8.make a contribution to意为“贡献给”、“捐赠”,其中to是介词,后接名词、代词或动名词。如:
Everyone is making a contribution to building a richer and stronger country.大家都在为建设一个更加富强的国家而做贡献。
The Chinese people have made GREat contribution to world peace.中国人民对世界和平作出了巨大贡献。
9.offer在此是动词,意为“拿出、提供、出价”,常用于以下结构:
1)offer sth.提供某物/某事
2)offer sth.to /for sb.为某人提供某事物
3)offer to do sth.主动提出做某事
4)offer sb.sth.for money卖东西给某人要多少钱
5)offer sb.for sth.出钱买东西。如:
She offered me a cup of tea.她给我一杯茶。
The company offered for me a job.这家公司给了我一份工作。
They offered to help us.他们主动帮助我们。
We offered him the house for 20,000yuan.我们卖给他的房子要两万元。
10.practise后接名词或动词-ing形式作宾语,而不用动词不定式作宾语,即practise(doing)sth.,意为“练习(做)某事”,但不能说 practise to do sth.。如:
She practises the piano two hours every day.她每天练习两个小时的钢琴。
You must practise speaking English more.你必须多练习讲英语。
11.decide是及物动词,意为“决定”、“下决心”,其常见结构有以下几种:
1)后接名词或代词。如:
I can't decide the date of the meeting.我决定不了这次会议的日期。
2)后接动词不定式。如:
We decided to go there by bus.我们决定乘公共汽车去那儿。
3)后接“连接代(副)词+动词不定式”。如:
I can't decide how to say it at the meeting.我决定不了在会议上如何把这件事说出来。
4)后接从句。如:
He has decided that he will say no.他决定要说不。
Let's first decide what we should do next.我们先决定下一步干什么。