时间:2019-01-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Larry 在告诉李华这个星期他办公室发生的一场争论.今天李华会学到两个常用语: to have a beef with someone 和 hit pay dirt。
LL: The boss still wants to fire Jim because they had a beef over the last sales report.
LH: 你们老板要开除 Jim,因为他们有什么? A beef?你是说他们为了一些牛肉在吵架啊?
LL: No (laughing), not beef as in the beef that you eat. To have a beef with someone means to have a disagreement. The boss and Jim had a disagreement over the sales report.
LH: 哦哈哈!原来 have a beef with someone 就是和某人有争执.这啊和我们吃的牛肉一点关系也没有.疑?那你老板为什么会和 Jim 吵架呢?
LL: Well, the boss felt that Jim had done a really bad job of preparing the report and Jim felt that the boss did not give him enough time to do the report properly.
LH: 哦~,老板觉得 Jim 写的报告太差,而 Jim 觉得老板没给他足够的时间,所以两人就这么吵起来啦? Jim had a beef with the boss.我说得对吗?
LL: Yep. Now, the boss is making everyone else miserable 1 because of his beef with Jim.
LH: 他是和 Jim 闹不开心,这跟其它人有什么关系呢?
LL: He's just been in a really bad mood and he's being tough on everyone. It's not fair. His beef is with Jim, not the rest of the people in the office.
LH: 他不高兴就对办公室里每个人都特别厉害.这是很不公平吔.他是跟 Jim 吵架,又不是和全办公室吵架。
LL: Exactly. I'm worried that the situation will go too far and there will be major problems in our office.
LH: 你怕情况这样发展下去办公室会出大问题啊?你们为什么不让 Jim 向老板道个歉.这不就完了吗?
LL: I don't think he'll do that.
LH: 他不会道歉?哎呀~,你劝劝他嘛.关键啊在他身上,道了歉紧张气氛就化解啦,对大家啊都有好处吔。
LL: It's worth a try. Maybe Jim will be willing to sacrifice his own interests and resolve 2 his beef with the boss.
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LL: Hey, Li Hua, you really hit pay dirt with that suggestion you made. Jim apologized to the boss and everybody is happy now.
LH: Jim跟你们老板道歉啦?那太好啦!不过, Larry,你说 hit pay dirt 是什么意思啊,我..我听不懂吔!
LL: To hit pay dirt means that you found something that turned out to be profitable 3 or beneficial.
LH: To hit pay dirt 就是发现了很有好处的东西.所以你刚才的意思是我的建议啊非常有用.不过,这三个词 hit, pay, 和 dirt 合在一起好怪喔.这个说法是从哪里来的啊?
LL: When miners 4 would dig for gold, they would say that they had hit pay dirt when they found dirt that contained gold.
LH: 哦~,原来是采金矿的工人,他们在挖到含黄金的矿石的时候,他们就会说 hit pay dirt,这样一解释我就懂啦。
LL: They sometimes say "strike pay dirt". Anyway, LI Hua, I also hit pay dirt today.
LH: 你今天也挖到宝啦?怎么说啊?
LL: I got a good job offer after I graduate.
LH: 你已经找到毕业后的工作啦!那太好了!是哪家公司要雇你呢?
LL: Actually, the office I'm working in offered me the job.
LH: 真的啊?就是你现在打工的这家公司?不过你真的想在那儿工作吗?
LL: At first, I wasn't that interested, but when they told me what my salary would be, I realized that I'd really hit pay dirt.
LH: 哇喔~,太棒了,你很快啊就能把你的破车卖了,买一辆高级车, a nice set of wheels.我们一块儿出去庆祝庆祝吧!
 
  今天李华学到了两个常用语.第一个是: to have a beef with someone,这就是“和某人吵架,关系紧张”的意思.另外一个常用语是: to hit pay dirt,或者说 to strike pay dirt,这是指“发现了有价值的东西”。


 



adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
vt.解决,解除;决定,决心
  • It's up to him to resolve this problem.这个问题应由他来解决。
  • This did not shake his resolve.这事并未动摇他的决心。
adj.有益的,能带来利益的,有利可图的
  • That business became profitable last year.那项生意去年变得很赚钱。
  • The convention business is very profitable for the hotel industry.承办会议业务能给旅馆业带来很高的利润。
矿工( miner的名词复数 )
  • The coal miners have come out for about two weeks. 煤矿工人已罢工约两周了。
  • The roof of the cave dropped in on the miners, trapping them. 洞穴的顶部坍了下来,砸在矿工身上。
学英语单词
administrative readjustment
alaudidaes
arshile gorky
Balagne
Biver
Bulzi
buzzes in
cardmember
castlemaine
certified instrument
colletotrichum rhoinum tassi
complection
concentrate feed
configuration data control
constrained kinematic chain
consummateth
continuous casting
curly-haired
cutaway dive
depth-chargeds
Dictyoclostus
Domodossola
doxing
El Higuerón
electrically-operated platform truck
erosion mountains
erythroblastotic
erythropoeisis
feeler spring pin
Finucane Ra.
fix point
garment leather
generator unit stator
gourlie
greywacke schist
H.D.L.W.
hartnell
herdmate comparison
high volume sampler
hollow packing
hoogenband
humetted
incisiver suture
inviters
language data
line frequency generator
link-local address
long-term government bonds
Länsi-Suomen Lääni
marine atmosphere corrosion-resisting structural steel
maritime buoyage system agreement
methylone
middleburgh
mindelo
Mošnov
nanningensis
non-pensionable supplements
nondeterministic finite automation
Orthosiphon spicatus
overrunner
Parophidion
perfumes
pilosis
plaster jeckets
Podkarpackie
posthabit
power-downs
presidentiables
proportional intensifier
pyridizin
pyrometric cone equivalent value
rail cambering machine
regular surface gauge
Roundwood Res.
scarlatina latens
shanghaiing
skin irritation assay
spaghetti strap
St. Gervasius' disease
stantly
steam turbine rotor
strong gluten
subfamily Triglinae
Sud, Pte.
thalamic medullary stria
the shakes
thermometer dial
thoracispinal
three-dimensional model
timeframes
tractor mounted
transposition pin
Tyssedal
u-tube hydrometer
ulcerable
vault money
Wanner optical pyrometer
water-carrying
wavelength spectrometer
whelping
yekke
yellow globe lily