Phrasal verbs
1. crop up – неожиданно возникать (Her name keeps cropping up in conversation).
2. dive in – начать делать что-то воодушевленно (When I start a new project, I like to dive
right in and see how it works.)
3. kick off with – начинать с какого-то действия (We like to kick off the summer with a
barbecue.)
4. knock off – прекращать работу (I don’t knock off until six.)
5. knuckle down – /ˈnʌkl/ - решительно браться за что-то (You’re going to have to really
knuckle down if you want to pass your final exams.)
6. lay off – увольнять, сокращать (Thirty more people were laid off last week.)
7. lie ahead – предстоит в будущем (You graduate today, and an exciting future lies ahead
of you.)
8. make up for something – возмещать ущерб (I hope this money will make up for the
inconvenience.)
9. press ahead with – продолжать делать что-то несмотря на трудности (The company
pressed ahead with plans to build the skyscraper.)
10. set out – начинать что-то делать чтобы добиться успеха (She set out with the aim of
becoming the youngest ever winner of the championship.)
11. be snowed under – быть заваленным чем-то (I’m snowed under with homework; I am
totally snowed under at school)
12. take on – брать на себя (I don’t want to take on too much work.)
13. tide over – поддерживать кого-либо в трудных обстоятельствах (I lent him some
cash to tide him over the weekend.)
14. while away – проводить время, коротать время (We played a few games to while
away the time.)
15. wind down – /waɪnd/ - отдыхать, постепенно сокращать нагрузку (They’re winding
down their operations abroad because they're losing money.)
16. cordon off – окружать, блокировать (They’ve cordoned off the whole area because of a
suspected bomb.)
17. creep up – подкрадываться к кому-либо (We crept up behind her and yelled “Boo!”)
18. fall behind – отставать (He was ill for six weeks and fell behind with his schoolwork.)
19. go astray – заблудиться, вводить в заблуждение (One of my bags went astray at the
airport. Many go astray on the way.)
20. head someone off – помешать кому-то куда-то пойти преградив путь (Police tried to
head off the bank robbers at the next exit.)
21. hold back – сдерживать слезы, эмоции (She couldn’t hold back the tears.)
22. move in – въезжать в новый дом, съехаться (We’re moving in next week. She’s just
moved in with her boyfriend.)
23. walk out – уходить откуда-либо (He was so disgusted by the film he walked out.)
24. move out – выезжать из дома, съезжать с квартиры (He moved out when he was only
eighteen.)
25. move over – отодвинуться, подвинуться (She moved over to let me pass.)
26. pull over – подъехать к обочине и остановиться (Just pull over here, and I’ll get out
and walk the rest of the way.)
27. slip away/out – незаметно уйти, ускользнуть (I’ll slip out of the room if I get bored.
We cannot let such a good opportunity slip away.)
28. step aside – отойти в сторону, уступить (Step aside, please - this lady needs a doctor.)
29. stop off – заезжать по пути (We stopped off in Paris for a couple of days before heading
south. I’ll stop off at the shops on my way home and get some wine.)
30. tip up – опрокинуть (She tipped up the lid of the box and looked inside.)
31. blurt out – /blɜːt/ - ляпнуть, выболтать (He blurted everything out about the baby,
though we'd agreed to keep it a secret for a while.)
32. catch on – завоевать популярность, понять спустя время (I wonder if the game will
ever catch on with young people? He invented a type of virtual reality helmet, but it never
caught on.)
33. come out – доступный для того чтобы увидеть или купить; становиться явным,
обычно когда секреты раскрываются (When the truth came out, there was public outrage.
The exam results come out in August.)
34. come out with – внезапно что-то сказать (He comes out with the strangest things! She
comes out with some good ideas though.)
35. dry up – иссякнуть, закончиться (The work dried up and he went out of business.)
36. get across – доносить до слушателя, четко излагать (This is the message that we want
to get across to the public.)
37. get around to – добираться до чего-либо, наконец сделать что-либо (I finally got
around to calling her yesterday.)
38. get through to – заставлять кого-либо понять что-либо, достучаться до кого-либо
(We can’t get through to them just how serious the problem is!)
39. let on – выдавать секрет (If he did know the truth, he didn’t let on.)
40. pass on – отдавать то, что было подарено другими (Could you pass it on to Laura
when you’ve finished reading it?)
41. put across – понятно излагать (It’s an interesting idea and I thought he put it across
well.)
42. put over – понятно излагать (Did you feel that you managed to put over your point of
view?)
43. set down – записать что-то (The rules of the club are set down in the members’
handbook.)
44. shout down – мешать кому-то говорить своим криком (She was shouted down when
she tried to speak on the issue of abortion.)
45. speak out – высказывать свою точку зрения, чтобы выступить против (He decided to
speak out against the bombing.)
