托福听力易混淆词组整理20组
词汇词组也是托福听力备考的基本内容，对于考试中经常出现的一些易混淆词组内容，大家在复习的过程中，需要单独抽出一部分的时间，来备考这部分的内容。下面我们为大家整理了20组词组，供大家参考。
1.goof off
听力原句：Student: I went off to the stack and found some really good material for my part, but when I got back to our table, they were just goofing off and talking. So I went and got materials for their sections as well.
语境释义：游手好闲，混日子
2.go down the drain
听力原句：Student: I know, but I didn’t want to risk the project going down the drain.
语境释义：前功尽弃，付诸东流
3.start from scratch
听力原句：Student: But we’ve got all the sources and it’s due next week. We don’t have time to start from scratch.
语境释义：从头开始
4.come down to
听力原句：It’s been shaped by constraints over vast stretches of time, all of which comes down to the fact that the best foraging strategy for beavers isn’t the one that yields the most food or wood.
语境释义：归结为
5.open spot
听力原句：I am afraid we don’t have any openings at lunch time. A lot of students want to work then, so it is really rare for us to have an open spot at that time of day.
语境释义：职位空缺
6.low key
听力原句：Pro: Oh, that's very thoughtful of you, Eric, but it will be low key, nothing flashy. That's not her style.
语境释义：低调的，不张扬的
7.common denominator
听力原句：There are variations on this model of course, but the common denominators are always an idea of creating a shopping space that will get people to shop in the city without needing their cars.
语境释义：共同点，共性注意：denominator本意为“分母”
8.tongue in cheek
听力原句：But if you took away all the DNA that codes for genes, you still have maybe 70% of the DNA left over. That’s the so-called JUNK DNA. Though the word junk is used sort of tongue in cheek.
语境释义：半开玩笑地
9.pull them from thin air
听力原句：To begin, how do we create fictional characters? We don’t just pull them from thin air, do we? I mean we don’t create them out of nothing.
语境释义：凭空捏造
10.touch base
听力原句：Advisor: Hi, Steven I schedule this appointment, cause it has been a while since we touched base.
语境释义：联系，进行接触
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