fundamental idioms

من طرف **الرشيد** الخميس أكتوبر 07, 2010 8:42 pm

We have to know that poem by heart.

by mistake = (in error)

خطأ

He made a telephone call by mistake.

by oneself = (alone)

بنفسه

Jack did the work by himself. No one helped him.

by the way = (incidentally)

بالمناسبة

By the way, have you seen George in London ?

to call down = (to scold, reprimand)

يوبخ

Don’t call Mary down for that mistake. I am sure she did not do it on purpose.

to call for = (to go to get, pick up)

يعرج على شخص كي يذهب معه لمكان آخر

He promised to call for Ann at six o’clock.

to call off = (to cancel)

يلغي

The flight between the two states will be called off temporarily.

to call on = (to visit)

يزور زيارة قصيرة

Last night several friends called on us.

to call up = (to telephone, phone, ring up)

يتلفن

Did Martin call me up last night ?

to carry out = ( to complete, accomplish)

ينفذ

The engineer carried out this plan without difficulty.

to catch cold = (to become sick with the cold)

يصاب بالزكام

If you go out in this rain, you will certainly catch cold.

to catch fire = (to begin to burn)

يشتعل

No one seems to know how the building caught fire.

to catch on = (to understand. particularly to grasp the meaning of a humorous story)

يدرك أو يفهم الفكرة

Did you catch on what Richard said ?

to check out = (leaving time, (a hotel)

يسجل مغادرة ، يدفع حساب الفندق ويغادره

The tourist checked out at 11 a.m.

to check up = (to examine, check, inspect)

فحص طبى

Susan is going to doctor to have a general check up.

to cheer up = (to make happier, inspire)

يبهج

I have some news which I am sure will cheer you up.

to come about = (to happen, result)

يحدث

How did the accident come about ?

to come across = (to find by chance, or meet unexpectedly)

يقابل صدفة

While I was going to Madrid, I came across my friend Martin.

to come to = (to revive)

يفيق من غيبوبة

At first we thought the man was dead but soon he came to.

to come true = (to prove to be true or correct)

يتحقق

What the radio said about the weather for today has certainly come true.

to cross out = (to cancel – often by marking with crosses, omit)

يشطب

Why did you cross out the last line of your composition?

to cut in = (to interrupt, enter sharply into the path of another)

يقاطع شخصا أثناء الحديث

We were talking quietly when she cut in.

to cut off = (to remove by cutting the ends -- also to terminate abruptly)

يقطع

The rope was too long; so we cut off about six feet of it.

to cut out = (to remove by cutting – also to stop doing something)

يبتر ، ينقطع عن ، يترك

I wish I could cut out smoking.

to die away = (to diminish gradually in the distance, referring to sound)

يضمحل ، يزول ، يتلاشى

The sound of the horn on the excursion train slowly died away.

to die down = (to decrease, lessen in intensity)

يتناقص ، يتضاءل

The room seemed warm enough: so we let the fire die down.

to die out = (to disappear gradually but completely)

يزول ، ينقرض ، يختفي

The style of that sport died out years ago.

من طرف الليل الإثنين أكتوبر 11, 2010 4:28 am

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fundamental idioms

fundamental idioms

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