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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abbreviated address calling
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amsler ball imprint depth indicator
amsonia tabernaemontanas
Arcoskop
artificial isotopes
Asticcacaulis
attraction injector
Backus-Naur notation
be identical to
binstein
bohr-sommerfeld quantum theory
buying title
cabin top
cannabic oil
carbon rod
cartridge fonts
cautious control
Celto-Roman
change of occupation
child rearing
chronic granulomatous disease
coal brick
contour code
counsellable
cylinder-processing machine
dataviews
defendour
diesel fuel improver
direct-type wave
don't forget
dynamic population
dysexpression
electrodissolvent
farmings-out
fatigue test machine
favo(u)rable terms
fideicommissary
financial-review
front bay
Fusulina
Ganskuil
general shear failure
gesneriaceaes
gics
glycyrrhiza lepidotas
gold plugger
gummy sharks
homogeneity of available acts
in situ concrete
incisional hernia
influcnza vaccine
Ingenika, R.
interlayer surface
johnny raw
mansionization
Mattessich model
maximum operational load factor
mid-wale corduroy
NAMH
needle-guns
Nikitovka
out-processing
paddy field boat
palliard
PECC
personales
porcelain foundation
precipitation evaporation quotient
preconsolidation
pressure fired boiler
price-capping
ptpase
qtr.
recursive relationship
retire from office
right atrium (or right auricle)
ruelles
santeiro
snowball structure
Sobolev inequality
SRLF
statutory information
surface finishes
system entry date/time
tacamahac
tax investments
teacher-pupil relationship scale
three level return system
throat-band
touches wood
trim width
turn screw
two-dimensional geometry
undergo trial for
United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany
universal fermi weak interaction
unsophisticatedness
weigela, weigelia
Westbrook
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