时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语小达人


英语课

   First Name Is OK


  名字也好啦
  The boss of a large company noticed a new employee one day and told him to come into his office.
  一天,一家大公司的老板注意到一个新来的雇员,于是把他叫到办公室来。
  "What is your name?" was the first thing the boss asked the new guy.
  “你叫什么名字?”老板先问道。
  "John," the new guy replied.
  “约翰,”新来的答道。
  The boss scowled 1, "Look, I don't mind what kind of a place you worked at before, but I don't call anyone by their first name! It breeds familiarity and that leads to a breakdown 2 in authority."
  老板皱着眉头说:“听着,我不管你以前在什么样的地方工作,可是我们这不会用名字称呼一个人!那样叫法是会有亲切感,但是会导致权威的丧失。”
  "I refer to my employees by their last name only--Smith, James, Henry--that's all."
  “我只以姓氏来称呼我的员工——史密斯、詹姆斯、亨利——就是这样,没什么可说的。”
  "I am to be referred to only as Mr. Hilton."
  “你要称呼我为希尔顿先生。”
  "Now that we got that straight, what is your last name?"
  “现在告诉我你的姓氏是什么?”
  The new guy sighed and said, "Darling. My name is John Darling."
  新来的叹了一口气说:“我姓达林。我叫约翰·达林。”
  "Okay, John, the next thing I want to tell you is..."
  “好吧,约翰,下面我要说的是……”
  重点讲解:
  1. tell sb. to do sth.
  叫;命令;吩咐;建议某人做某事;
  eg. A passer-by told the driver to move his car so that it was not causing an obstruction 3.
  一个过路人叫那个司机把他的车挪一挪,免得挡道。
  eg. She told me on the telephone to come help clean the house.
  她在电话里叫我过去帮忙打扫屋子。
  2. refer to
  谈及;提到;提及;涉及;称…(为);
  eg. He simply referred to him as Ronnie.
  他就叫他龙尼。
  eg. Marcia had referred to him as a dear friend.
  马西娅把他称作好朋友。
  eg. n his speech, he referred to a recent trip to Canada.
  他在讲演中提到了前不久的加拿大之行。
  3. get straight
  把…弄清楚;明确;
  eg. You need to get your facts straight.
  你需要讲清楚你的情况。
  eg. There's a lot of things we've got to get straight.
  有许多事情我们需要搞清楚。

怒视,生气地皱眉( scowl的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He scowled his displeasure. 他满脸嗔色。
  • The teacher scowled at his noisy class. 老师对他那喧闹的课堂板着脸。
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
n.阻塞,堵塞;障碍物
  • She was charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty.她被指控妨碍警察执行任务。
  • The road was cleared from obstruction.那条路已被清除了障碍。
学英语单词
a professional athlete
aaprotect
activity factor of B (in a liquid or a solid mixture)
al-rasheed
alignment time
anti-perfectionists
aporrectodea trapezoides
assembly robot
band-edge tailing
Barrault, Jean-Louis
be ambitious to do sth
beiderman
biophysics of membrane transport
blowout switch
boning room
caponier
Cetiprin
clinical genetics
cold waste
commercial fertilizer
content ratio analyzer
corticoliberin
crushable structure
customer centricity
DB
desktop videoconferencing
druggister
durable good
encander
essien
Ettrickhall
exner comprehensive system
extra heavy duty
genus omphalotuss
geometric mean inequality
group efficiency
hand brake housing
herposiphonieae
high efficiency TWT
highest probable frequency (hpf)
hold sb in high esteem
holeier
homogentisic acids
hot-tubs
instruction mode
iron-clad
Japanophobic
kizdere
kona cyclone
kragen
L, l
lactomucin
latitudinal cleavage
LC-ME
localcalls
lycocernuine
Maastrichtians
malignant auricular arrhythmia
methylphenylamine
micrometer-microscope
nimbiol
Office Francais de Recherche Sous-Marine
ophthalmoreaction
overconsolidated soil
peg-bar
pingees
pogonia macrocarpum broth
Pyeonghae
Qosqo
quadrant-edge orifice plate
radiosonde station
recommend substitutes
Rhizoma Panacis Japonici
rotating particle
roundhand
Saccharum Granorum
Saint James
schlenker
shoddy shaker
sidewheeler
silicon meter
skeezas
small calorie (cal)
softening plant
SP-54
square can
steering wheel angle
sukhoi
sulphur parakeet
the green-eyed monster
the have-nots
thixomolding
to yearn after...
tobacco looper
ultramacho
ultrasonic laparoscope
under authorities
volume color
wind someone round one's fingers
workfree
working-time
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