1. I gave the alarm as soon as I saw the smoke.
   我一看见冒烟，就发出了警报。
2. The maths teacher was furious and gave me 50 lines.
   数学老师气坏了，罚我抄书50行。
3. Do you mean to tell me you gave 1500 for that pile of scrap metal!
   难道说你花了1500英镑买了那堆破铜烂铁！
4. The shopkeeper gave us short weight: we got 7.5 kilos instead of 10 kilos.
   店主给我们的分量不足: 应该10公斤我们只得到7.
5. She gave a talk on her visit to China.
   她就访华情况发表了非官方的讲话。
6. It is said that James Watt's observation of steam issuing from a kettle gave birth to the idea of the steam engine.
   据说，詹姆斯·瓦特对水壶蒸气的观察使他产生了发明蒸汽机的想法。
7. Jones said that his train had been delayed; the foreman gave him the benefit of the doubt and did not reduce his pay for being late.
   琼斯说他的火车误点了，领班在没有相反证据之前给予肯定的判断，并且没有因为迟到而减少他的薪金。
8. He gave utterance to his thoughts.
   他发表了自己的观点。

• give给

还价

A：Anything else, sir?
先生，还要别的东西吗？

gave的近义词

B：That's all for now. How much do I owe you?
目前这些就够了，我要付你多少钱？

A：That'll be fifty-five dollars and twenty cents.
一共55元2角。

B：Can't you make it a little cheaper?
你不能算便宜一点？

A：Oh, no sir. We alreadygave you a discount on each item.
哦，不行，先生。每一件东西我们都给你打过折扣了。

B：OK. I understand. Thank you.
好吧，我懂了，谢谢你。

The First Class-(第一堂课)

gave

A：Today I had my first English class.
今天我上了第一堂英语课。

B：How was it?
课上得怎样？

A：It was interesting.The teachergave us three ways to help ourselves learn the language. First, stop talking anything except English. Then learn many complete sentences by heart.Finally, have American friends tell us how they say things we have trouble with, and always imitate them.
很有意思。老师告诉我们有三种方法可帮助我们学习语言。首先，除英语外不要用其他语言谈话。其次。背下大量完整的句子。最后请美国朋友告诉我们，我们在口语中感到困难的那些句子，他们是怎样表达的，并且要一直模仿他们。

A Successful Story-(成功故事)

A：You look tired. *
你看上去很累。

B：Yeah, I’ve been working so much overtime lately.
是啊，我近来一直加班工作。

A：Really? How come?
真的吗？怎么回事？

B：My bossgave me a big project. I had to have it finished it by this morning. It was so difficult!
我的老板给了我一个大的项目，我必须在今天早上完成。真是够难的。

A：You shouldn’t work so hard.
你不要拼命工作。

gave的近义词

B：I know. But hard work pays off, you know.
我知道，但是你知道，辛苦工作总有回报的。

gave

A：What do you mean?
怎么讲？

B：Maybe now I’ll get that promotion I was hoping for.
可能目前我快得到提升了，这是我一直期待的。