时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场社交


英语课


SCENE
A  吉娜去她老板的隔间看他 


【我就不拐弯抹角了】


 


Zina:  Vince. We're both busy, so I'm not going to beat around the bush. I need a 1) raise.


吉娜:         文斯。大家都很忙,我就不拐弯抹角了。我要加薪。


 


Vince:         I can't do that, Zina. You know I can't.


文斯:         办不到,吉娜。你知道我无能为力的。


 


Zina:           2) Bull. I're done my 3) research. I know you still 4) control more than 65 percent of InfoKing 5) options.


吉娜:         胡扯。我做了研究。我知道你仍掌握了资讯王百分之六十五以上的股权。


 


Vince:  Who told you that?


文斯:         谁跟你说的?


 


Zina:  That doesn't matter. I want 6) at least 4 percent.


吉娜:         那不重要。我少说要百分之四。


 


语言详解


 


A: I have done extensive research on the French Revolution.


    我对法国大革命做过广泛的研究。


 


B: Then you must have been to Paris.


    那你一定去过巴黎。


 


beat around the bush拐弯抹角】


 


beat around the bush原意是指猎人在打猎时,先在草丛附近拍打,以让鸟类猎物受惊而现出踪迹,引申出藉由迂回的方式,不针对问题回答,犹如中文里的拐弯抹角


 


A: Stop beating around the bush, and tell me what you want.


     别拐弯抹角,告诉我你要什么。


B: I want a divorce.


     我要离婚。


 


A: What did Tom want to tell you?


     汤姆那时想要跟你说什么?


B: I'm not sure. He kept beating around the bush.


     我不确定。他一直在拐弯抹角。


 


1raise  (n.) 加薪


2)  bull  原意是公牛,这里是用作 bullshit 委婉说法。


3)  research  (n.) 研究


4)  control  (v.) 控制


5)  option (n.) 选择,此指股票选择权


6)  at least  至少,起码



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0394
Aavasaksa
albona
altamont
Anthracolithic period
Aphelinidae
asiopodabrus kuriharai
assignation house
base cloth
black body, blackbody
Brahma Samaj
Brehmer's treatment
cam flank
Carterize
charcoal burners
ciclofenazine
CIF Ex-Ships Hold
classer's line
clytuss
colloidal malacon
common skink
completely convex function
computation of reinforcement
crinkle root
crossed helical gear pair
cytosine-c
deoxycortone acetate
Desmodium multiflorum
dexatrim
Diluvial epoch
Diquanil
direct acting steam engine
downplayed
ectocranially
enoughs
evertor
external respiration
fast reaction kinetics
flexural fatigue
folder directory
gate non-trigger voltage
gob-guide knob
groove insert
hagstrom
hamels
hellzapoppin
hypogastric zone
hyporhamphus yuri
impolitest
Kopčany
latch bracket screw
left lobe of liver
liability account
limuluss
machined-spoiled time
Mansonia ochracer
mantoon
Maritime Code of USSR
mayonnaised
McGyverisms
methodological nationalism
mineral separating fluid
mixing property
mobile tyre inflation unit
moisten one's clay
multisoil
natural-colour reception
nazi germanies
nevado del ruiz
noise measuring buoy
normal tongue
nyein
one to one marketing
oreximania
patriated
polar lipid
pre-package
prune juice sputhum
quarter nelson
queen maud mts.
rainier
reading precision
rectangular equation
Rostellularia khasiana
row of rivets
setsquare
side tipping bucket
size-dependent
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spikenards
square integrable martingale
tenatoprazole
thin filament
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titration alkalinity
took a view of
under circumstances
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z-intercepts