46. talk over – обсуждать что-либо (I’d like to talk it over with my wife first.)
47. talk round – убедить кого-то сделать что-то или то, что ты хочешь (She’s not keen
on the idea but we think we can talk her round.)
48. chance upon – случайно наткнуться (Ten years after leaving school, we chanced upon
each other in Regent Street.)
49. come across – случайно наткнуться на что-то (He came across some old love letters.)
50. cool down – охладиться (After you’ve cooled down from a hard run, you should refuel
as soon as you can.)
51. cut back (on) – сократить, экономить (We are trying to cut back on travel costs.)
52. die out – вымирать (Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.)
53. dig up – выкапывать (Could you dig up a few potatoes for dinner?)
54. dry up – пересыхать, иссякнуть (The work dried up and he went out of business.)
55. get through – дозвониться (I called you earlier, but I couldn’t get through.)
56. heat up – нагревать, подогревать (I’ll just heat up some soup.)
57. kill off – губить, разрушать (Lack of funding is killing off local theatres.)
58. put down to – списать на, думать что случилось по какой-то причине (This cannot
be put down to luck.)
59. slip up – сделать ошибку (These figures don’t make sense - have we slipped up
somewhere?)
60. spring up – неожиданно появиться (Thousands of new businesses have sprung up in
the past couple of years.)
61. store up trouble – делать что-то, что может создать проблемы в будущем (If you
don’t deal with the problem now, you’ll be storing up trouble for yourself in the future.)
62. throw up – стошнить (He threw up his breakfast all over the back seat of the car.)
63. add up to – прибавляться (The numbers in each row add up to 25.)
64. break down – разделять на части (A good way to deal with a big problem is to break it
down to a series of smaller ones.)
65. build up – укрепить, увеличить (Manage your finances and build up your own
savings.)
66. buy off – подкупить кого-то (They tried to buy the guard at the bank off but he told the
police and the gang was arrested.)
67. buy out – выкупить (The bank announced that it wanted to buy out the publicly owned
shares of its stock.)
68. buy up – скупить (He bought up all the land in the surrounding area.)
69. carry over – перенести на другое время (The performance has had to be carried over to
next week because the repairs to the theatre aren’t finished yet.)
70. club together – скидываться на что-то (If we club together, we’ll be able to get her the
complete dinner set.)
71. drum up – получить поддержку (He was trying to drum up some enthusiasm for the
project.)
72. mount up – накапливаться (My homework is really mounting up this week.)
73. pay back – возвращать долг (Only borrow money if you’re sure you can pay it back.)
74. pay out – потратить много денег (I’ve just paid out $500 on getting the car fixed.)
75. size up – подумать над чем-то и прийти к мнению (After sizing up the opposition,
Abe suggested a strategy.)
76. take away – вычитать (Take 3 away from 20.)
77. weigh down – утяжелить, отягощать кого-то (I thought she looked somehow older,
weighed down by all her new responsibilities.)
78. board up – заколотить окно или дверь (All the windows were either broken or boarded
up.)
79. close up – закрывать (As the storm approached, everyone began closing up their
businesses.)
80. come out – отстирываться (Will this red wine stain come out?)
81. cut out – вырезать (I cut this article out of a magazine for you.)
82. fix up something – починить, отремонтировать что-то (I’m going to fix up the house
before my mother-in-law arrives.)
83. pull down – сносить (The old warehouse has been pulled down.)
84. pile up – накапливаться (My work’s really starting to pile up.)
85. prop up – подкладывать что-либо для устойчивости (We had to prop up the bed with
some bricks.)
86. put in – устанавливать (They’re coming to put the new kitchen in next week.)
87. put together – собирать из частей (It took several hours to put the puzzle together.)
88. put up – приютить (If you need somewhere to stay, we can put you up for the night.)
89. set up – установить, настроить (Will you be able to set up my PC?)
90. spread out – рассредоточиться (Let’s spread out more and search the whole field.)
91. take down – записывать (He took down my address and phone number and said he’d
call me.)
92. water down – смягчить «некоторые выражения» (Some of the more forthright sections
were watered down by the editors.)
93. wear down – сломить, вымотать (They were worn down by the stress of feeding five
children.)
94. black out – потерять сознание (I blacked out right after the accident.)
95. come out in – быть покрытым пятнами на теле (This heat has made me come out in an
itchy red rash.)
96. come round – приходить в сознание (She hasn’t come round from the anaesthetic yet.)
97. cotton on – начинать понимать что-то (I’d only just cottoned on to the fact that they
were having a relationship.)
98. crease up /kriːs/ – много смеяться или рассмешить кого-то (The look on his face just
creased me up.)
99. follow up – следить за (The study followed up over 200 heart patients.)
100. shrivel up – высыхать (The leaves had shrivelled up in the summer heat.)