时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   bring somebody 1 up to speed 2 on something  给予某人关于某事的最新信息


  今天要学的习惯用语是:up to speed。speed是速度,而这里的up to是提高到某种程度的意思。这个习惯用语来自赛车,驾驶赛车的人必须在引擎加到全速的时候才能把车速加快到最高速度。当然up to speed这个习惯用语是作比喻用的,而且意思往往和速度无关。
  我们通过例子来体会up to speed这个习惯用语的含义吧。这是个销售部主任在跟手下的推销员介绍本公司正在研制生产的一种新产品。
  例句:I want to bring you up to speed on a television 3 set 4 we'll have ready for the market 5 in three months. Please take notes so you'll remember all the new features 6 it offers 7.
  这位销售部主任在向推销员介绍即将于三个月后上市的一种电视机,他要求推销员边听边作笔记,以便把这种电视机所具备的新型特点全记住。
  可见他介绍的就是新产品的特点。这些是即将推销这种产品的人所必须掌握的信息。所以bring you up to speed on a television set意思是告诉你们有关某一个电视机的必要信息。
  这里的习惯说法bring somebody up to speed on something,意思就是“给予某人关于某事的最新信息。” up to speed这个习惯用语前面常常用bring这个动词。

n.重要人物;pron.某人,有人
  • Somebody is using the computer.有人在用电脑。
  • He seems to be somebody.他似乎是个重要人物。
vt./vi(sped,sped,speeded,speeded)加快;飞跑;n.速度
  • The car was running at high speed.汽车急速地向前行驶。
  • We'll never get there if he doesn't speed up. 如果他不快些走,我们一定到不了那里。
n.电视(机) [=TV]
  • Do you often watch television?你经常看电视吗?
  • Please turn off the television.请把电视关上。
n.组合,集合,设定;一套,一副,一局比赛;v.放置,设定;(太阳)落下去
  • He set to with a will and soon finished it.他下定决心做这件事,很快就完成了。
  • The bus set the children down just outside the school gate.公共汽车让孩子们正好在学校门口下车。
n.市场;集市
  • The next market is on the 15th.下一次集市是15号。
  • There is no market for these goods.这些货物,没有销路。
n.特征( feature的名词复数 );特写;[复数]面貌;面貌的一部分(如眼、鼻、口等)
  • Her features had been bloated by years of drinking. 她酗酒多年,已变得面部浮肿。
  • The room still has many of its original features. 房间还保留着当初的许多特点。
n.供应( offer的名词复数 );(通常为短期的)减价;提供物v.出(价)( offer的第三人称单数 );提出;演出;做出
  • The company offers scuba-diving as an add-on to the basic holiday price. 这家公司提供带水肺潜水活动,不包括在基本度假费用以内。
  • The offers for the contract were all in the same ballpark . 本合同的所有开价均在同一范围内。
标签: 俚语
学英语单词
acid solution
amiota (phortica) eparmata
amniotic invagination
augmented network
benighters
beyond a doubt
BrWg
bypass arm
Caistor
called terminal
canard airplane
capital of Turkmenistan
channel-hopping
chase off
Christmas bush
club membership and port of registry
cobaltinitrites
columbia sheep
deferred interest warrant
disk optimizer
dock for joint land and water transport
double hinged swivel wall drilling machine
dpj
edleston
educational managerialics
electron donor-acceptor(EDA)
encephalisicalis subcorticalis chronica
ethynyls
extrolite
facial paralysis in newborn
flash drive
FNMOC
fulfilment house
gather rosebuds
genderlessly
genus anastomuss
ghaf
goldschmidt's law
gray polypody
hang by a hair
harvest strategy
head on situation
head waiter
Helābād
Ilyana
in its true light
inductive loop
inductivism
insulated hatch cover
keelyvine pen
kelvin circulation theorem
leaf weight ratio
M'Cl.
mammoths
mislinks
Mulonga
multipoint access
musculus senhousia
Myroxylon balsamum
natural preserve
network-based
next out
non-mechanical printer
nondepositional unconformity
nonmedicinally
O-R mapping
Onchocerca gibsoni
osterberg
oswego flour
output of power station
palpicil
political view
quaestorship
rate-of-living
recirculations
recurrent process
reduction admittance matrix
regenerative principle
representee
saturation pressure
segathy
self-hatred
sense of sight
shared values
silver-bush
spontaneous imitation
studies on some in dications of
sulphanylureas
The best of it is that
tidal-current tables
trichomoniasis intestinalis
turmoiling
unio douglasiae taiwanicus
unsuperfluous
urban crawl
Verbal Handcuffs
videocube
vig
wiltshire (wilts)
wire buff
wulsin
zafar