一、按场景分类：
1、论文
-题目难定(太大)：too broad a topic
-资料难查(太多)：too much material to cover
2、笔记
-考笔记：be based on the lecture/notes
-字难认：make out/recognize handwriting
3、考试
-永远难：was supposed to be easy
-不推迟：put it off, hold off, delay, postpone
-分数低：及格passing grade，不及格failing grade，好分数perfect grade
-心里不好受：down
*take-home exam开卷考试，workshop研讨会，seminar研究会
4、评价教授
-小对话中(不好)，段子题中(好)
-不迟到：punctual/prompt，不早退，常拖堂：run over time/late,
-要求严，出题难，给分低
*听不懂：be lost/be all at sea/in the dark
*听懂：figure out/make sense/catch/follow words
*打瞌睡：drop off/doze off, keep watching the clock, keep counting the time.
5、作业
-作业多：I've had enough of it.(I'll never have enough of it.高兴语气)
*have one's hands full, be tied up, be booked, be up to one's eyes/ears/neck with work. Have a million things to do. Study 48 hours in a day.
-想迟交，不迟交：交作业hand in/ turn in, 迟交extension, 多给时间extra/more time
6、熬夜
-常熬夜：sit up, stay doing sth
-不熬夜：get out of it, wise
7、书店
-有货没货：in stock/ out of stock
-印，不印：in /out of print
-过时：out-dated, 最新的：updated/current
-平装：paper back，精装：hard back
8、图书馆
-还书recall a book, library loan, 续借renew, 传记作者biographer, 微缩胶片 microfiche
-罚钱：verdue, late return, fine , moratorium(暂停，推迟)
9、电话
-定主题，听语气，背套话
* 电话号码本：yellow pages, telephone directory，干扰static，接通put through
* 占着电话tie up, be off下线断线,过会打给你get back to sb.
10、选课
-先学入门课intro/basic/prerequisite，再学高级课，教授得同意approval/permission/signiture
-三大顾虑:too much, too difficult, intro course
-课程难，心情不好
-少选明智，多选犯傻，时刻准备退课drop
二、零散必备习语
1、询问：
-怎么了?What's up/matter/wrong with sb? how have you been? How are you coming along/doing? What's new with you?
-感觉如何?What do you think of sth? How do you like sth? How do you find sth? How do you feel about sth? Would you like A or B? Do you feel like sth? Are you in a mood for anything?
2、建议/想法：
-我认为I suspect, 我确认I bet, 我估计I expect, 我不认为I doubt, 我原以为I thought, 我原以为I was hoping, 我曾经是I used to be, 我本应该I was supposed to
-hasn't he, isn't it +ever/though.可不是吗!(很同意)
-赞同：You bet. Sure thing. And how. Isn't it though/ever. Go ahead. By all means.
-责备：When will you ever do sth? Do I have to tell you? Don't I tell you sth? Why didn't you.
-if only 要是…就好了。答案的标志是虚拟语气和wish.
-一点也不奇怪：no wonder. Little surprise.
-提醒：I don't think you'll do… I was wondering if you will do sth. I don't imagine if you do. You have not done sth, have you?
-听我说：You know why. Tell me why.
-听某人的建议：go by/follow/listen to one's suggestion
-我本想做某事(但没做）I meant to do.. should have given. .Was supposed to do sth. I have been meaning to..
3、意愿/态度：
-不介意：not at all, not a bit/little, not in the slightest, not in the least
-不愿让人做某事：make sb uncomfortable to do sth
-be the last thing +定从,最不希望的，最不需要的，最不愿意的。
-not that, not as…adj….as you think不至于那么过分吧
-对我都一样：It makes no difference to me. Does it make any difference. What differencedoes it make. It's all the same to me.
-开玩笑吧：So you say. Pull my leg.
-你真了不起：You are somebody. You are a big potato.
-for the life of sb无论如何
4、时间：
-挤时间做某事：get around to do sth, take time out/off from doing sth, spare time to do sth, afford time to do sth, squeeze/steal time to do
-快，马上：in no time, by and by, on short notice, right now/away/off, in a moment/minute/second
-顺便看望：drop/stop/come by/over/in
-太忙heavy/busy/tight schedule
-有时，偶而：occasionally, sometimes, every so often, every now and them, every once in a while, at times, from time to time, on and off.
-逐步地：gradually, step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch , piece by piece, line by line, word by word.
-on one's way 马上出发; on the way已经在路
-up to :胜任：it's up to sb to do sth, sb is up to doing sth②熬夜sit/be up to do sth③达到up to sth
5、情绪：
lose his cool失去冷静
cool off冷静，天气变冷
play it cool 冷静
-生气：be put out with sb, be burned up at sb, get one's back up, hit/raise the roof/ceiling, be enraged, get on one's nerve, rub sb the wrong way, annoy/irritate sb.
-吃惊：Jees. Boy! Man! Jesus christ! Dear me! Wow!
-流泪my eyes swim in tears, shed tears of remorse, I can't hold back my tears
6、性格：
-对人宽容go easy on sb. Be lenient with. Be kind to
-健忘slip one's mind/memory. Have a shot memory, not good with.. be terrible with.. forgetful, absent-minded, scatter-brain, go in one ear and out the other. Wops.
-在某方面擅长know the stuff/ropes/tricks/one's beans
-不辞辛苦做某事go out of one's way to do. Take great trouble to do sth. Go extra miles to do sth.
7、地点：
-去哪里，朝哪里去head to/for sw, make for, leave for, set out for, be off to, be away to
8、天气：
-太热super/burning/blazing/unbearable/scorcher hot
9、as…as…
as cool as a cucumber, as fit as fiddle, as healthy as horse, as poor as a church mouse, as strong as an ox, as like as two peas(长得象)，peas and carrots(形影不离)，apples and oranges(大不相同)，as proud as peacock, as changeable as moon, as punctual as a church clock, as sly as fox, as light as feather, as hungry as a wolf.
其他：
put up①挂起②住宿
pick up①取东西②接人③买东西
go through①用完②检查③经历过④办手续
get over①完成作业②病痊愈③忘掉(不愉快)
check out①检查，询问②借书③出院④退房
come in handy派上用场，会有用的
bottom line说话的核心，well, the bottom line is that…
*为重点记忆习语
