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
adent
agrypnocoma
aluminium grease
Aterax
audio frequency therapy apparatus
battens down
bonding pads
bousarde
brake sticking
bulk blasting
can rejecting
centerx central office
Ciba colors
commemorator
conceptual data base design methodology
continuous haulage
contra-related
controll
cyclone of dynamic origin
dalous
demarchelier
diffusion rubber
disposableness
downstates
ear-phones
enrollment of vessel
error data analysis
eutectogenic system
female animal
flatworm
free energy curve
gaspar
gatefold sleeve
geoffrey chaucers
Grândola, Sa.de
heat of combination
hydrosynthesis
hymned
infin.
integrated service digit network (isdn)
inverse mottle
Jim Jones
Kelloggia
Killduff
Kitzbühler Alpen
knavinge
linear ordered relation
lipped channel
loiter away
majuscule writing
make up one's mind
mamilliform
manic-depressive
Mantoum
minivet
minuends
Morus liboensis
mosa
multidimensional index
non magnetic laboratory
nondestructive storage
o'brien's granuloma
offshore currency deposit market
operator chart
orexin tannate
Palazzo, Pta.
Panagyurishte
parater-butylphenol
phaedo
photographic emulson ethods
pitching tank
polypus of lacrymal sac
prismatic beam
programmable pacemaker
pseudopod-like
quick-reaction interceptor
receptor-coder
Red Sea Governorate
resistance movements
Rhamnella wilsonii
scardamyxis
semiclairvoyant
sensitivity reduction
shed loads
shopmen
shout ... down
shuttle changing automatic
sinkablest
slip-ring device
soluble perfume
stern overhang
stuck farm
tael
trinitroresorein
tube
tuomisto
ultimes avertissements
underwoods
unitting of lots
unsold balance
wetting heat
zeropressure