英文筆記：片語動詞 Boxed In

Boxed In 受限制的
Are you a creature of habit or to do routines make you feel boxed in?
I really feel boxed in around here.

Boxed In 被困住的
Well, I guess I am not leaving yet because my car is boxed in.

英文筆記：片語動詞 Nose Around

Nose Around 偷看

I always wanted to have a nose around that restaurant's kitchen.
What were you doing nosing around in my office?

英文筆記：片語動詞 Chill Out

Chill Out 放輕鬆

After a hard day at work, Alex likes to chill out in his chair.
When I finsh studying all my phrasal verbs, I can chill out.

Chillout music

英文筆記：片語動詞 Doze Off

Doze Off 打瞌睡

Many people doze off while watching TV.
He was so tired after school that he started to doze off on the bus.

doze/ dozed/ dozed

英文筆記：片語動詞 Cast Aside

Cast Aside 丟到一邊。不理某物、某事，因為不再需要它。

His superiors had cast him aside.
Kids tend to cast aside toys when they get new, shiny ones.
Before my father died I cast it all aside, lived as I imagined I wanted to live.

How could she now cast her aside as though it had meant nothing, a phase she had gone through?

cast/ cast/ cast

英文筆記：片語動詞 Disagree With

Disaagree With Sb 讓你的身體感到不舒服

Shirmp disagrees with me.
I don't drink milk because it disagrees with me.

英文筆記：片語動詞 Wash Up

Wash Up 洗臉或洗手

Make sure to wash up before dinner.
Pack away your art supplies and then wash up.

英文筆記：片語動詞 Carry Out

Carry Out 執行、完成

A survey is now being carried out nationwide.
Turn off the water supply before carrying out repairs.


carry out work
carry out your duties/ responsibilities
carry out a job/ task
carry out research
carry out a survey
carry out a check
carry out a task
carry out an experiment
carry out a review
carry out a study
carry out an investigation
carry out an inquiry
carry out an assessment
carry out a search
carry out an attack

書面：Conduct
They conducted experiments to test this theory.

carry/ carried/ carried

英文筆記：片語動詞 Bluff Your Way

Bluff Your Way 靠著虛張聲勢，蒙混過關

bluff your way out of/ through/ past ect. sb/ sth

She successfully bluffed her way through the interview.
I hope we'll be able bluff our way past the guard.

bluff/ bluffed/ bluffed

英文筆記：片語動詞 Walk Off

Walk Off

1. 因為生氣、不爽而突然走開
Don't just walk off, when I trying to talk to you!

2. 去走一走緩解不舒服的感覺
We walk off a heavy Sunday lunch.
Let's go out, maybe I can walk this headache off.
walk off dinner/ a meal

3. 罷工
Without new contracts, mine workers will walk off their jobs Thursday.

英文筆記：片語動詞 Break Down

Break Down

1. （機器、車子）故障停止運作
We (= the car) brock down on the freeway.

2. 失敗（破裂）
Negotiations between the two sides have broken down.
I left London when my marriage broke down.

3. 擊破（固體）
Firefighters had to break the door down to reach the people trapped inside.

4. 打破 （情感上的）
It takes time to break down prejudices.

5. 分解
Food is broken down in the stomach.

6. 分成
Break your expenditure down into bills, food and other.

7. 情緒崩潰
She broke down in tears when she heard the news.

break/ broke/ broken

英文筆記：片語動詞 Come By

Come By

1. 順道拜訪
I'll come by the house and get my stuff later, ok?

2. 到手某樣稀少、困難得到的東西
Jobs are hard to come by these days.
How did you come by these pictures?
While I was shopping, I came by this great skirt on sale.

come/ came/ come
come around

英文筆記：片語動詞 Brag About

Brag About 炫耀

He brags all the time about his cars.
He brags about me to his friends.
I don't brag much.
I don't like to brag.
It's nothing to brag about.

brag/ bragged/ bragged

英文筆記：片語動詞 Come Around

Come Around

1. 拜訪
You should come around for a drink sometime.

come by

2. 釋懷（改變自己的原先意見，去同意某人的看法不再生氣）
It took him a while to come around to the idea.
Don't worry, she will come around eventually.
He'll never come around to our way of thinking.

3. 恢復知覺
When she came around her mother was sitting by her bed.
You might feel little sick when you come around from the anaesthetic.

4. （常規事件、日期）一如往常的發生
My birthsday seems come around quicker every year.
By the time the summer came around, Kelly was felling much better.

come/ came/ come

英文筆記：片語動詞 Look Into

Look Into 調查

The working party has been set up to look into the problem.
Police are looking into disppearance of two children.

英文筆記：片語動詞 Step Into Sth

Step Into Sth 

1. 取代、從事
We would like you to step in as the interim head of department.

2. 介入、干涉
She stepped into it and solved our problem.

step/ stepped/ stepped

英文筆記：片語動詞 Sing Along To/With Sth

Sing Along To/With Sth 跟著唱、一起合唱

She loves singing along to the radio.
Feel free to sing along if you know this song.

sing/ sang/ sung

英文筆記：片語動詞 Move In(to)

Move In(to) 搬進

A new family recently moved in across the road from us.
Have you moved into your new offices yet?

英文筆記：片語動詞 Block Off

Block Off 道路關閉、阻擋入口，不讓人進去

All the roads out of the towns had been blocked off by police.
Use the chairs to block off the passageway so that children don't go down there.

block/ blocked/ blocked
shut down

英文筆記：片語動詞 Look After Sb/Sth

Look after 

1. 照看、照顧
Don't worry. I will look after the kids tomorrow.

2. 確保某人的利益
He is good at looking after his own interests

take care