轻松日记商务职场篇102:有点儿玄
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：轻松日记商务职场篇
轻松日记商务职场篇102:有点儿玄
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英语课
核心句型：
The raise you want is a bit iffy.
你想要加薪的事儿有点儿玄了。
a bit iffy直译过来就是：“有点未确定”，这个短语的正确意思是：“有点玄乎”。因此，当美国人说"The raise you want is a bit iffy."时，他/她要表达的意思就是:"It becomes improbable to give you a raise."、"Whether you will be raised is uncertain."。
情景对白：
Terry: My performance of this month is not bad. I'll treat you if I get a raise.
泰瑞：我这个月的业绩还不错，加薪了请你吃饭。
Benjamin: The raise you want is a bit iffy. Something is wrong with the company's capital operation.
本杰明：你想要加薪的事儿有点儿玄了。公司的资金运转出了点问题。
搭配句积累：
①Our boss is a really penny pincher.
我们老板是个名副其实的吝啬鬼。
②The time is not yet ripe.
时机尚未成熟。
③But I really appreciate your efforts for the development of our company.
但我确实很感激你对公司发展所作的努力。
④Don't get your hope too high.
别抱太大的希望了。
单词：
1. capital n. 资本，资金
Companies are having difficulty in raising capital...
各公司融资困难。
A large amount of capital is invested 1 in all these branches.
一大笔资金投入了各分公司。
Shortage 2 of capital held back economic development.
资金缺乏阻碍了经济发展。
2. penny pincher 吝啬鬼
I have no dark money for my over time work,our boss is a penny pincher.
我加班没有加班费，我们老板是个小气鬼。
Our boss is nothing but a penny—pincher so most of the employees want to quit.
我们的老板是个十足的吝啬鬼，大多数员工都想辞职。
Like so many other men of means, john was a penny pincher.
约翰和其他许多小气鬼一样是个吝啬的家伙。
v.投资，花费( invest的过去式和过去分词 )；授予；（把资金）投入；投入（时间、精力等）
- The money will be invested in managed funds. 这笔钱将投资于管理基金。
- He invested his lawyer with complete power to act for him. 他让律师全权代办。 来自《简明英汉词典》