时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Being Unsure and Unready 


Aida: When our bigwigs from the Cleveland office arrive next week, I think we’ll have a lot to show them. 


Dale: I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Giselle told me yesterday that it’s a toss up whether she’ll finish the program she’s working on by next week, but don’t quote me on that. 


Aida: I thought she was already done with it. 


Dale: I think that she’s still tinkering with it because she isn’t 100 percent sure she’s worked out all of the bugs 1


Aida: All right. I hope she gets a move on and fast. I’ll still have Joe’s prototype to show them, right? 


Dale: Well, the last time I spoke 2 with Joe, he said that the prototype is still a work in progress. Whether it’ll actually work is iffy, at best. 


Aida: Are you trying to tell me that we’re not ready for this visit at all? 


Dale: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn’t count on having much to show them, sorry. 


Aida: Then, what am I supposed to do when they want to see the progress on our work? 


Dale: I suggest some fast-talking and fancy tap dancing! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 bugs
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
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abbreviation of
abusability
Active-high
afford on opportunity
anticyclonic wind sheer
astite
atmospheric corrosion test
auto off control in condensation
barkat
both vendor and purchaser
camecoes
chargeable to tax
clorazepate monopotassium salt
coigne
common pochard
conductor access method
corpora reticulare
cutlefish
cylindrical turning
desktop publishings
Dual currency bonds
earlier on
economic alliance
elongation viscosity
enough of a fool to do something
evipan-sodium
farm-industry-commerce enterprice
final set strength
fit
flow shadow
gas separating
genus Elodea
geosacred
gravitational settling velocity
grease-proof antioxidant paper
grouping of frequency distribution
hebephrenias
Herrera de los Navarros
himes
hollm
Impatiens davidii
inferior phrenic vein
inhumes
inverse vandalism
judicial arbitration
kadaifi
Kristeller technique
kunstseide
lagomite
lagrange interpolating polynomial
Lambu
lead sulfide photodetector
li pu chi
listening figures
Liverbird
longshore wind
macroscopicl
main floor
malasseziosis
mangling
melanure
meris
moderator-fuel lattice
multiplexer gate
negative spread
nephremia
oeser
on-line job
outband signaling
overrelaxation method
oxazolone
Pcim
plastication mastication
plight oneself to someone
Port Maitland
postnuclear
preferenced
relevant backtracking
reroofed
resegregate
rhodosamine
sacredize
samarium halide
sequoia national parks
sieve cell
Sims's position
spare me an hour
stipulatio
Takazaki
tax law
team development
tectonic denudation
tetradecyl mercaptan
the-co
uncashable
unit load command
unlucent
water-purifications
weighing equipment
Whirling Dervishes
winers
Zrmanja