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
'Ajlūn
account on transfer transactions
acoustic homing
aerophotogrammetric lens
amen cadences
and thing
angora layette
at the top of one's voice
back-to-back with
backwater valve
Baginton
ball stone
bang-on
biomedical fluid mechanics
black elephantiasis
black market price survey
bushing type condenser
byekeshevo (bekeshevo)
CIDST
circuit switching delay
clasp gold
cloakedly
complementary bipolar
convey assembly port
coreanus
corneoscleral punch
crystal control.
cursor address register
deliberate attack
douceur
electric-arc welding machine
emulsion number
environmental rapist
evaporator water treatment
Faulkton
filter box
finger nut
floppy disc system
forepeak tank
four boat lift net
garbers
genetic diseases
geopressure geothermal resources
gozle
green corns
half-naked
half-retinal
Hilbert programme
human blood
hylergography
intermediate handing
interrupt pending
jewellery armoire
katharsis
keto-acidoses
kilocycle per second
Lionist
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
logical predicate
love shaft
lubin
marantic endocarditis
mechanical performance
merismopedia glauca
mitzies
Moresby
Mouchoir Bk.
Mr Spock
multishirked
Municipal Convertible
Murat's fremitus
nervous-humoral regulation
neuritises
neutron logs
notification
over-stock
overall project
Palmerian
pinpointable
posterio-occlusion
pronograde
pulse polarizer
radar azimuth converter
ration allowance
return riser
run-of-the-mine
safety responsibility regulations
SAP Planned Delivery Time
SDMX
shadowood
silting bed
starter gear shifting fork
stopwater
Strozza
tangential couple
torrential flood erosion
trap-tufa
tributoxyethylphosphate
tupid
unvariable expense
vertical speed indicator
yp extent.