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
-malacia
AC automatic recording fluxmeter
activity variable
actual declarer
antheridiophores
assignment of freight
autonomous-system number
BWP
captive agent
catch-and-shoot
chain of causation
clinical allergy
coal-derived liquid
collateral radiation
completely multiple value
contributively
convalescent period
Council of the Reich
crown tap
dandy note
doggy style
donor-acceptor chromogen
down-turns
drift(-)mining
elevation tracking
endocrine hypertension
epitheliomatous lupus
existent universe
exotoxin
facing wall
family corvidaes
fecal abscess
godel's theorem
grasseater
guntub
heat-operated refrigerating system
hecto-radian
high order system
histrionics
Hubble's constant
immunoconglutin
implied reader
inactive echo
insane asylum
intensity-modulated
kindling point
lead compensator
logical separator
luigite (aloisiite)
Lycurgan
macrocephenchelys brevirostris
majority building strategy
make account of
mathematical constraint
mesocolon descendens
metatrophic bacteria
Minnesotians
n-caprylic alcohol
non-empty
nonautocorrelation
Nuwefontein
nwachukwus
official documents
Ongandjera
ophthalmic dioptrics
optima
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
ovarioestrogen
pastey
phenazin
prime contract award
random fill
reactor water level
reflood(ing)
reticular part
ribosome dimer
rock channeler
RU486
running recorder
sabbatical leaves
saddle trees
semi-submerged air cushion vehicle
sepsis barbata
shockcord
soap pads
sodium silicate
stage left
stand hydrogen electrode
Strawberry Hill
strike at the foundation of something
stupid people
stylotrachealis
tax revenues
tetanoid chorea
the Lyceum
thrushling
tractrix curve
ultra-violet absorption curve
upper ideal
venemous
wet ball mill
Yonaguni-jima