常見的片語動詞

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.

動詞	意思	例句
call on	叫 (學生) 背誦；要求做	The teacher called on students in the back row.
call on (2)	拜訪	The old minister continued to call on his sick parishioners.
get over	(自生病或失望中) 復原，痊癒	I got over the flu, but I don't know if I'll ever get over my broken heart.
go over	複習	The students went over the material before the exam. They should have gone over it twice.
go through	用完，耗盡	They country went through most of its coal reserves in one year. Did he go through all his money already?
look after	照顧，照料	My mother promised to look after my dog while I was gone.
look into	調查	The police will look into the possibilities of embezzlement.
run across	偶遇	I ran across my old roommate at the college reunion.
run into	偶遇，遇見	Carlos ran into his English professor in the hallway.
take after	像，相似	My second son seems to take after his mother.
wait on	伺候，服務	It seemed strange to see my old boss wait on tables.

動詞	意思	例句
break in on	打斷 (交談)	I was talking to Mom on the phone when the operator broke in on our call.
catch up with	追及，趕上	After our month-long trip, it was time to catch up with the neighbors and the news around town.
check up on	檢查，調查	The boys promised to check up on the condition of the summer house from time to time.
come up with	建議，捐獻	After years of giving nothing, the old parishioner was able to come up with a thousand-dollar donation.
cut down on	縮減 (開支)	We tried to cut down on the money we were spending on entertainment.
drop out of	中途退學	I hope none of my students drop out of school this semester.
get along with	相處融洽	I found it very hard to get along with my brother when we were young.
get away with	逃避處罰	Janik cheated on the exam and then tried to get away with it.
get rid of	除去	The citizens tried to get rid of their corrupt mayor in the recent election.
get through with	完成	When will you ever get through with that program?
keep up with	趕得上，保持與.....同樣的速度	It's hard to keep up with the Joneses when you lose your job!
look forward to	快樂地期盼，盼望	I always look forward to the beginning of a new semester.
look down on	輕視，瞧不起	It's typical of a jingoistic country that the citizens look down on their geographical neighbors.
look in on	順道拜訪 (某人)	We were going to look in on my brother-in-law, but he wasn't home.
look out for	注意查看，預見	Good instructors will look out for early signs of failure in their students
look up to	尊敬	First-graders really look up to their teachers.
make sure of	查明	Make sure of the student's identity before you let him into the classroom.
put up with	忍耐	The teacher had to put up with a great deal of nonsense from the new students.
run out of	耗盡	The runners ran out of energy before the end of the race.
take care of	負責，照顧	My oldest sister took care of us younger children after Mom died.
talk back to	反唇相譏，頂嘴	The star player talked back to the coach and was thrown off the team.
think back on	憶起，記起	I often think back on my childhood with great pleasure.
walk out on	遺棄	Her husband walked out on her and their three children.

動詞	意思	例句
break down	損壞，故障	That old Jeep had a tendency to break down just when I needed it the most.
catch on	變得流行	Popular songs seem to catch on in California first and then spread eastward.
come back	回到 (某地)	Father promised that we would never come back to this horrible place.
come in	進入	They tried to come in through the back door, but it was locked.
come to	恢復知覺	He was hit on the head very hard, but after several minutes, he started to come to again.
come over	訪問	The children promised to come over, but they never do.
drop by	未事先約定地造訪	We used to just drop by, but they were never home, so we stopped doing that.
eat out	在 (餐廳等) 用餐	When we visited Paris, we loved eating out in the sidewalk cafes.
get by	存活	Uncle Heine didn't have much money, but he always seemed to get by without borrowing money from relatives.
get up	起床，起來	Grandmother tried to get up, but the couch was too low, and she couldn't make it on her own.
go back	回到 (某地)	It's hard to imagine that we will ever go back to Kaohsiung.
go on	繼續	He would finish one Dickens novel and then just go on to the next.
go on (2)	發生	The cops heard all the noise and stopped to see what was going on.
grow up	長大	Charles grew up to be a lot like his father.
keep away	遠離	The judge warned the stalker to keep away from his victim's home.
keep on ( +Ving)	繼續 (做某事)	He tried to keep on singing long after his voice was ruined.
pass out	昏厥，失去知覺	He had drunk too much; he passed out on the sidewalk outside the bar.
show off	炫耀	Whenever he sat down at the piano, we knew he was going to show off.
show up	出現	Day after day, Efrain showed up for class twenty minutes late.
wake up	起床，喚醒	I woke up when the rooster crowed.