时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Dealing 1 With Corrupt 2 Officials


Vera: I can’t believe that Stan has been arrested. I know that he wasn’t always on the up-and-up, but he’s being accused of influence peddling 3 and taking bribes 4


Keigo: Stan has been getting kickbacks 5 for years. Everybody knew that if you wanted to get what you wanted from this department, you had to grease Stan’s palms. There isn’t a more corrupt official than Stan. 


Vera: But he was always so nice to me. 


Keigo: That was part of the problem. He was always good to his friends and family. That’s why he’s also known for his nepotism 6 and cronyism 7. He gave friends and family plum jobs with big salaries. He had an entire good old boy network. 


Vera: Do you really think he’ll go to jail? 


Keigo: I’m sure of it. On second thought, if he can find a judge who’s on the take and is as corrupt as he is, he has a fighting chance. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
2 corrupt
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
3 peddling
忙于琐事的,无关紧要的
  • He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes. 他的工作是上门推销抹布和刷子。
  • "If he doesn't like peddling, why doesn't he practice law? "要是他不高兴卖柴火,干吗不当律师呢?
4 bribes
n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏
5 kickbacks
n.激烈反应( kickback的名词复数 );佣金,回扣
  • Everyone at City Hall is receiving kickbacks. It's the only way to get anything done there. 市政府里的每个人都收回扣,在那里只有送红包,事情才办得成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • G raft or kickbacks paid to officials or law enforcem ent authorities. 暗中付给官员或执法人员的回扣。 来自互联网
6 nepotism
n.任人唯亲;裙带关系
  • The congressman lashed the president for his nepotism.国会议员抨击总统搞裙带关系。
  • Many will regard his appointment as the kind of nepotism British banking ought to avoid.很多人会把他的任命看作是英国银行业应该避免的一种裙带关系。
7 cronyism
n.任人唯亲,对好朋友的偏袒
  • Many small town mayor and city official practice cronyism.许多小镇的市长和大城市的官员都有任人唯亲的行为。
  • Bringing business people into politics can also produce corruption and cronyism.商人从政也容易带来腐败和任人唯亲。
学英语单词
.mv
alignment hole
alkylferrocene
all-weld bridge
antipress
atrex
autonomous function
bordure
budell
chastizement
colores
colour television mask
compact disk-interactive
cribrous
cross-river buoy
crossed roller chains
dangerous pile
dannys
deep search
deoppilated
differential liberation
diffusion-reflection
divisionalizations
dumasia cordifolia benth et. backer
effective gas-oil ratio
eggs benedicts
erosional basin
fabii
falls off the wagon
felting resistance
fenbutatin oxide
fuel tolerance
fur goods
genus Prosopis
glenlyon
hash brownie
heavyheartedly
high-altitudes
high-frequency test bay
hyperemia cardiac failure
increasing nutrient concentration
incremental frequence shift
interpols
jail-bird
jyllands-posten
kasts
Kenacort
less-polluting
line clinometer
linguistic semiotics
load-balancing
Luxemburgish
magnetomechanical ratio
manual slot
marginal cost and revenue
mean blade width
mixed banking system
moderately fine texture
motlanthe
multiple sequence operation
Niekerkshoop
nominal terms
noncowboy
order cycadaless
overshoulder
overspecific
packing cloth
pain in the rear
pardoning the bad is injuring the good
personal selling
pointwise finite
poke and pry
pouring reel
preclavus
profits by
protestant church music
put under one's belt
rainmaker remover nozzle
reachability graph
reflex receiver
Resykin
river-marine vessel
root crops
scalene right triangle
scheduling resource
sima rock
simultaneousequation model
square-wave pulse of light
superfine grain developer
synangium
Tabakerz
taxing power
Ticonal
totally enclosed type motor
Trailliaedoxa
true yeasts
trypots
unscroll
USMA
water proofing material
xanthan
yang jin