2007年2月8日 星期四

Off the top of my head

“Do you know how many films Tom Cruise has starred in?”
“Off the top of my head, no. Why do you want to know?”
“It’s for my homework.”
“I’m sure you could get it off the Web. Stick his name in a search engine. You’re bound to turn something up pretty quickly.”
“Can I use the computer then?”
“Sure, go ahead.”

Useful words & expressions:

star – have the main role in a film.

off the top of my head – provide a piece of information from memory or by guessing.

get it off the Web – find the information on the World Wide Web.

stick – here this just means put.

search engine – a program that searches the Web for information based on words entered by a user.

bound to – very likely.

turn something up – find.

go ahead – do it.

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