鲁达
Size up
打量，估计，目测大小
A business plan makes you evaluate the market for your product or service and size up the competition.
商业计划书会促使你评估自己的产品或服务的市场，并估计竞争的规模。
It isn't easy to size up the potential damage.
对潜在的损失进行评估并不容易。
Hit it off
合得来，志趣相投
If you think we'll hit it off, then that's good enough for me.
如果你认为我们合得来的话，我会很开心。
Michael and Lisa hit it off on their very first date, at a dinner party of a mutual friend.
迈克和丽萨在第一次约会时就十分合拍，在一个晚餐会上成为了朋友。
To say the least
退一步说；至少可以这样说；就最小限度而言
Picking the right six numbers in a lotto is, to say the least, statistically improbable.
全部选中乐透的六个正确号码 —— 退一步说 —— 在统计学上是不可能的。
My parents were never physically abused in all the time they were locked up, but it was a trying time, to say the least.
我的父母在监禁的时间里从来没有受过身体上的折磨，但是至少可以说，那是一段十分艰难的时刻。
We are not working out!
我们合不来
We forced the taxpayer to assume the losses, and now we are supposed to be shocked that it is not working out.
我们强迫纳税人去填补他们的损失，而现在当这个方法不见成效时，我们却不知所措了。
The fact is, many things are not working out as we hoped.
事实是，很多事情不像我们所希望的那样解决了。
Pick up a few tips
汲取一些意见，一些技巧
You can learn from their successes -- and mistakes -- as well as pick up a few tips and tricks along the way.
你可以从他们的成功或者错误中吸取经验教训--同时再得到一些小贴士和技巧。
You can often pick up useful tips if you keep your ears open.
如果你留心细听，常常能获得一些有用的消息。
Main cause
主要原因
The main cause of food insecurity in Africa is war and conflict.
造成非洲食品不安全的主演原因是战争与冲突。
After polishing off her enormous main course, she still had room for dessert and ate a "salad" of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies.
在吃完庞大的主菜后，依然有胃口吃甜点，她又吃了一份棉花糖“沙拉”、奶油乾酪、鲜奶油和曲奇饼乾。
Obsessed with
非常喜欢，执着
I really dont know why you are so obsessed with all my secrets.
我真的不明白为什么你着迷于我的所有秘密。
Sometimes we're so obsessed with, and fearful of, the bad, we miss out on the considerable good in our world.
有些时候，我们是如此地感到困扰，惧怕一切负面的事情，以至于失去了世界上相当多的美好的事物。
Quite fancy something
非常想，非常喜欢
I quite fancy journalism, being a foreign correspondent and traveling a lot.
我颇喜欢新闻业，做个国外通讯，可以到处游历。
He seems to have taken quite a fancy to his English teacher; he's always hanging around her.
他似乎很喜欢他的英语老师，总是围着她转。
From beginning to end
自始至终，从头到尾
Now I want to know about this thing from beginning to end.
我现在想源源本本地了解此事。
For newspapers, magazines, and some non-fiction books,
people won't read the text from beginning to end.
对于报纸和杂志和一些非小说类书籍来说，人们通常不会从头到底的完整阅读。
Wrap it up
结束/包起来
It will be the perfect time to wrap it up, for you should get an enthusiastic response from others.
现在正是结束的最佳时刻，因为你应该会得到别人热情的回应。
This is the present for my wife. Would you wrap it up in bright-colored paper?
这是给我妻子的礼物。麻烦你用鲜艳的纸包起来好吗？
The least I can do
尽我所能
Don't mention it. It's the least I can do for a friend. By the way, you can do me a favor in return.
不客气，这是我为朋友起码可以做到的，顺便一提，你能帮我个忙作为回报吗？
Let me do it. It's the least I can do.
让我做吧，这是我所能做的最起码的事。