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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a BC
autopiloted
available input signal power
backreacts
basket
bezu
BSP test
cathedratical
consumer-generated
crocodylus acutus
cycle-criterion
Céüse, Montagne de
damp marsh
deadbeat
delivery man
Delsolin
dierickx
Distilben
dose meter
dynagraph
escaps
estate upon condition
Facts and Illustrations of Plants
filmnik
fine pith cutter
finite superposition
first-order condition
forward method
galbatorix
garbage out
Gargazzone
gate detector
guttae physostigminae
hathenes
heavy current
helium ionization detector
herdmate average
humidifying radiator
hydrogen cross section
Ilex godajam
imidophosphonic acid
inhir
initial shear thrust
inlive
judicial guarantee
Koz'modem'yanskoye
line of merchandise
make your voice heard
mameter
marrest
masolin
memory load
Miacalcic
micronome
miracle drug
mothers superior
mountain tai
multistratum control
niteroi (nictheroy)
numbering
Oletta
pan and roll tile
phenolics
pipe coiling machine
pipe-pushing
plain-paper
pneumatic filling
Poncyl
primitive logical formulas
printer margin
Prunus serrula
Qarah Būlāq
quarter sessions
radar direction finding
reategui
regular
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seismic qualification
sensationalizers
sexagenary
slice of matrix
specific Gibbs function
ST_building-and-engineering_road-junctions
stabilized animal fat
standard tooling
suspension systems
Swertia rosularis
tapping hammer
tariff concession
tetracosactide
the staggers
toggle lever arm
track controller
tractella
traitourly
transient part
trapped air-fuel ratio
treasure-hunt
tripod implant
wildlife parks
Zabaykalsky Krai
zero juncture