1.loved sb from the first moment we met 对某人一见钟情
例句:"We loved one another from the first moment we met, though we did not speak of our love until the evening of my eighteenth birthday.
"我和理查德是一见钟情,尽管直到我18岁生日那天我们才表示彼此的爱慕之情。
2.board with 寄宿,搭伙
例句:He was an Englishman who boarded with the Van Rensburgs on the next farm, four or five miles from us.
他是一个英国人,寄宿在我家附近四、五英里一个农场上的范·伦斯堡家里。
3. quarrel withsb同某人吵架
例句:Indeed, for a time he had quarreled with Mynheer Van Rensburg for allowing Richard to board with him, but afterwards he got used to the idea.
有一次,他曾抱怨说伦斯堡先生不应该让理查德寄住在他的家里,为此还跟他吵过一场,他后来就习以为常了。
4.full of promise 充满希望,欣欣向荣
例句:"I do not remember very much more about that day, except that the sun seemed to have stopped shining and the country no longer looked beautiful and full of promise, but bleak and desolate as it sometimes does in winter or in times of drought.
"那天的事我记不大清楚了,只记得当时阳光惨淡,田野也失去了美丽的丰采和欣欣向荣的景象,萧瑟凄凉得跟冬天或大旱时一样。