#字词篇

1. I don't think Dad approved of Larry Larkin and all his piercings.

piercing: 可做名词表示“穿孔”，也可以做形容词表示“锐利的，尖锐的”

piercing来源于动词pierce，例如女孩子打耳洞就可以说get one's ear pierced

造句：My parents ban my brother from getting his ear pierced.

2. He's been such a jerk to me lately that I can't believe he was trying to hit me up for a favor. So Mom volunteered for camera duty.

hit somebody up: to ask somebody for something

volunteer for something=volunteer to do something都表示“自愿做某事”

但是如果是volunteer somebody for something,意思就大不一样了， 它表示的是to say that someone else will do a job even though they may not want to do it

造句：I said no when my brother hit me up for a favor, so my dad volunteered to help him.

3. That's when Mon started dancing. And whoever was doing the film zoomed right in on Mom, and kept the camera pointed at her for the rest of the song.

do the film: 这里表示的是“录片子”，film还与一个重要的词义就是“胶卷”

zoom in放大，扩大，联系zoom out就是缩小的意思

keep the camera pointed at her, pointed这里是过去分词表示状态

造句：At the beginning of the movie, the camera zooms in to show two people sitting by the side of the river.

#句子篇

By tomorrow morning, everyone at my school will know the story. And I'm sure Rodrick exaggerated the facts to make the story sound even worse. Now that my secret's out there, I want to put on record what really happened, and not Rodrick's twisted version.

put on record=say something officially and publicly

exaggerate表示夸大…的事实作用/影响，同义表达还有make too much of something/ overstate

now that 既然（如此）

someone's twisted version直译是“扭曲的版本”，这里指的是Rodrick泄密时添油加醋的版本

造句：In my brother's  twisted version, he made too much of the effect of that mistake.

#作文篇

Today I played  gobang with my cousin. Before the game, he announced that he was a gobang genius, and I thought I would be dead meat this afternoon. However, he has been losing to me in a row until the fifth round kicked off. In order not to hurt his feelings, I came up a brilliant idea that I would play a trick and help him win. However, apparently my cousin did not get my intent. For several times I was on the edge of winning, but I just skipped it and pretended that I never identify my good luck. To my surprise, my cousin did not identify his, either. And it turned out that he missed his chance, which I gave to him on purpose, every time. Guess what happened in the end.? It was my cousin who reminded me that I have already won the game. Suddenly I realized how naive and lovely a little boy my cousin was. But right when I felt sorry for him, I heard he retold the whole story to my mom, and added that how stupid I was...

#其他知识点

tap-dance踢踏舞，juggle杂耍

ring in文中表示“插话进去”