動詞   意思   例句
blow up  爆炸  The terrorists tried to blow up the railroad station.  
bring up  提起  My mother brought up that little matter of my prison record again.
bring up  養育,扶養  It isn't easy to bring up children nowadays.
call off  取消  They called off this afternoon's meeting
do over  重複,重做  Do this homework over.
fill out  填好  Fill out this application form and mail it in.
fill up  填滿  She filled up the grocery cart with free food.
find out  發現  My sister found out that her husband had been planning a surprise party for her.
give away  贈送  The filling station was giving away free gas.
give back  歸還  My brother borrowed my car. I have a feeling he's not about to give it back.
hand in  呈遞,繳交  The students handed in their papers and left the room.
hang up  懸掛;掛斷電話  She hung up the phone before she hung up her clothes.
hold up  使延遲  I hate to hold up the meeting, but I have to go to the bathroom.
 
hold up (2)  搶劫  Three masked gunmen held up the Security Bank this afternoon.
 
leave out  省略,遺漏  You left out the part about the police chase down Asylum Avenue.
 
look over  檢查,查看  The lawyers looked over the papers carefully before  questioning the 
witness. (They looked them over carefully.)
 
look up  尋找 (某物),在 (字典中) 查明  You've misspelled this word again. You'd better look it up.
make up  虛構,捏造  She knew she was in trouble, so she made up a story about going to the 
movies with her friends.
 
make out  聽到,瞭解  He was so far away, we really couldn't make out what he was saying.
 
pick out  挑選  There were three men in the line-up. She picked out the guy she thought had stolen her purse.
 
pick up  舉起,抬起  The crane picked up the entire house. (Watch them pick it up.)
 
point out  引起注意  As we drove through Paris, Francoise pointed out the major historical sites.
 
put away  儲蓄,儲存  We put away money for our retirement. She put away the cereal boxes.
 
put off  延期  We asked the boss to put off the meeting until tomorrow. (Please put it off for 
another day.)
put on  穿、戴 (衣物、帽子等)  I put on a sweater and a jacket. (I put them on quickly.)
 
put out  熄滅  The firefighters put out the house fire before it could spread. (They put it out quickly.)
 
read over  詳讀  I read over the homework, but couldn't make any sense of it.
 
set up  布置,開始  My wife set up the living room exactly the way she wanted it. She set it up.
 
take down  記下  These are your instructions. Write them down before you forget.
 
take off  脫去 (衣、帽)  It was so hot that I had to take off my shirt.
 
talk over  討論  We have serious problems here. Let's talk them over like adults.
 
throw away  丟棄,拋棄  That's a lot of money! Don't just throw it away.
 
try on  試穿,試戴  She tried on fifteen dresses before she found one she liked.
 
try out  嚴格地試驗  I tried out four cars before I could find one that pleased me.
 
turn down  降低音量  Your radio is driving me crazy! Please turn it down.
 
turn down (2)  拒絕  He applied for a promotion twice this year, but he was turned down both 
times.
 
turn off  關掉 (電燈等)  We turned off the lights before anyone could see us.
 
turn off (2)  排斥  It was a disgusting movie. It really turned me off.
 
turn on  打開 (電燈等)  Turn on the CD player so we can dance.
 
turn up  調高音量  Grandpa couldn't hear, so he turned up his hearing aid.
 
use up  用光,用盡  The gang members used up all the money and went out to rob some more banks.