SOME COMMON COLLOCATIONS WITH DAILY ROUTINES
Personal stuffs
- Get dressed: mặc đồ
- Put on your make-up: trang điểm
- She never wears make-up.
- Stuck in your shirt
- Apply lipstick on your lips
- Take off lipstick cap/ put the cap back on
- Cut open the tube to take out/ get the last bit of toothpaste
- Take my eyes off you
- Fix your hair: chỉnh tóc lại
Housework
- Sweep the floor
- Mop the floor
- Sharpen the knife
- Unscrew/ screw the cap: mở nắp/ đóng nắp
- Turn it counterclockwise/ clockwise: xoay nó ngược/ cùng chiều kim đồng hồ
- Fold up the blanket (in half): gấp chăn lại (làm đôi)
- Take out your book/ put your book away: lấy sách ra/ cất sách vô
- Before putting it away, fold up it, save the space
- Your clothes are all over the place
- Hang them up: treo chúng lên
- Hand over your phone
- All my books are out of order
- Don’t throw it away, it might come in handy
- Come in handy (idiom): to be useful
- It is too hight, I cannot reach it
- My phone is frozen (đơ)
- Wring out the wet towel/ clothes: vắt khô chiếc khăn/ quần áo ướt
Cooking
- Crack an egg: đập trứng
- Tear up the chicken: xé thịt gà
- Smash the glove of garlic down, remove the peel, start mincing it
- Stuff pork into the tofu (pork-stuffed tofu)
- Squeeze the lime
- I am all out of beer
- I am hanging up the cutting board on the hook: treo cái thớt lên móc
- Reheat the leftover food: hâm nóng thức ăn thừa
Gardening
- Dig the trenches