●elusive (a.) 難以捉摸、記憶、弄懂的
The elusive word is on the tip of my tongue, let me ransack the dictionary for it.
那個難以記住的字就在我唇邊，就是說不出來，讓我在字典找找看。

●dressing-down (n.) 痛罵一頓
It's not a good start to the first school day at all. I barely missed the bus by seconds and had to wait a long time for the next one. When I finally boarded on another bus, I hadn't gone more than a hundred meters before it broke down! When I got back to the school, I was given a good dressing-down by my teacher!
開學新一天卻沒有好開始：我只差數秒就可趕上公車，等了很久下一班車才到。終於上車了，還沒走上一百公尺車就拋錨！回到學校後，被老師臭罵了一頓！

●drift (n.) 大意、主旨
The English teacher provides her students with copious notes to make sure that they can catch the drift of her lessons.
英文老師為學生提供豐富的講義，確保他們能掌握她的教學要旨。

●haunt (n.) 經常出入之處
I revisited, eleven years after graduation, the haunts of my schooldays.
畢業十一年了，我再次重遊昔日學生時代曾踏足的地方。

●grind for 刻苦用功
The candidates bury in their books and grind for the public exam.
應試的學生埋首書本，為了公家考試而用功苦讀。

●keep sb in 留下來
The headmaster kept the intractable student in after school.
校長要那棘手學生放學後留下來。

●put sb off sth 使某人對某事喪失興趣
The kids are put off learning by all the quizs. Some even start to bunk off school.
因測驗不斷，孩子對學習失去興趣，有些更逃學起來。
"bunk off" phr. v. 即成語"play truant"（逃學）也。

●sail through 輕而易舉地通過考試
I couldn't sail through the test yesterday as I wasn't able to hit on the answer of the last question that baffled me.
昨天的測驗我並非一帆風順：最後一題把我難倒，怎樣也想不出答案來。