时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场社交


英语课


SCENE
B 艾文与玛莉在意式浓缩咖啡前出现  


【她整个人热力四射】


 


Elvin:  She is, like, 1) mega-intense, isn't she?


艾文:  她整个人热力四射,对吧?


 


Mary:  Ha, she is unstoppable. I'm learning so much from her.


玛莉:  没有事情能挡得住她。我跟她学了好多。


 


Elvin:  What's it like to work with her?


艾文:           跟她共事是啥感觉?


 


Mary:  She's 2) demanding. But I like that. I mean, I know our timeline is tight.


玛莉:  她的要求很高。但我喜欢那样。我是说,我知道我们的时间很紧。


 


Elvin:  Tell me about it.


艾文:  这还用说。


 


Mary:   You guys are working around the clock, I know. That guy Dave next to Zina never leaves.


玛莉:  我知道你们都在二十四小时赶工。那个坐在吉娜隔壁叫戴夫的人从没离开过。


 


Elvin:   Vince wants us to have everything 3) debugged and ready to go by the end of the month.


艾文:  文斯要我们把程序错误全部修正,准备在月底前上线。


 


 


语言详解


 


A: Your mother is so demanding!


    你妈妈的要求真高!


 


B: That's what my dad always says.


    我爸爸也总是这么说。


 


around the clock 日以继夜】


 


clock 组成的成语除了around the clock 之外,另有一个against the clock赶时间


 


A: Frank, why does your factory have to work around the clock this month?


     佛兰克,为什么你们工厂这个月要日以继夜地赶货?


B: Well, we have got quite a lot of orders for shipment this quarter.


     我们最近收到相当多订单,都要这一季出货。


 


A: In other words, you are all working against the clock now.


     换句话说,你们现在全都在赶时间。


B: You're right.


    你说对了。


 


1) mega-intense  intense是指紧张的、一触即发的,字首(prefix) mega非常,相当多的意思,亦指 百万的,如  megabyte百万位元组


2) demanding (a.) 要求很高的


3) debug (v.) (电脑)除虫,指修正电脑程序中的错误。



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a happy
a.hill
ablative absolute
absent from work without reason
Ahwai
artemisiifolia
Bereketa
biyik
blacksmith welded joint
blowtorches
body track
brake pull rod adjusting screw
branch and bound model
broadcast journalist
cadge
cagebirds
Cajueiro, L.do
carriage of passenger
chain silicate
chatfly
CHIOLOPODA
choupique
circumcomponent of velocity
coalitions
contraculture
coriacellate
database management system
dental elevator
deoxidizes
depreciation declining balance method
drawn-in scale
dynamical equinox
Echandi, Cerro
edelstone
endaunture
entrainment limit
extinguish(ing) material
fortification (of alcohol)
fraudulent debtor
free-living organism
frown-lines
gaffrigged
genus Pollachius
golfingiids
hardware tree
heteroion
high-throughput interconnection structure
Home Premium
hypothalamic hypophysiotropic hormone
image-scanning device
impulse summation
intercepting truck
Jabbas
laser distance measuring instrument
legislatrre
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magnetic field pressurization conbustion sintering
monodesmosidic
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mounting test
musculus unipennatus
NAFTA
national security strategy
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nodular graphite cast-iron
nondidactic
NWF (nozzle wake frequency)
ophthalmophasmatoscopy
oversea location
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paunchways
people-intensive
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polygonum aubertiis
porous water proofing
potassium tetracyanoplatinate(ii)
practicers
profit and loss report
quick take
ragery
reference relation
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saturation in back-iron LEM
scandinavian nations
scrunchions
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sengler
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stizolobiumcapitatum(st weet)o.ktz.
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thornicrofts
torch lighter
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vois
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willingdons