轻松日记商务职场篇97:百闻不如一见
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：轻松日记商务职场篇
英语课
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Seeing is believing.
百闻不如一见。
Seeing is believing是一句家喻户晓的谚语，其出处现已无法考证，是代代普通民众长期积累流传下来的思想。这个谚语用一个中国的成语来对照就是：“眼见为实”，意译过来就是：“百闻不如一见”。因此，当美国人说"Seeing is believing."时，他/她要表达的意思就是"What you see is true."、"One eyewitness 1 is better than ten hearsays."、"A picture is worth a thousand words."。
情景对白：
Terry: Oh, Ben. I was assigned to see that captious 3 client this afternoon. He is really the most ticklish 4 client I have ever met. Seeing is believing!
泰瑞：噢，本，今天指派我去会见那个吹毛求疵的客户，他真是我见过最难对付的客户了，真是百闻不如一见啊！
Benjamin: Really? Who would have the power to daunt 5 our hero?
本杰明：真的吗？是谁居然能打倒我们的英雄？
搭配句积累：
①You'd better come and see it by yourself.
你还是来亲自看一下吧。
②He is a resourceful leader indeed.
他确实是一位足智多谋的领导。
③What you heard might not be true.
你听到的不一定是真的。
④You should not place too much credit in hearsay 2.
你不应该过于相信道听途说。
单词：
1. hearsay n. 传闻，谣言
Much of what was reported to them was hearsay...
向他们汇报的消息中很多都是道听途说。
Rumour 6, myth and hearsay obscure the truth after months of bloodshed.
杀戮持续了数月后，真相在谣言、谎话和传闻的遮掩下变得模糊不清。
2. a picture really is worth a thousand words 【俚语】百闻不如一见，画能达万意
A picture is worth a thousand words, and we really wanted parents and professionals to be able see what the early warning signs look like.
一个画面值千个言语，我们真的想要家长们和专家，能够看到自闭症早期的症状，他们有阅读能力，不过要等到行为出现才知道，很难了解较细微的症状。
It is said that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. But aside from slides and charts, you can also offer metaphors 7, similes 8, and anecdotes 9 to better engage your audience.
有句话说：“一张照片胜如一千个文字描述。”但除了幻灯片跟图表以外，你也可以提供一些隐喻、明喻与小典故来更好地引起听众的兴趣。
3.daunt vt. 使畏缩
I'm somewhat daunted 10 by the size of the task.
我有点儿被这项任务的规模吓着了。
Even a greater natural calamity 11 cannot daunt us.
再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
4. resourceful adj. 足智多谋的
He was amazingly inventive and resourceful, and played a major role in my career...
他极具创造力，而且足智多谋，在我的职业生涯中起到了重要的作用。
Her mother was a resourceful and energetic woman.
她母亲是一个足智多谋、精力充沛的女人。
n.目击者，见证人
- The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
- He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。
n.谣传，风闻
- They started to piece the story together from hearsay.他们开始根据传闻把事情的经过一点点拼湊起来。
- You are only supposing this on hearsay.You have no proof.你只是根据传闻想像而已，并没有证据。
adj.难讨好的，吹毛求疵的
- There is no captious client but faulty product and service.没有挑剔的客户，只有不完善的产品和服务。
- His criticisms were always captious and frivolous,never offering constructive suggestions.他的评论一向轻率并爱吹毛求疵，从不提出有建设性的建议。
adj.怕痒的；问题棘手的；adv.怕痒地；n.怕痒，小心处理
- This massage method is not recommended for anyone who is very ticklish.这种按摩法不推荐给怕痒的人使用。
- The news is quite ticklish to the ear,这消息听起来使人觉得有些难办。
vt.使胆怯，使气馁
- Danger did not daunt the hero.危险并没有吓倒这位英雄。
- Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us.再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
n.谣言，谣传，传闻
- I should like to know who put that rumour about.我想知道是谁散布了那谣言。
- There has been a rumour mill on him for years.几年来，一直有谣言产生，对他进行中伤。
隐喻( metaphor的名词复数 )
- I can only represent it to you by metaphors. 我只能用隐喻来向你描述它。
- Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors. 因此她是天使，他是雄狮都是比喻说法。
（使用like或as等词语的）明喻( simile的名词复数 )
- Similes usually start with "like" or "as". 明喻通常以like或as开头。
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 要比仿她，要模拟她，总得以鸟类始，还得以鸟类终。
n.掌故，趣闻，轶事( anecdote的名词复数 )
- amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor 关于他短暂演员生涯的趣闻逸事
- He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman. 他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
使（某人）气馁，威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 )
- She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead. 她是一个勇敢的女人，但对面前的任务却感到信心不足。
- He was daunted by the high quality of work they expected. 他被他们对工作的高品质的要求吓倒了。