时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场社交


英语课


SCENE
A  吉娜与戴夫在他们的办公室隔间说话 


【我在考虑跳槽】


 


Zina:  Dave, there's something I want to talk to you about.


吉娜:         戴夫,我要跟你谈一件事。


 


Dave:  Zina, why are you 1) whispering?


戴夫:         吉娜,你干嘛那么小声?


 


Zina:  I've been talking to WebTracker. I'm thinking of jumping ship.


吉娜:         我一直跟"网路搜寻家"有联络。我在考虑跳槽。


 


Dave:  What? Are you serious? You'd 2) defect to our 3) archrival!?


戴夫:         什么?你是认真的吗?你要向敌人投诚!?


 


Zina:  Keep your voice down. We'll talk more later. Right now I need to see Vince.


吉娜:         小声点。我们晚点再详谈。我现在得要去找文斯。


 


Dave:  We definitely have to talk, Zina. And watch your back. Elvin is still mad about his nose.


戴夫:         我们一定得聊聊,吉娜。多留点神。艾文还在气他鼻子的那档事。


 


Zina:          OK, but don't tell anyone what I said.


吉娜:  好,不过别把我说的话告诉别人。


 


 


 


语言详解


 


A: (Loudly) Why are you whispering?


  (大喊)你干嘛那么小声啊?


 


B: We're in a library, you dork.


   我们在图书馆里,蠢蛋。


 


Are you serious? 你是认真的吗?】


 


serious有两个主要意义,其一是严肃的、认真的,另一是严重的、重大的。与连用时通常是第一种解释,与疾病、局势、问题连用则属第二种解释,例如:


 


We have to be serious about our future.


我们要认真的面对未来。


The situation is really serious.


局势真的很严重。


 


A: I heard John was hospitalized.


     我听说约翰住进医院。


B: Are you serious?


     你是说真的吗?


A: Yes. He suffered a serious injury in an accident.


     真的。他在意外事件中受到严重伤害。


 


1) whisper  (v.) 低语,呢喃


2) defect  (v.) 背弃(同盟,祖国)to的后面接名词,指所投向的新对象


3) archrival (n.) 死敌,最大的敌人 arch 这个字首 (prefix) 是指首要的,主要的 



学英语单词
acoustic holography by mechanical scanning
adlibbing
aif
all-hydraulic press
alleluia(h),alleluya
antiseptically
awry l.
black bags
broadcasting station
bromizating agent
bromoperoxidase
bubble pulse
bull-nose
Callicarpa arborea
cathode cylinder
centralized intelligence
chileya
cleavage method
climatic protection
come loose
continuous reading indicator
contrapugnant
cushion distortion
cyclops
dermaloptical vision
dike type seal
disk jointer
disqualify from
draw-bar plate brace
dry wear resistance
dust-control system
efferent nerves
eidouranion
electoral register
Encelad
Enewetak
fault-breccia
Fitzwilliam I.
flap nozzle
fossula of fenestra vestibuli
fryse
full-cantilever wing
furniture of steel and wood
gear spader
Gravenhage
gyratory crusher
hardware simulator
hernmarck
high and low voltage alarm
hippest
hot water heaters
intermediate-mass
Iranian Oil Participants Ltd
Listvyagi
maxillary lingual arch
meadia abyssalis
meridian transit method
MetaFrame
Milo of Croton
momorsion
Montalegre
Oberfranken, Regierungsbezirk
package
parliamentary police
patent of urachus
Paulownia fargesii
pintman
pocket edition
presiding chairman
prohormones
protein therapy
queen's case
quixotics
railway administration toll communication network
rent assessment committee
Ribes triste
row-mosaic
sakalas
scrofulosis
second-cut file
section girth
Shore hardness
shutter operator
singye (singae)
slipper bearing
standard lever
still-lifes
sub-contractors
Sunset Beach
tar macadam binding course
tetrachromic acid
Theaflavin-3-G
three-dimensional contouring
Turnagain Arm
velachero
ventricle of larynx
wax pore
wide-awake hat
will-to-power
with energy
yenning
ziberline