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Part One 你听不懂的

64，000 dollar question 最重要的问题，最困难的问题

Stephanie always complains about her job. I think the 64000 dollar question is why she puts up with it if she is so unhappy.

We know we didn’t leave the office window open, so the sixty-dour thousand dollar question is ---who did?

Steal someone’s thunder 抢先做别人想做的事，削弱某人的优势

Jerry told his colleague¹ about his idea for the new advertisement and the colleague eventually stole his thunder by writing a similar proposal².

I was going to introduce my talk by giving a brief history of our group but the previous speaker stole my thunder by doing just that.

Part Two 你说不出的

Call it Even；

剧中对白：(第八季第二集)

Chandler：Okay．You opened all the presents without me?! I thought we were supposed to do that together!

钱德勒：好吧。我不在，你已经拆开了所有的礼物?!我以为我们两个应该一起拆礼物!

Monica：You kissed another woman 莫尼卡：但是你吻了另外一个女人!

Chandler：Call it even?! 钱德勒：所以我们扯平了?!

Part Three 有趣的故事，介词用法的千变万化

They look in at the door. 从门口向屋里张望。

Go out at the door. 从门口出来。

Go in by the back door. 走后门。

The bill for the last month. 上个月的账单。

I saw him go out at the gate of the ocean park this afternoon.

今天下午我看见他从海洋公园的门口走出去。

This is the book on Taekwondo. 这是一部关于关于跆拳道的书。

The summer in Hongkong. 香港的夏天。

1 colleague   

n.同僚，同事

参考例句：

• He is a colleague of mine.他是我的同事。
• The professor paid a return visit to his American colleague.教授回访了他的美国同事。

2 proposal   

n.提议，建议；求婚

参考例句：

• I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.我觉得我们应该接受他的建议。
• They could not gain over anyone to support their proposal.他们无法争取到支持他们建议的人。