(1) The planet Jupiter may have no solid surface at all.
(2) The boat bumped against a solid object.
(3) She had refused all solid food.

(1) Her voice awoke the sleeping child.
(2) His speech is bound to awake old fears and hostilities.
(3) It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.

(1) The car braked and swerved.
(2) The truck braked to a halt .
(3) You don't need to brake at every bend.

(1) He had his portrait painted in uniform.
(2) a full-length portrait
(3) a portrait painter

(1) Give me five!
(2) We moved to America when I was five (= five years old) .
(3) Shall we meet at five (= at five o'clock) , then?

(1) In his plays he takes simple traditional tales and elaborates them.
(2) [不可数名词, 可数名词]The importance of the plan needs no further elaboration.
(3) She went on to elaborate her argument.

(1) The negro minstrel is touring the country.
(2) It's impolite to call the black people negro.
(3) " Yassah, " assented the negro, nodding his head.

(1) thirdly, I would like to say that…
(2) First of all, there are not many of them, and secondly, they have little money and, thirdly, they have few big businesses.
(3) thirdly, why does the part cast an analyst to always do not value Alibaba?

(1) civil/military aviation
(2) the aviation business/industry
(3) aviation benzine is used at piston aviation engine, use quantity is less.

(1) The game has already been postponed three times.
(2) We'll have to postpone the meeting until next week.
(3) It was an unpopular decision to postpone building the new hospital.

(1) At least they died happy.
(2) He died a poor man.
(3) The old customs are dying.

(1) Fax machines were a wonderful invention at the time.
(2) Such changes have not been seen since the invention of the printing press.
(3) This story is apparently a complete invention.

(1) Women tend to live longer than men.
(2) When I'm tired, I tend to make mistakes.
(3) It tends to get very cold here in the winter.

(1) logs for the fire
(2) The captain keeps a log.
(3) The police log all phone calls.

(1) pop/dance/classical/church music
(2) to listen to music
(3) She could hear music playing somewhere.

(1) a minor road
(2) minor injuries
(3) to undergo minor surgery

(1) the geometry of a spider's web
(2) ...the very ordered way in which mathematics and geometry describe nature.
(3) They have tinkered with the geometry of the car's nose.

(1) We sat baking in the sun.
(2) baked apples
(3) I'm baking a birthday cake for Alex.

(1) By two and a half he knew the alphabet.
(2) The modern Russian alphabet has 31 letters...
(3) Y is the penultimate letter of the alphabet.

(1) ‘Was he very angry? ’ ‘indeed he was. ’
(2) ‘Do you agree? ’ ‘indeed I do/Yes, indeed. ’
(3) ‘You said you'd help? ’ ‘I did indeed─yes. ’

(1) Somebody has to think for the child and put him first.
(2) first off, huge apologies for last month's confusing report.
(3) You don't know the first thing about farming.

(1) a photo/recording/training, etc. session
(2) The course is made up of 12 two-hour sessions.
(3) a session of the UN General Assembly

(1) a wedding present
(2) a wedding ceremony/reception
(3) Have you been invited to their wedding?

(1) This piece of equipment needs a thirty - ampere fuse.
(2) The units in which we show voltage and current are volt and ampere respectively.
(3) Isabel, with her eyes bent, fingered the pages of M ? ampere.

(1) dragon born dragon, chellocken born chellocken, mouse son can make hole!
(2) To the pounding beat of the drums and cymbals, the dragon began to dance.
(3) Nini Semiothisa clothing colors with green, he is a red Little dragon Flying Swallow.

(1) Is your back still painful?
(2) a painful death
(3) My ankle is still too painful to walk on.

(1) Take whatever action is needed.
(2) Do whatever you like.
(3) whatever decision he made I would support it.

(1) surgical/optical/precision, etc. instruments
(2) instruments of torture
(3) Is he learning an instrument?

(1) The word ‘politics ’ is derived from a Greek word meaning ‘city ’.
(2) He derived great pleasure from painting.
(3) The new drug is derived from fish oil.

(1) The opposition claimed the report was a whitewash.
(2) a 7–0 whitewash
(3) a whitewash victory

(1) a china/glass ornament
(2) The clock is simply for ornament; it doesn't work any more.
(3) The building is an ornament to the city.

(1) I can recommend the chef's dish of the day .
(2) a soap dish
(3) What a dish!

(1) improvements to the bus service
(2) This is a great improvement on your previous work.
(3) a slight/steady improvement

(1) If the warranty is limited, the terms may entitle you to a replacement or refund.
(2) Golden parachutes entitle them to a full year's salary if they get booted out of the company.
(3) How does one entitle the queen when speaking directly to her?

(1) ...a shooting range where it's OK to use weapons...
(2) Is it okay if I come by myself?...
(3) Check that the baby's okay...

(1) a work of popular fiction
(2) historical/romantic fiction
(3) For years he managed to keep up the fiction that he was not married.

(1) in the top/middle/bottom drawer of the desk
(2) He opened a drawer in his writing-table.
(3) You can be assured the matter will be closely investigated and the necessary remedial actions taken.

(1) The immediate cause of death is unknown.
(2) He is my immediate superior (= the person directly above me) in the company.
(3) The funeral was attended by her immediate family (= her parents, children, brothers and sisters) only.

(1) I'm like, ‘hello! Did you even listen? ’
(2) hello? You didn't really mean that, did you?
(3) hello, hello, what's going on here?

(1) She got on her bike and rode off.
(2) I usually go to work by bike .
(3) My dad bikes to work every day.