第一、重点短语：

1. help somebody out：帮助......解决苦难，帮助......摆脱困将

例句：All these pianos came to more money than I had, and my mother borrowed much money to help me out.

我的钱不够买所有这些礼物，我母亲只好借了我一些钱。

2. be surrounded with：为......环绕着，为......簇拥着

例句：The young violinist was surrounded with people.

不久，年轻的小提琴手周围聚集了人。

She has always been surrounded with fashionable friends.

她周围总有许多爱赶时髦的朋友。

The school was surrounded with a fence.

学校四周围着篱笆。

This is a house surrounded with trees and flowers.

这是花草树木环绕周围的房子。

We are surrounded with dangers.

我们危机四伏。

3. be capable of：有......可能的

例句：It is capable of arousing interest or curiosity.

这个有可能引起兴趣或好奇心的。

Is the kid capable of understanding this?

这个孩子能理解这事吗？

4. in the years of：在......的岁月里

例句：My parents was bore and grown up in the years of unrest.

我的父母出生于动乱的年代，也在这样的年代里成长。

Unfortunately she died in the years of war at the age of only thirty-one.

可惜的是她31岁时便在战乱的岁月里离开人世。

第二、其他短语

1. a noisy extrovert：健谈的爱社交的人

2. matter a lot：非常重要

3. share a past：以前就认识，旧识

4. share the same tutors：师出同门

5. share the same childhood traumas：有着同样不幸的童年

6. orphans of the scaffold：绞刑架下的孤儿

7. that sort of：那种