Our school aims tobring out[=develop] the talents in each of our students.这里的bring out 相当于培养,激发。
The debate brought out [=highlighted] the differences between the two candidates.这里的bring out相当于公开,显而易见。
还有一个固定搭配bring out the best/worst in someone(=make them show their best/worst qualities):
There’s something about her that brings out the worst in me.她身上有种东西让我暴露了自己最差劲的一面。(大意是如此,我觉得这话看似简单,语境不同,语气、解释还有很多种)
2.know better than
Dany listened to the talk in the streets, and she heard these things, but she knew better than to question her brother when he wove his webs of dream.
引自 Danerys
She remembered Ser Willem dimly, a great grey bear of a man, half-blind, roaring and bellowing orders from his sickbed.
引自 Danerys
a grey bear of a man:这是“名词A+of+名词B”结构一种比较特殊的用法。
还分两种情况:当名词B前面带有不定冠词a/an时候,A修饰B,也就是书上这种,像大灰熊一样的男人。
如果名词B前面有所有格,则要反过来,B修饰A:
I wish I could be a man of your experience.我希望能成为一个像你那样经验丰富的人。
另外这个结构还有一种用法也很有意思。就是A为单数,B为A的复数的时候,一般可以翻译成‘’最‘’:
比如说我们总说张学友是歌神:
Jacky Cheung is a singer of singers.
(singer of singers:最优秀的歌手,歌神,歌王)
4.demon
There was more like that, so much more, what a handsome man the khal was, so tall and fierce, fearless in battle, the best rider ever to mount a horse, a demon archer.引自 Danerys