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12. to cover: to travel a particular distance eg We covered 1500 miles in just one month, on foot. They inched their way toward the summit. And it took them about two hours just to cover a few feet. 13. as well as: in addition to sth. else eg He is a Spanish major. But he studies English as well as Spanish. Sometimes we have classes in the afternoons as well as in the mornings. 14. suffer to suffer for a certain cause to suffer from a certain disease to suffer a defeat/a damage/a loss/an injury/humiliation, etc. 15. Come to terms with come to terms with sth.: start or learn to accept or deal with a difficult situation e. g. She’s never really ~ her son’s death. It’s very hard coming to terms with the fact that he will never have children. 16. to carry on: to continue doing sth. eg Don’t let me disturb you. Carry on, please! It was late, but nobody rose to leave. We just carried in working. 17. Touch and go be ~: be very uncertain whether sth. will happen or not; be risky e. g. It was a very dangerous operation. It was touch-and-go several times. It was ~ whether the work would be finished in time. 18. Just around the corner: just around / round the corner: very near, soon to happen e. g. We have been trying to develop the new drug for years, and now that success is ~, the work must not be stopped. With the end of the year ~, major celebrations are being planned. Final victory is just around the corner. 优秀精品课件文档资料 Lesson 9 Against all odds Introduction to the Text This text is adapted from the biography of Stephen Hawking—Stephen Hawking: A life in Science, 2nd edition, written by Michael White and John Gribbin, published in 1998. Stephen Hawking --“the scientist in the wheelchair” Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. . Professor Stephen W Hawking, Even as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and ti