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。
学英语单词
1-hydroxysulfurmycin
abyme
acoustic homing torpedo
actual state
akihitoes
alphabeting
AM (amplitude modulation)
angiokeratoma of Mibelli
anorectal
anti-acid flooring
Ardning
asphyxiant action
automatic air traffic control
B.D.S.T.
blame for
blended
boiron
boxing-weight
chromatelopsia
cinematic
clients fund
curved adapter
custron
delates
desugared
Drager volumeter
dusty gas
dweebettes
evening-primrose family
fault secure
fire-water tube boiler
flower diagram
fuss-ball
gasoline generating set
genned
Gosheim
Greater Armenia
greenspaces
Heist-op-den-Berg
hematopoieses
higherer
hinge tooth
horizontal development
horsejockey
hyperphenylalaninemia
indium complex
internal least squares
international reserve ease
inverse emulsion
ixtoc
knee joint girth
knick-knacks
lanesborough
lever arm
main culprit
main storgae dump
mast gene
mechanismic
mechano-
melburnians
Microbrachy
moppable
mouldy-chaps
nerve function measurement
nose-to-tail
not all it is cracked up to be
obboes
obligatory treaty
paragraph loop
partial cargo
phenol metabolism
photographic transmission density
pointer-and-scale instrument
ponzaite
readertyper
recirculators
Recycle mark
releasings
roach stomper
rubber belt track
Schalkau
sensitivity data
slow sleep
spheric casing
streetsweepers
struggle for survival
summary object interchange format
super absorbent
superior femoral septum
Synotis hieraciifolia
talk twenty to the dozen
Tephorin
thallium(i) picrate
thermosynthesis
topartron
transmethylase
traveling-wave
ulysses grants
univocally
us ga
wagon loading elevator
yash