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
afm
antichoicer
approved cable
arc furnace emergency switch
Arianizes
assembly automation
attendant ship
aufait
back-tunneling
basimglurant
beltrame
Braine-le-Comte
cacodes
caliber compass
care-givers
castniid
cerargyrite(kerargyrite)
cerithium echinatus
chest-bursters
concrete reactor
Couvinian
crystallization of sucrose
dairyman's itch
deep pool
dispoped
DTMS
edge cutter
effective core
electrochemiluminescent
engineering change
environmental carcinogen
equivale
flateous
full file management
gain full laws
gamsa
gridding algorithm
HAKUTOBO
handcard
Hardap Reg.
hocus-pocusing
I.Q.
intravenous anesthetic
konigsberg
leninghausii
lgende
ligamentum suspensorium
linear phase shift
local discard policy
Lungro
melanate
methylthiobenzoic
microstylis monophyllos lindl.
minimum threshold power
mocvd coating
neodymium addition
non-terminated
nonseparable
Novhorod
oil production brigade
optuss
painted
paraffined paper conenser
plastic volumetric strain
pointwise ergodic theorem
Poland sequence
polhode cone
Populus pekinensis
pre inlet valve
present value approach
primary control position
primitia
radiator brush guard
regauges
rehydrate
rubrum
salicet
sand product
Schmidt-Lantermann's incisures
second-level access
set of residuals
shell auger
shrimp meat grading
stacked-up
standard molar gibbs free energy
supply on moderate terms
t.vs
Taroum
technical study
timeworker
TSH
turbulent fluid
two-color thermometer
unhable
untight
viscous flow region
warp clay
WCET
Weber's sign
weighting operation
xte
zone compression