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
Aberdaron
adjustment of constructive total
Agualva
air-borne magnetometer
annual amount
applegath
astrocaryum vulgare
autogastralia
backbone routing
bediveres
benefactive roles
Bled, Lake
blood stagnancy
Brandeis University
breach of curfew
calimochos
catting shackle
ceisler
cementheads
cephalosporine
charge effect
cheddared
clypeole
concentric circle observation
constructive conflict
counterfloods
dead tree edition
dynamic track stabilizer
electro-dense
electronic archive
entrance designator
Equal percentage
external intercooling
field stripped
finite memory filter
fondants
Fujayrah
gather together
gift taxes
honeyed words
hunter-killers
i am coming
I.Min.E
Ie-jima
incrusting solid
indine vapour lamp
instructional management system
italo-byzantine
jack screwing
jolly with sb
kulishov
lot tolerance fraction defective (ltfd)
mambretti
Manildra
mate up
Melendugno
micro-surgeries
minors
mucidin
multispectral imaging
myriapodan
net with
noduli
normal cable
organum gustus
pesoizes
petricola
pinning down
ploppers
post-abc
posterised
primitive element
psalmodial
Pyrrhic victory
quasi-monochromatic light
remote control vessel
sarging
Scytonema arcangelii
segregated trust account
self-propelled vessel
separation strip
sharpnosed
shirtsleeve
slaughterless
Sphaerotilus
status choreicus
Stilling's nuclei
stimulated Rayleigh wing scattering
succeed to the throne
supercontinua
tap ladle
teamed
the Queen of Glory
to fall asunder
track side cubicle
train ring network
tunnel construction dust controlling
underfished
unquantified
voluntary dissolution
what hath God wrought
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