时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场社交


英语课


SCENE
③ 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。


 


1)raise  (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



学英语单词
admission policy
Arleya
as sulky as a bear
Baambrugge
balance pressure reducing valve
black-box program
burden with
busbies
business interruption insurance
Cartan-Killing form
cernser
Chinese puzzles
clobutinol
closen
co-incide
condensing rate
content gauge supports
crowning worm hob
cyclohydrase
death-cells
declining region
delhi
dematioid
despicable
deusex machina
dipp
Donnellys Crossing
down-escalators
drive-end bearing
drytype
espagnole sauce
flumequine
fuel air explosive
genus Corypha
give a final touch to
haggardly
hard corneal contact lens
head end monitor
hemangiectasis
Hemyock
heteronyms
high-inflations
hold crew
hynie
hyzer
infrared diode laser
kakhars
key performance indicator
landing gear position indicator
lime-green
littoral area
loading noise
Long Thanh
lung-kidney concurrent treatment
m.s.
make a progress report on a project
mardus
maximun reflectance of vitrinite
metallurgical feature
metrorrhexis
minimum generator down rate
Mosquitos, Cayos
moulded
Nolléval
optoelectronic diode
Ostwald's decade rheostat
page management
pink gin
powder ethods
power saw
program flow
RAD (rapid access data)
relatively-closed set
resident maintenance program
residents' committee
reverse dual currency bond
roll balance gear
Russell, Ken
salespersonship
screen wall
seconda donna
semiquantitative assessment
silver-workers
solvsbergite porphyry
steel cup
steric hindrance parameter
superbang
switch position indicator
tectonic order
trieterics
trinny
unboils
unitholders
unrate
User Datagram Protocol
venac
villainisation
vocabularies
water mass(es)
weft brake
Wheaton.
wound rotor asynchronous motor