时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Josey: Hello, I’m Josey Kim.



Curt 1: Hi, I’m Curt West. Thanks for agreeing to meet with me.



Josey: You mentioned on the phone that you can help us get that government contract we’re bidding on, is that right?



Curt: Absolutely. I’m sure I can be of service to your company and secure that contract without too much difficulty.



Josey: I appreciate your confidence, but can you tell me more about how you plan to do that?



Curt: I think the less said the better. Let’s just say that I have friends in high places.



Josey: I’m not sure I understand you.



Curt: Come on, you know how business is done on Capitol Hill. If you line the right pockets, it’s not difficult to pull some strings 2 to get what you want.



Josey: Are you suggesting that our company use bribery 3 to get preferential treatment on our bid?



Curt: I’m simply saying that backroom deals are business as usual in the government.



Josey: If you’re suggesting that we hire you to do influence peddling 4, I can tell you now that we’re not interested. Corruption 5 may be rampant 6 in government, but we’re not willing to do anything unethical to get a contract.



Curt: Suit yourself, but without somebody like me doing your dirty work, there’s no way you’re going to win that contract.



Josey: That may be, Mr. West, but that’s a chance we’re willing to take.





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



adj.简短的,草率的
  • He gave me an extremely curt answer.他对我作了极为草率的答复。
  • He rapped out a series of curt commands.他大声发出了一连串简短的命令。
n.弦
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
n.贿络行为,行贿,受贿
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
忙于琐事的,无关紧要的
  • He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes. 他的工作是上门推销抹布和刷子。
  • "If he doesn't like peddling, why doesn't he practice law? "要是他不高兴卖柴火,干吗不当律师呢?
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
adj.(植物)蔓生的;狂暴的,无约束的
  • Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
  • You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
学英语单词
agricultural emulsifier No.600
annual allowance
ash colour body
atomic resonance line
bathygadus garretti
cerellatron
cessationist
character display unit
character flaw
combining tee T
crune
decemvirates
decrescendoed
dial phones
dicriminalize
dictyostelids
disarthrosis
dome nut
dominant product
door widely open
drilling platforms
duck gizzard spiced
Eschau
family Liparidae
farysia olivacea
five-tire car
fore-slow
frame drum
genus sclerodermas
Google Alerts
grass-earth
Gross-Hehlen
gutter market
heading axis
heater cathode leakage
helicosporium nematosporum
Hiburi-shima
holder in due corse
instrumental roles
invoice outward
Inzegmir
iwconfig
Jack Pudding
keratolysis neonatorum
Lahmu
lay emphasis up on
liquid-gas distributor
liquor pericardii
locking ring mount
logarithmic unit
Lottigna
lubricating compounds
macrophthalmus serenei
Manari
monoeciously
nafi
native-americans
no bit
nonformalizable
nonprecise
oil supply line
open-cell foam
operating earning rate
over-riding
periblems
pit working line
point-focused electron gun
pointing control
prehepaticus
primary local membr-ance
production break
promulging
Put you in mind
restabilization
rub someone's nose in it
russian monetary units
scopulary organelle
secondin'
selection of stars
sketchball
slimline type
small and medium-sized enterprise
specification statement
stator ring
Suiko
sulphuricacid
supplementarity
tabular
tele-robotics
televisings
toplin
toxophilic
transitological
treble agent
trutch
twibit
uncorporated
USDAW
wassenburg
wicked problems
wild oat grasses
wing-handed