训练英语口语：一片空白 Blank 最常用

　　1. I blanked out your question. What did you say?(blank out: to forget something, perhaps on purpose; to blot something out of memory)

　　我忘记你的问题了，你刚才问了什么来着?(训练英语口语注意blank out：忘了某事)

　　2. The new manager has been given no detailed instructions about how to train the staff. He just has a blank check. (blank check: freedom to act as one wishes or thinks necessary)

　　不人恳求也来的经理具体该如何培训员工，他能够自在发挥。(blank check：按本人主张行事的自由)

　　3. We looked in the files for an hour, but we drew a blank. (draw a blank: to get no response; to find nothing)

　　咱们在那些文件里搜查了一个小时，一无所获。(draw a blank：毫无回应;一无所获的训练英语口语知识点)

　　4. Bill: There was a big fight at their house last night, then the neighbors called the police.

　　Mary: Then what happened?

　　Bill: Fill in the blanks. (fill in the blank: you can figure out the rest)

　　比利：昨晚他们在家里打起来了，而后街坊报了警。

　　玛丽：而后怎么样了?

　　比利：还能怎么样!猜都能猜到。(fill in the blank：你可能猜到剩下的故事)

　　5. After I told her to stop smoking, she just gave me a blank look and kept puffing.(give someone a blank look: to look back at someone with a neutral look on one's face)

　　我告诉她别抽烟了，她面无表情地看了我一眼，连续“腾云驾雾”。(训练英语口语知识点讲解give someone a blank look：漠然地看着某人)

　　6. He knew all his lines in rehearsal, but his mind went blank when he went before an audience. (one's mind went blank: someone's mind has experienced total forgetfulness.)

　　排练的时候，他对自己的台词滚瓜烂熟,。然而站在台上，看着台下的观众，他大脑一片空缺。(one's mind went blank：脑筋一片空白)