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9, 形容黑的表达方式:

black as skillet

black as coal

black as night

black as a stack of black cats

black as pitch

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10，dark 多形容心情和环境

The park is dark today because there is no moon.

例如He has dark thoughts. dark thoughts. 这里指evil thoughts。

blackout 停电，也可以指lose consciousness。

例如He blackout for almost a minute. After the accident, he could remember what happened.

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blackout也有涂黑遮掩的意思，例如The date on the letter had been blacked out.
black mark besides one's name. 指的是sth. negative associated with the person. Oops, I made the same mistake again. I’ve got another black mark beside my name now.

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black and blue意思是有瘀青，badly bruised。例如I knocked my hands on the other day onto the wooden chair. It turns black and blue. 也可以指精神上受到伤害，例如He is still black and blue from his divorce.
swear black and blue 发誓
例如He swore black and blue that he had nothing to do with the money that is missing.

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black box, a device for automatic recording of the details inside an airplane or helicopter.

“黑匣子”是飞机专用的电子记录设备之一，名为航空飞行记录器。里面装有飞行数据记录器和舱声录音器。例如They found the black box from the wreckage of the crashed plane.

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This trip has certainly broadened my horizons.
此次旅行确实让我大开眼界。
注释：
1. 我们一般比较了解horizon作为“地平线”的用法，而某人的“地平线”呢？  
我们可以联想一下，把这看做一个人目所能及的界限。站得越高看得越远，界限也就越宽广，someone's horizons也就是某人的“见识，眼界”。如果某事已经on the horizon了，也就是你已经能看到、预见到了，即指这件事已“初露端倪，即将发生”。我们常说的“希望的曙光”也可以用这个短语来表示，即 glimmers of hope on the horizon。
2. broaden someone's horizons即指“开阔眼界”，也可以用widen、expand来替换。我们还常用到broaden someone's mind，表示“开阔心胸”。这两个词组的区别在于，broaden someone's horizons强调增长见识、丰富经验，而broaden someone's mind强调增强某人的接受能力，让人能够更乐意接受他人的信仰和习俗。
Broaden/widen/expand somebody's horizons means to increase the range of things that someone knows about, has experienced, or is able to do.

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The law will be put into effect next month.
该法案将于下个月生效。
注释：
1. put something into effect表示“实施（计划），实现（想法）”，也可以用bring和carry来替换。
If you put, bring, or carry a plan or idea into effect, you cause it to happen in practice.

2. 和这个短语很类似的还有take effect和come into effect。这几个短语都可翻作“生效”，区别在于，put/bring/carry into effect可用于被动语态；take effect和come into effect强调一种法律效力，不能用于被动语态。take effect还可指“见效，开始起作用”。
If a law or policy takes effect or comes into effect at a particular time, it officially begins to apply or be valid from that time. If it remains in effect, it still applies or is still valid.

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Do not expose the film to the light.
不要将胶卷暴露在阳光下。

注释：
1. expose to指“暴露，显露”。现在我们拍照比较常用手机、数码相机等，使用过胶卷相机的贝友应该知道，如果胶卷没有收回胶卷盒，而是直接暴露在了阳光下，胶卷就会曝光。film除了“电影”，还可指“胶卷”。
To expose something that is usually hidden means to uncover it so that it can be seen.

2. be exposed to表示“使暴露于，使遭受”，比如某种险境或不快。如果后接的是某种想法或情绪，则指“使受……的影响、熏陶，使接触”。
If someone is exposed to something dangerous or unpleasant, they are put in a situation in which it might affect them.  
If someone is exposed to an idea or feeling, usually a new one, they are given experience of it, or introduced to it.

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In the event of rain the game will be cancelled.  
如果下雨，比赛将被取消。
注释：
1. in the event of表示“万一发生……；如果是那样子的话；假若……”，我们也可以用in the event that，或是in that event。这里不仅是在描述未来的一种可能性，更强调如果事情真的发生了打算怎么办。
You use in the event of, in the event that, and in that event when you are talking about a possible future situation, especially when you are planning what to do if it occurs.

2. 需要注意的是，如果是in the event，则表示“结果，到头来”。我们来看一个例句：
We had expected to arrive an hour late, but in the event we were early.  
我们本以为要迟到一个小时，但最后来早了。

前一句描述了可能发生、但最终没有发生的事，in the event后接过去实际发生的情况，表示“结果”。
You say in the event after you have been discussing what could have happened in a particular situation, in order to indicate that you are now describing what actually did happen.

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By and large, he is an easy going person.
总得来说，他是个随和的人。

1. By and large在上文中表示“总的来说，大体而言”，近义词组有：generally，more often than not，mostly。
You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
我们用by and large来指示一些大体如此、但不完全正确的事情。

2. At large也可以表示“大多数，一般”。
You use at large to indicate that you are talking in a general way about most of the people mentioned.
不过与by and large不一样的是，这个词组强调的是大部分人的共性，不提个性。
例：Amongst the population at large the support for the present regime is virtually zero.
在一般大众中，支持现政权的人数几乎是零。