Lesson 86 Out of control失控过去完成时 过去完成进行时

Out of control

• We are out of bread.
• He has been out of work for two months.
• The plane got out of control and crashed in the mountains.

As the man tried to swing the speedboat round, the steering wheel came away in his hands.

swing sth. round ^{调转sth.方向}

• swing the speedboat round ^{把快艇调转方向}
• Daddy, swing me round.^{爸爸，把我荡个圈。}
• Can you swing your arms around and round?^{你可会摆动手臂绕成圆圈吗？}

come away ^{脱落，离开，脱离，脱开}

• When I tried to lift the suitcase, the handle came away.

He waved desperately to his companion, who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes.

desperately ^{adv. 绝望地，拼命地，不顾一切地；非常，极其}

• She was desperately looking for an out.^{她在拼命找一条脱身之计。}
• I desperately fought the urge to giggle.^{我拼命地忍着不笑。}

Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening when they were thrown violently into the sea.

The speedboat had struck a buoy, but it continued to move very quickly across the water.

Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore when they noticed with dismay that the speedboat was moving in a circle.

It now came straight towards them at tremendous speed.

After it had passed, they swam on as quickly as they could because they knew that the boat would soon return.

叙事过程^（暗线）

On this occasion, however, it had slowed down considerably.

The petrol had nearly all been used up.

use up ^{耗尽，用光，用完}

• They have just bought a house and a car.     They must have used up all their money.
• They have just bought a house and a car, so they must have used up all their money.

up ^{表示“彻底地，完全地”}

• The child soon ate up the cake. ^{可与其他一些动词连用（ate up）}
• She burned up all his letters. ^{烧起来；烧掉；发怒(burned up)}
• Can you read up the book in two hours? ^{通过阅读学习(read up)}

Before long, the noise dropped completely and the boat began to drift gently across the water.

drop ^{vi. 减少，变弱，消失}

• When he saw that Mary was annoyed, his voice dropped.
• We had to stay at home before the wind had dropped.

Enough & Fairly

• Too & Enough
• plenty & enough  & a lot of 
• too & very & enough 
• enough +n. / n. + enough & enough to do sth.