#字詞篇
1. Mr. Roy seemed pretty satisfied with my apology, and he let me go without even tacking on any detention.
tack on something: to add something extra
detention: 扣留励翼，扣押棵红，放學(xué)后留校
造句：They tacked an additional 18% on the bill as a service charge.
2. Mom didn't seem to happy with what I said, but it's not my fault I'm broke.......but the people I worked for stiffed me.
be broke在這里表示“破產(chǎn)刑巧，沒錢悲幅，囊中羞澀”，另外表示“不名一錢或者負債/赤字”還可以說penniless, in the red, impoverished...
stiff someone表示“詐騙，不還錢艘虎，尤指不給小費”
造句：I went to broke because the boss I worked for stiffed me.?
3. But Rordrick went down to the convenience store and blew his money on some heavy-mental magazines.
blow something on something: 在某事上花大價錢斋射，揮霍to spend a lot of money on something
造句：Every year my brother will blow his money on some stupid video games.
#句子篇
But every time I'd leave, Princess would make a big mess in the foyer, and I'd have to clean it up the next day. Toward the end of the summer?I got smart and realized it would be a whole lot easier to just clean up all of Princess's messes at once instead of doing it every single day.
表示“把……搞砸，弄臟弄亂”可以有多種表達蕾额，例如mess up, screw up, blow something, make a big mess等
toward the end of the summer是介詞短語做時間狀語早芭，然后這里的用法是介詞短語前置
a whole lot=very much or a great deal 在之前的書中也出現(xiàn)過這個表達
instead of doing something
at once一次，一下子（解決）诅蝶，例如“一勞永逸”可以說put things right once and for all
造句：Toward the end of this week ?I finally found the person who messed my papers up. But I realized it was a whole lot tougher to face him firsthand.?
#作文篇
There was a drenching rain outside and power failure indoors. With nothing serious to do, I just decided to have a house meeting with my younger brother. You know, my brother recently often?got detained by his math teacher. I asked him firsthand the reason and he replied that it was because he helped his classmate cheat when the teacher asked him questions. To be honest with you, I didn't believe even a word of what he said. So I kept digging and my brother confessed that his classmate paid 5 yuan for that every time. It drove me really nuts and I warned him it must be stopped. But my brother said if he was broke, then it just was my fault.?
#其他知識點
And now I can tell you firsthand that it's true. firsthand這里的意思是“直接地”退个，相當(dāng)于directly.
kennel狗窩募壕，養(yǎng)狗場
gun-shy （獵犬，馬等）被槍炮聲嚇壞的
dopey party, dopey本意是“呆頭呆腦的帜乞，愚笨的”司抱，這里與party搭配可以理解為無聊的，無趣的
be put on hold:暫停黎烈，中止
cut one's trip short and get home 數(shù)詞 days early這也是一個比較實用的表達习柠。表示縮短行程提早回家
dug up 有“開墾，采掘”的意思照棋。這里是“發(fā)現(xiàn)资溃，找出”
