ESL Podcast 604 – Harming a Professional Reputation
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
Alex: Good morning. What’s with the gloom and doom 1?
Paige: Have you seen this morning’s newspaper?
Alex: No, I haven’t.
Paige: You’d better read this. It’s an article about our company.
Alex: Let me see that. This is outrageous 2! How can anybody print such lies? We’re not on the verge 3 of going under. How did they get a hold of so much misleading and outright 4 wrong information?
Paige: What I’m irate 5 about is what it says about you, as the owner. The article is full of innuendos 6 about your background. It’s nothing short of character assassination 7. We’ll sue the paper for defamation 8 of character.
Alex: I’m not worried about my personal reputation. I’m more concerned about the company’s image. I’m going down to that paper and making them print a retraction 9.
Paige: How’re you going to do that?
Alex: After I call the reporter a no-good mudslinger, I’ll give him the facts, the ones he neglected to include in this story.
Paige: Be careful what you say to him, especially in front of his coworkers. You don’t want him suing you for slander 10!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
- The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。
- Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
- Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。
- 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。
- If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事，你应该直率地对我说。
- You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。
- The irate animal made for us,coming at a full jump.那头发怒的动物以最快的速度向我们冲过来。
- We have received some irate phone calls from customers.我们接到顾客打来的一些愤怒的电话
- Miss Moneypenny:Some day, you will have to make good on your innuendos. 彭妮：有朝一日，你会报偿你的暗示。 来自互联网
- Don't spread gossip, rumor, innuendos, unkindness, malicious words or physical anger. 不要散布谣言、闲话。 来自互联网
- The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
- Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
- Character defamation can be either oral or written.人格诽谤既可以是口头的也可以是书面的。
- The company sued for defamation.这个公司因受到诽谤而提起诉讼。
- He demanded a full retraction of the allegations against him.他要求完全收回针对他的言论。
- The newspaper published a retraction of the erroneous report.那家报纸声明撤回那篇错误的报道。