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。
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a devil of
abhorrent from
acute radiation death
admission of seaworthiness
aerodynamics force
Angelica pubescens
anne
applemint
ASHN
Atsuma
baltic shield
barretry
beds out
brockie oil
by mischance
chemical substance index
con us
corepiece
crack opening stretch
Crown Copyright
curvatures
dephenolizer
earnable
economically recoverable oil
eolian deposition
ethyl-homocysteine
Father of House of Commons
film clip
Galera, Cerro
Garrobo
general survey of tumor
glaze spray booth
Goldstripe
gravity type retarder
green anole
grind rock
have had a drop too much
hell on earth
high-tension laboratory
hydraulic rotary cylinders
hydrazinolyses
Hypericum hypericoides
inertial measurement unit (imu)
interseptal skeleton
Itirapina
Jyllands Banke
ker-slap
lesser nothuras
line expansion
Livingstonia
long-term trend research
maudlins
mechanical behavior of effective force
Middle French
monthly period
multi-country
norma superor
Nortons theorem
observation lift
Oer-Erkenschwick
overhead railways
pelican-flower
phlomis fruticosas
pillboxes
polycistronic operon
pre-constructed unit
precessus ascendens stapedis
primitive nail bed
process automation system
prosodic analysis
puffball
Rechberg
relative growth method
Sardina pilchardus
second molar teeth
shallow water acoustic propagation
ships without nationality
sigint
silylidyne
small-power computer
stability conditions
stand-by power station
stellar activity
strain through
strathtay
sulfaisomezole
sunseed
surface organisms
surface-grinding machine
tichus
trayn-
tritiate
v-fitc
valuable goods
vasculonebulous
vena facialis communis
virtual path connection termination
wallcreepers
walpole i.
watereddown
wheel rim flange
word serial