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。
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a baboon
abercrombies
Annulipalpia
anodic protector
assumed mediam
axial module
bare pole charter
be lovely
broyse
cardakew
carse
cladobotryum aleuritidis
colloid substance
Coopers and Lybrand
cracked pitches
cross station
cross-section of conductor
cyanobacteria
deir abu said (dayr abu said)
divided harness
Downholme
draped
Dudleyville
earth observation
elastic creep recovery
electrose
explosive torpedo
external orifices
extrajudicial document
falsisms
feeable
fin ray (or pterygiophore (pterygophore))
floor plates
flow recompression
foot rot and leaf blight of brome grass
fuel reprocessing
functional assessment
gastroenteropancreatic endocrine system
glovers suture
hazard and race condition
hungry-man
hutchful
hyperrealities
iminos
immersion electron lens
indirect injurious insect
inter-industry equilibrium
ixioides
John-a-stiles
Kadoma
Kainantu
kommunalka
laryngeal catarrh
left Artinian ring
live-forever
local education committee
Machaeni
magnetic disk cartridge
maximum average temperature
miscleaving
mycopsphaerella brassicicola (fries) lindau
nested cell
non-Euclidean radius
ostreids
PDLCs
perieodic current
pharyngo-oesophageal system
phosphor-dope
pilot-in-command
PIPD
pneumatic bulk vehicle
post-tarsal
press-stud
pulleyblock
punch configuration
quadruple star system
random disturbance term
rear commodore of convoy
resistance-capacitance generator
Rhinoestrus
rock-hopping
routineanalyticalbalance
rush hours
saccharite
screening
sea trifolies
senex
smog chamber
Sorbus caloneura
stream-line
subaerial spring
sunshines
tar dehydrating still
thermal cycler
titanic oxides
torous
unchalked
untanking facilities
uranyl fluoride
wall coated open tubular column
wharfmasters
wudhu