#学新词 📚
1.This "Zoo-Wee Mama" thing has really got me worked up.
*work somebody up: to make someone very angry, or upset about something
My sentence:
I have exerted my energy to exercise but the result really worked me up. I have kept the same weight over three months.
2. The kids at my school are always itching to see a fight.
* be itching to so something/ be itching for something (informal): to want to do something very much and as soon as possible
After getting my promise to hang out with him, he is itching to go to the park over two hours.
3. And you could tell Rowley didn't know what he was doing either, because he just started prancing around like a leprechaun.
* prance: to walk or dance with high steps or large movements, especially in a confident way.
We used to prance around our bedroom pretending to be pop stars.
My sentence:
When I was five years old, the most interesting game for my cousin and I was to prance around her bed to sing and dance as a singer in the MV.
4. A bunch of teenagers had stopped their pickup truck, and they started piling out.
*pile out: if people pile out, they leave a place or get out of a vehicle quickly and in a disorganized way.
Edward parked by the river and we piled out.
My sentence:
Those freshmen in the army piled out the truck at the first time and were trained to get out in order in a day.
5. Rowley got singled out first.
* single somebody/ something out: to choose one person or thing from among a group because they are better, worse, more important etc than the others.
One programme was singled out as being particularly good.
My sentence:
As one of the best translators among those students, he was singled out to participate the meeting.
#记例句 📚
1. Rowley is getting all the credit for a comic that we came up with together. I figured the least he could do was put my name on the strip as the co-creator.
这一段的描述适用于团队协作时，一方独享所有荣誉，而另一方想要为自己讨回公道。get all the credit for something, the least he could do 其中all 和 least 的对比，也表明了说话者心里的气愤。
My sentence:
During the whole summer holiday, Dave, Lucy and I were devising the new mansion model for October competition in Shanghai. We varied in the design of the front lobby and argued to give up the design. But I just found that Dave and Lucy handed it and got all the credit for the model that we came up with together. Now the least they could do was put my name on the model as the co-creator. However they insisted on their own efforts but not me.
2. The kids at my school are always itching to see a fight. Me and Rowley tried to walk away, but those guys weren't going to let us go until they saw us throw some punches.
周边人的煽风点火让打架不可避免。itch是看客们的蠢蠢欲动，而throw a punch的意思是 to try to hit someone with your hand in a fight.拳打 这样的打架场面描述的简单，实用。
My sentence:
Some advice the couple to argue inside their home other than outside. Because the onlookers are always itching to see a quarrel and sometimes they will not stop it although you may have thrown punches on the others.
3. But before we could make a run for it, we had our arms pinned behind our backs.
双手被绑缚在背后。实用表达。
Once catching the theft, the police pinned the theft's arms behind his back to arrest him.
# Diary 🌼
This is the last note for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1. I have uploaded 17 notes for it and spent over two hours every day to learn it.
Before I made the detailed and specific note for it, I have listened the audible file in two hours to grasp the outline of the story. At first, I thought it easy for me to finish the note within 40 minutes, since I only need to read 10 pages each day. The truth is that I can't totally explain the specific meaning of every sentence although I can understand it in general. There are many informal and AmE expressions, which are used mainly in the United States and in spoken English. It is reasonable to use those words cause it was written by a child.
I am not able to remember them totally after a month-study. Because I did not review them and recite them day after day. But at least I have did it in a month and found my problem in studying English. Therefore I have joined the Diary of a Wimpy kid 2 and hoped to get more improvements next month.
Hello, July. 🌼
