toy with
释义：动词词组，意思是“玩弄，摆弄，不很认真地对待”，形容随便想想，却不会付诸行动。
例句：
What I love is that you toy with optical illusion.
We are not going to toy with our religion[……]
作者： 陈 欣
AADPS创始人
nurse
释义：作动词时意思是“照料，护理”，常在留学文书里描述自己照料一个人，动物或植物。
例句：
Clopping loudly, they nurse themselves down the rocks.
So throughout that first year, nurse the[……]
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
—John F. Kennedy[……]
all-nighter
释义： 动词，表“通宵的活动，熬夜，开夜车”，pull an all-nighter表示通宵熬夜（一般是考试前），在留学文书中可以用来描述为活动或奖项努力的过程，使故事更加生动。
例句：
Last night the ceramicists pulled an all-n[……]
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
—Randall Jarrell[……]
留学党的阅读指南（续）
专业书籍
计算机
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
他曾经错误的认为个人电脑并不需要超过640Kb的内存，但他希望把个人电脑带入千家万户的愿景如今已经基本实现。二十年前，比尔·盖茨的《未来之路》预言了信息高速公路给人类社会带来的种种变化。电子商务、在线教育、增强现实(augm[……]
hold onto/on to
释义：本意是继续“保有”自己的所有物，在留学文书里也常常用来引申到地位或立场等抽象事物。
例句：
It is a fact that businesses across this country are holding on to about a trillion[……]
suffice (it) to say
释义：“只要说……就够了”，可以在留学文书中用于引出简短有力的个人判断。既可以作为插入语，也可以后接that从句。
例句：
Suffice it to say, they are not democracies.
Suffice it to say tha[……]