5) "I'm not sure" she responded.

"我不肯定。"她答道。

6) He responded to the boss's rude words by being late for work on purpose

他对老板粗鲁的话的反应是故意上班迟到。

7) He failed to respond to the medicine.

他服了这药未见起色。

【归纳用法】

respond用作不及物动词，意思为"回答；作出反应；响应；有起色"，后接宾语时，用介词 to。 结构为：

respond to sth 对......作出回答

respond to sth with sth 以......对......作出回答

respond可用于直接引语。

respond by doing sth 通过做......作出回答

response为名词形式。

3. relief

In relief Daisy burst into laughter.

戴西如释重负，突然笑了起来。

In relief he settled himself into the sofa.

他如释重负, 倒在沙发上。

1) We all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard that they were safe.

当我们听说他们平安无事时，都如释重负地松了口气。。

2) The drug gives some relief from pain.

这种药可以减轻一些痛苦

3) Relief was quickly sent to the sufferers from the great fire.

救济品很快被送到遭受火灾的灾民手中。

4) His jokes provided some comic relief in what was really a dull speech.

他说的笑话给极沉闷的讲话增加几分轻松气氛.

5)To my great relief/Much to my relief, I wasn't late.

我最庆幸的是没有迟到。

6) It was a great relief to find that my family was all safe.