时间:2019-01-15 作者:英语课 分类:商务礼节美语


英语课

  销售部的Steve, Faith和Katie围绕直觉展开了讨论。Katie说

Katie: I think perhaps everyone has different kinds of intuition. I'm a pretty bad judge of character, but I'm a wiz at picking stocks!

Steve: You should go to Las Vegas! You'd make a killing 1!

Katie: (Chuckle) That's not a bad idea!

Faith: But what Katie is doing is not exactly the same as gambling 2. She reads and watches business news, but her intuition is better that other people's. She can pick out the signs and clues that the rest of us miss.

Katie说,人跟人不一样,比如她自己,I'm a pretty bad judge of character看人就经常走眼。但是I'm a wiz at picking stocks. 挑选股票确是奇才,wiz, w-i-z, wiz.

Steve开玩笑说,Katie应该到赌城拉斯维加斯去,You'd make a killing! 保准走运,赚大钱。可Faith却说,Katie选股票不是盲目下注,而是她在这方面的直觉比其他人更敏感,可以pick out the signs and clues that the rest of us miss,发现很多其他人注意不到的线索和迹象。

K: I've read books by famous CEOs and most of them talk about how important it is to develop your intuition. Of course, not every hunch 3 you have will turn out to be right.

F: That's true. Sometimes my intuition is really off! Like with my last two boyfriends.

K&S: (Laughter)

S: Intuition might play a bigger role than I think it does. My brother is a police officer and he says nine times out of ten he will just feel that something isn't right. Then when he investigates, he usually discovers he was right.

直觉也不是每次都对。除了Intuition和gut feeling,hunch, h-u-n-c-h, hunch也是直觉的意思。Faith承认,Sometimes my intuition is really off! off, o-f-f, off在这里意思是不符合标准。例如,His performance was really off recently. 他最近的表现不太好。Steve最后承认,直觉可能确实比他以为的更重要,他当警察的哥哥就说,nine times out of ten,十有八九都是他的直觉告诉他有问题,调查结果还真是那样。

K: So what should we do about this deal? Faith's intuition says there's something wrong.

S: How about if we crunch 4 the numbers again and see if there is anything fishy 5?

F: Sounds good. Let's go over all the documents with a fine-tooth comb and see if we can find the problem.

K: Will do. I'll work on it this afternoon.

F: Thanks for your input 6, guys!

Steve建议,从头再算一遍crunch the numbers again, crunch, c-r-u-n-c-h, crunch在口语里有计算、处理的意思。Faith表示赞成,决定把所有文件重新仔细地过一遍,with a fine-tooth comb用一把细齿的梳子,引伸为仔细检查。



n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.赌博;投机
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
n.预感,直觉
  • I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉,他并不真正想去。
  • I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。
n.关键时刻;艰难局面;v.发出碎裂声
  • If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
  • People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。
adj. 值得怀疑的
  • It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
  • There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。
n.输入(物);投入;vt.把(数据等)输入计算机
  • I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
  • All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。
学英语单词
3-aminomethylene-bis
abjad numerals
abstract file
Algren, Nelson
angritic
barium soap base grease
base drag correction
base-line equation
baulkline
be in keeping with
beit ed-dine
beta-msh
black smith
bluenose (of horse)
Bordj Messouda
british asianness
burgeant
Capsicum L.
Chavignon
chunkable
crank shaft defect
crotchet rest
cusp angle
cystopeltid
daily load fluctuating
dead-stop rail
deentrainment tower
DEROTREMES
dip-slip offset
distrain from
double-prism square
drip phleboclysis
DRMD
Durhams fermentation tube
elastic coefficient of transportation
elongation of thumb
environmental isolation
extended guarantee
facial crest
facultative regeneration
four-strokes
geometric axis
grid-type concave
half-cooked
hemiazygous vein
Herdman Seamount
hindu numerals
hot-seats
hyperjumps
illeis shensiensis
installation plan
It cost an arm and a leg
keelhale
knocks
laying-ups
marker sweep generator
Milinda-panha
misadaptations
multiplex projector
needless to say
neutron moisture meter
non-symmetric adjustment
nongrammatical
objectivizers
Ogilvie syndrome
oilfilled
ompbalophlebitis
once daily
open-air temperature of ships
ophitoxemia
panel strip
paraaortic
Paraplatin
path command
payment of fees
picket fence reticle
plasma temperature
potassium trithiocarbonate
printing of mezzotints
puopulsion plant
R. N. V. R.
radioniobium
Saussurea lhunzhubensis
schorlite
sensitivity of relay protection
shallow-pocket free settling classifier
someone wouldn't touch something with a ten-foot pole
statistic design value
stockleigh
subsequent marriage
tank lubrication
target lamp
terry-hoeffding test
theogonists
tickit
trophy-room
turbojet engine
unpuritanically
whatley
wilting per cent
zigzag star connection