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
adhesive solvent
air-swallowing
altitude figure
amidine
anhydrosugars
antilittering
bicartesian closed category
blast-proof design
break one's oath
Center Hill
centre of moment
color oscillator
correlation design
data gathering system
die wear
dielectric absorption spectrum
don't care bit
dragline cableway
Eleatic
electric nasopharyngoscope
epipephysitis
expouse
flathead rivet
fluorograph
forward gear
gas turbine pump system
giagivolinguo-axial
granth sahibs
grizzuti
helixact
hermansen
high speed slow-scanning oscillograph
impulse switch
in buff
infrared absorption spectrum measurement
karl rudolf gerd von rundstedts
kosuke
kvarner
labour productivity index
last activity date
Le Moyen
legacy tax
Levanxol
macroclimatically
Magnesio-Anthophyllite
marbelise
mardanas
maurnilam
miscomprehends
misplanting
Monomitsin
non-proprietary
nonantiretroviral
North Atlantic
palatopterygoid
paygrade
pdkis
PHAC
pharyngitid
photocopy machine
Pilger seamless-tube mill
potluck party
preliminary design review
proeutectic cementite
quartz frequency stabilizer
quotient filtration
random sentence
red-letters
revertive circuit
right of use
shear creep compliance
sixty fourth rest
skeleton crews
slant face
slip wire
sound tight
spewer
stroker
sugiura
sulphur sensitization
system support user
tag tandem
take sb's part
tapener
temporal series
terminal emulation
terrapene coahuila
to nosedive
traunitz
trim mark
ungreases
unobeisance
unrepulsable
up-over
vacant land tax
vibration measurement
water mains
water penetration
wave of compression
willumsen
wutaishanicus
xrfs