时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:初级-Basic Listening


英语课

 工作上的不顺利


A: "Why the long face?"


B: "I'm getting sick of work man. I can't take the political bull 1 in the company any more."


A: "Did you just get your review or something?"


B: "Yeah, but that's not why I am upset. I just found out another guy got a promotion 2. He doesn't know how to do anything. He sits there and kisses the managers butt 3 all day long."


A: "That sucks."


B: "I'm just pissed that management can't see behind his smooth talking lies."


A: "Look on the bright side. At least you have a job."


B: "Yeah. I shouldn't stress about this anymore. It's not like I can do anything about it."


A: "Exactly. Instead, we should have some drinks tonight."


B: "How about a cold bottle of beer."


A: "Now you're talking."



1 bull
n.公牛,买进证券投机图利者,看涨的人
  • It's only a hair off a bull's back to them.这对他们来说,不过九牛一毛。
  • Many dogs closed around the bull.很多狗渐渐地把那只牛围了起来。
2 promotion
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
3 butt
n.笑柄;烟蒂;枪托;臀部;v.用头撞或顶
  • The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
  • He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。
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academic title
aide memoire
air governor
aquaelung
Araia
Armenian chant
atrophia maculosa cutis
bioethicists
block address
busted it
butylation
chenin blancs
cobbles together
column format
common curvature
contour effects
cotts
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earthquake baroque
endosulfans
estipitate
ethionic
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ferners
filamentosa
fragrancy pork in Zhenjiang style
free surface spinning
geniculum nervi facialis
Geonim
girdle-sensation
global wind system
glow-discharge voltage regulator tube
grazing allotment
guest bar
Hanafite school
headward erosion
heteroscedastic
Incumbency Certificate
indirect departmental cost
input communication
insectocution
jaw type quick coupler
latent summer-heat
leaf-like tissue
liquid pressure
Magallanes
man-machine interactive control
median furrow
mercury vapo(u)r
Mfou
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Mohamit
moisture setting adhesive
nanometer(nm)
Nilandron
non-phenolic tanning agent
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one way only channel
ore mineral
pay packet
perreptation
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precautional patent
put the sand in the wheels
pypyn
Pérignac
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rotating cylinder (pneumatic)
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stockholders
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sword dance
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thereaways
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tsuha
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very high density lipoprotein (VHDL)
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