of plans to deal with the financial crisis.

（问题）逐渐解决，（复杂情况）逐渐化解：Ken and Ella had loads of problems when they first got married, but things worked out in the end.

按某种方式发生work out well/badly：Financially, things have worked out very well for us.

锻炼，健身：He works out with weights twice a week.

动词搭配

1. add to增加，增进

add … to把…加进…

add up相加

add up to总计，所有这一切说明

6.cut down砍倒，削减

cut off切断，割掉，断绝关系

cut up连根拔除，切碎

cut out删（省）掉，戒掉

cut in插嘴

7.die of (disease/hunger/grief/old age)死于（疾病，饥饿，寒冷，情感原因）

die from死于（意外事故、情形）

die away渐渐消逝

die out绝种

8. fall behind落后

fall down掉下，跌倒

fall back撤退，后退

9. go in for从事，喜爱，参加go through通过，经受

go over复习，检查

go up（价格）上涨，建造起来

go against违反

go ahead先行，开始吧，问吧，说吧

go away离开

go by时间过去

go down下沉，降低，（日、月）西沉go on(with)继续进行

go without没有，缺少

go beyond超出

12. hand in交上，提交

hand out分发

hand down流传，遗传

13. hang about闲逛

hang up挂电话

15. keep up (courage, English, spirits)保持，keep up with跟上

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keep away from避开，不接近，离…远远的

keep on继续，坚持下来

keep back阻止，留下，隐瞒，扣下

keep from克制，阻止

16. knock at/on敲

knock down撞倒

18. look up查找，向上看

look through翻阅，浏览

look on旁观

look on…as看作

look into调查

look after/ at / for 照顾/看/寻找

look out(for)当心

look about / around/round四下查看

look down upon瞧不起

look back upon回忆，回顾

look ab. up and down仔细打量某人

look ab in the face/eyes直视某人

20. pass away去世

pass by经过

pass down(on)…to传给

pass through经历

21. pay back还钱，报复

pay for付钱，为…受到惩罚，因…得到报应pay off 还清24. pull down拆掉，推翻

pull on匆匆穿上/ off 脱

pull in进站

pull out取出,(火车)离站

pull down往下拉,拆毁

pull over驶到一边

pull through恢复健康,渡过难关,脱离险境pull up（使）停住

26. run across偶然碰到

run after追逐，追捕

run away逃跑

run for竞选

run into偶然碰到（困难）遇见（人），相撞run out of用完

27. see off送行

see through看透，识破

28. send for派人去请

send off送行

send out发出（光亮）等

send up发射

31. think of想起

think of…as把…看作

think up想出

think about考虑

think over仔细考虑