• Take aback: Surprise or shock; to discomfit
• Take after: Resemble (a parent or ancestor) in appearance or habit
• Take against: Stop liking someone; to become unfriendly toward
• Take apart: Dismantle something into its component pieces
• Take aside: Get someone alone to talk to them
• Take away: Remove something and put it in a different p…[阅读更多]

• Stand aside: Step sideways to make a space for someone else
• Stand aside: Leave a job or position voluntarily so that someone else can have it instead
• Stand aside: Temporarily recuse oneself from action or decisionmaking in some domain
• Stand back: Maintain a safe distance from a hazard
• Stand back: Abstain from participation
• Stand by: W…[阅读更多]

• Speak for: Speak on somebody’s behalf
• Speak for: Claim, reserve, or occupy
• Speak for: Represent an intrinsic quality
• Speak for oneself: Provide an opinion only on one,s own behalf
• Speak for oneself: Expressing disagreement with an opinion expressed by another
• Speak for oneself: Have obvious meaning; to require no explanation…[阅读更多]

• Set about: Initiate or begin some action
• Set about: Attack
• Set aside: Separate and reserve something for a specific purpose
• Set back: Delay or obstruct
• Set back: Remove from or allow distance
• Set back: Cost money, as
• Set down: Write
• Set forth: Begin a journey or expedition
• Set in: Take root, become established
• Set…[阅读更多]

• Send away: Dismiss from one’s presence
• Send away: Send to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc.
• Send away for: Write to a business or other organisation, requesting a thing
• Send back: Return (something) to its origin
• Send back: Remind (someone) of a previous time in the past
• Send down: Suspend or…[阅读更多]