write off损失掉, 排除
例句:It may not be a bad thing that they write off their marriage before it begins.
他们断绝了关系未结婚, 这可能并非坏事。
毁掉; 结束掉
例句:They wrote the car off.
他们将那辆汽车报废了。
2.The plan would cost fifty billion dollars, but he promised it would not add to the budget deficit over time.
over time随着时间的过去
例句:But this will improve over time.
但是这将随着时间改变。
3.These are set to end this December.
set to定下,定于
例句:Everything is set to go.
一切都已定下。
4.You can't have a strong economy if you're raising taxes on the very people you expect to invest in our economy to begin hiring people again."
very可用作形容词,有“真正的,正是……的,十足的”等意。例如:
①You are the very person I want to see. 你正是我要见的人。
②I will do it this very afternoon. 我就在今天下午办这件事。
③He is a very fool. 他是个十足的傻瓜。
5.But there is little that his newest proposals could do to help the economy before November.
that his newest proposals could do是定语从句,修饰的是little。to help the economy before November表示目的。