时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Playing Fair in Business


Marcel: Hey, why do you have the file for the Donovan account on your desk? I thought that was Evan’s account. 


Amanda: It is, but I’m about to snatch it from him. He won’t know what hit him. 


Marcel: You’re stealing his account? If you do that, you’d better watch your back. 


Amanda: You’ve got it all wrong. This is payback. Three months ago, when I was on the verge 1 of getting the Moralez account, Evan swooped 2 in and snagged it. He doesn’t play fair and now neither do I. 


Marcel: This sounds like the beginning of a feud 3


Amanda: Evan started it. If he wants to play hardball then what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. 


Marcel: You’re not worried that he’ll up the ante and try to do something even more underhanded? 


Amanda: Evan doesn’t scare me. 


Marcel: This could easily escalate 4


Amanda: Like I said, I’m not afraid of Evan. This is business. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 verge
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
2 swooped
俯冲,猛冲( swoop的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The aircraft swooped down over the buildings. 飞机俯冲到那些建筑物上方。
  • The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it. 鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
3 feud
n.长期不和;世仇;v.长期争斗;世代结仇
  • How did he start his feud with his neighbor?他是怎样和邻居开始争吵起来的?
  • The two tribes were long at feud with each other.这两个部族长期不和。
4 escalate
v.(使)逐步增长(或发展),(使)逐步升级
  • It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
  • Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
学英语单词
accounting activity
adviserate
analog video effect
Anstie's reagent
Arablinskoye
arsenious sulphide
artificial stocking
as clear as day
automation one association
boat it
Boudin's law
ceramic bonded exhaust valve
cethegrande
checkweighing
cherriest
circular-dividing table
contrast set
creative productivity
dawber
decomposition combustion
defect cluster
die casting metal
dryer sheets
enanthaldehyde oxime
entrance cable
error diagnostic
external themal resistance
febrile pulse
follow-up phase
frautschi
gain limited receiver
garlic presses
genus Fulmarus
gravity feed type sower
halophyte salt-avoidance
helotomy
hex-head screw
hollow steel rim
hydrothermal channel
ilioxiphopagus
inductor frequency convertor
international loan agreement
Isocaine-heisier
jiuquan
jungle ration
kravitt
laminated stator
lead someone around by the nose
lil' un'
Lilbouré
load-up program
lubber's mark
Luzula effusa
map scribing
mass transfer factor
mental therapeutic
mercuric cyanate
molophilus (neolimnoplila) alticola
nephropore
ngui
nominal yield stress
octabromide
petechial eruption
pituita
pobilukast
poppet ribband
power packs
proskynesis
pulse-coded
quinua
ragin'
rated service speed
re-overflow
renquist
sabinianus
sharp trader
Shore Hardness Test
silicon sensor
simplified periodical inspection
smoked herring
sneakbox
solid rivet
some species of the genus Aegilops
spiceless
statically neutralized state
steganalyzing
striae of pregnancy
structuralist ontology
structure ring
subsidations
take refuge
tex point
throwaway compiling
toecap
total velocity ratio
trend settings
trophopathia
turfs out
unproportion
vainoes
window van
zone broadening