1. How were tryouts? Did you make the team?
选拔考试怎么样了？你入选球队了吗？
◆ (Collins) also try-out
★ If you give something a tryout, you try it or test it to see how useful it is.
测试或检验某物是否有用（试行、试用、试验）
The recycling scheme gets its first try-out in rural parts of the county.
在该县的农村地区首次试行此回收计划。
★ If you are given a tryout for a sports team or an acting role, you compete or you perform a test in an attempt to be chosen.
参加某个运动队或某个表演角色的选拔，以便能够入选。（选拔赛、选拔考试）
...tryouts for the U.S. junior national athletics team.
入选美国国家少年体育队的选拔赛
◆ (Collins)
◆ If someone makes a particular team or makes a particular high position, they do so well that they are put in that team or get that position.
Make 团队或某个职位，因表现好而入选某个团队或得到某个职位
★ The athletes are just happy to make the British team.
运动员们为能进入英国队而高兴。
★ He knew he was never going to make director.
他知道自己永远无法晋升到主任的位置。
2. I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us.
我想和你重新开始。我们应该忘掉过去。
◆ (Longman) to start doing something again from the beginning, especially because you want to do it better
从头开始做某件事情，尤其是因为你想把它做得更好。
★ If you make a mistake, just erase it and start over.
如果你犯了一个错误，那就擦掉，然后重新开始。
★ It's just not enough money to start life over.
这些钱根本不够用来开始全新的生活。
◆ (Longman) put something behind somebody
◆ to try to forget about an unpleasant event or experience and think about the future
试图忘记不愉快的事件或经历，面向未来
★ We are trying to heal the divisions, put the past behind us.
我们正在努力弥合分歧，忘掉过去。
3. She looked so perky in her little short shorts.
她穿紧身短裤的样子真是活力四射。
◆ (Collins)
◆ If someone is perky, they are cheerful and lively.
形容某人很开朗、很活泼
★ He wasn't quite as perky as normal.
他不像平时那样活泼。
★ She had a perky, independent spirit.
她个性开朗、独立。
4. Simmer down, I didn’t even go near her.
冷静，我都没靠近她。
◆ (Longman) simmer
◆ to boil gently, or to cook something slowly by boiling it gently
慢煮或用文火炖、煨
★ Bring the soup to the boil and allow it to simmer gently for about half an hour.
将汤烧开，然后慢慢地炖上半小时左右。
◆ If you are simmering with anger, or if anger is simmering in you, you feel very angry but do not show your feelings.
你感到十分生气，但却未表现出来。
★ He was left simmering with rage.
他怒火中烧。
◆ simmer down
◆ to become calm again after you have been very angry
生气之后，重新平静下来。
★ We decided she needed some time to simmer down.
我们决定她需要一些时间冷静一下。
