2008年12月5日 星期五

do your level best,grip (INTEREST)

Mr Scott was a new sort of weatherman, as cheerily populist as Stan, but more informative. He also did his level best to make the weather forecast gripping.


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do your level best
to try as hard as you can:
Tickets are hard to come by but I'll do my level best to get you one.

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grip (INTEREST) Show phonetics
verb [T] -pp-
to keep someone's attention completely:
This trial has gripped the whole nation.
I was gripped throughout the entire two hours of the film.

gripping Show phonetics
adjective
describes something that is so interesting or exciting that it holds your attention completely:
I found the book so gripping that I couldn't put it down.

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