时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Getting Praise and Recognition 


Rene: Hey, look who’s here. It’s the company’s golden boy. 


Bruno: Very funny. 


Rene: I’m not joking. First, you’re recognized at the annual meeting for your work in the company, and then you get a commendation from the city for your volunteer work. I’m basking 1 in your reflected glory. 


Bruno: I didn’t ask for either honor, as you well know. I’m not a glory hound. 


Rene: Yes, and that’s what makes it even more galling 2. You don’t have to go seeking your glory; it comes to you. 


Bruno: Knock it off! I like praise as much as the next guy, but I’d rather not be in the limelight. 


Rene: I know. You’re exceptional and you’re modest about it. You’re the perfect guy. You leave us mere 3 mortals in the dust. 


Bruno: I’m leaving. I know you love giving me a hard time, but remember this: I give as good as I get – and I have a long memory! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 basking
v.晒太阳,取暖( bask的现在分词 );对…感到乐趣;因他人的功绩而出名;仰仗…的余泽
  • We sat basking in the warm sunshine. 我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。
  • A colony of seals lay basking in the sun. 一群海豹躺着晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 galling
adj.难堪的,使烦恼的,使焦躁的
  • It was galling to have to apologize to a man she hated. 令人恼火的是得向她憎恶的男人道歉。
  • The insolence in the fellow's eye was galling. 这家伙的傲慢目光令人恼怒。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
3 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
学英语单词
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Acer caudatifolium
advantage gen
alternating-current motor
apex cornus posterioris medullae spinalis
beresitization
Bergumermeer
Birket Fatmé
biventer
californians
carlots
cavernosus
chance packing
counterwait
customary's account
decoding rule
delayed neutron damping
drug-delivery
dunnage
endres
fewnesses
fill plate
flat counter
folded antenna
fore-paw
formbuilding
fossil-fuel(l)ed power station
Georgi Zhukov
goatwater
grand vitesse
gullfoss (golden falls)
hardly...than...
hd-tv
hemiretina
Hickory Plains
hydrogen arc lamp
ilusha
in fornt
independent binomial experiments
indirect staining
infrared remote sensing system
juneating
kalala
kaziss
laser spectrometer
Lutenlin
m/d
Malibu board
manation
marriage vow
menjangan
moonlighter
moses ranklike dispersion test
moving scale
multi person decision making
Mvengué
nigrous
outframes
parameter position
pause edit
paxil
piss into the wind
pneumocystiss
positive symmetric operator
positive-ray analysis
professor ate
prominence of lateral semicircular canal
pronetalol
radiotelephone distress frequency watch receiver
Raesfeld
railway turbine
rhythmic stratification
Rio Marina
sappression
sealing water pipe connection
shearson
significates
SLPLK
solvated metal atom impregnation
Spiroplatinum
Station Commander
strikebreaker
submerged soils
sucks
support-rig downhole drill
sustained overvoltage
synthetic protein
talk someone's ear off
tanelli
trident polymorphic engine
tropical abscess
turn somebody on
two-spotted spider mite
udalric
vapor decomposition
variable speed gear
virginalling
wall scattering
wedge slit
whoremistress
zambombas
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