时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   商务中充满了像fat cats——有钱有势的人,loan sharks——高利贷债主,和含有其它动物的习语。事实上,fat cats近几年用来形容所有在信贷危机中赚了一大笔的银行家。作为英语学习者,如果你想要你的英语听起来更自然,特别是在和英语母语的人交谈的时候,正确地在使用这些商务俗语很有帮助。


  以下主要集中在我们最喜欢的两种动物---猫和狗。精选出10个习语,一起学习吧~~
  1.Let sleeping dogs lie——不要自找麻烦
  例句: There’s absolutely no point pursuing this issue. We should just let sleeping dogs lie.
  在这个问题上深究没有意义。我们不要自找麻烦了。
  2.Not enough room to swing a cat——没有足够的空间
  例句: You should see my new office, it’s tiny. There’s not enough room to swing a cat!” (In old English, a cat was a whip not a real cat!)
  你真应该看看我的新办公室。太小了。连转身的空间都没有。(在旧式英语里,cat是指鞭子而不是真的猫。)
  3. To be dog tired——累趴下
  例句: I have worked 70 hours this week. I am dog tired.
  我这周工作了70个小时。我都累趴下了。
  4. Let the cat out of the bag——透露秘密
  例句:  Great! George in Finance knows about our new product. That’s all we need. Who let the cat out of the bag?”
  太棒了。财政部的乔治知道了我们的新产品。这就是我们要的结果。谁说出去的?
  5. Go to the dogs——不如过去成功(通常使用进行时)
  例句: That company will go bankrupt if it’s not careful. It’s going to the dogs.
  那家公司要是不小心的话就会破产的。它可能会完蛋的。
  6. To put the cat among the pigeons——惹出乱子
  例句: Sending the most unpopular manager to talk to the team was like putting the cat among the pigeons.
  把最不受欢迎的经理派去和队伍谈话一定会惹出乱子的。
  7. A dog’s dinner or dog’s breakfast——搞砸了
  例句: They made a real dog’s dinner of the website. It’s terrible.
  他们把网站搞砸了。这可太糟了。
  8. To fight like cats and dogs——和某人争吵
  例句: It’s a miracle how Sally and John manage this company. They’re always fighting like cats and dogs。
  萨利和约翰来管理公司真是个奇迹。他们总是吵得不可开交。
  9. Top dog——公司里最重要的人物
  例句: If you want a decision on that, you’re going to have to get it approved by the top dog.
  如果你想要决定这件事,你需要让它得到老板的同意。
  10. More than one way to skin a cat——不止一种方法
  例句: No problem. If we cannot get our proposal through this way, we’ll try something else. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
  没问题。如果这样我们的提议没法通过的话。我们试试别的方法。还有很多方法的。






标签: 商务口语
学英语单词
acroclinium roseums
ad click
alsophilas
amnlae
Angel Falls
angio-ectatic
arithmetical continuum
at the idea of
at.m.
awoman
back entrance
backup bit
bahaa
be rubbing your hands
Candeleda
cast steel plate
centrifugal thrust
chamber-deacon
continuous slab track
core-pulling distance
counted down
cupping room
deep-source nasal congestion
DEPID
diabetic dwarf
disperse policy decision
diurocoris nakabayashii
doctor roll
eleven-page
epidote amphibolite facies
Esperanza, R.
expected wealth effect
fellermelad
financial center
folding flat rack
fumaroid form
Garin Kunini
gear-change
greynesses
hardcore punk
high temperature high pressure dyeing machine
i-douted
idiopathic purpura
indebitum
invoice ledger
Jamaican dollar
jswg
Kigwe
Kristeller expression
Lami's theorem
Mayapple
media gateway control protocol
meta-uranopilite
Minsky's circles
mus manchu
neopro
neutron background survey
non-systemic
off-schedule
Oggenhausen
oral malformation
osho
Oxford Group
oysterbank
phallus impudicuss
phyllactinia actinidiae-formosanae
plant sensing
point contact junction
primary school
Psychidae
reach-me-down
rf knockout resonance
rhizoma arisaematis
rosaniline hydrochloride
saccharinum
sealing strip
segmentum anale
sequential leave
signalling pennant
silvercrest
Star of Bethlehem
stem knee
subpolyhedron
suction gyro
swearing in
temporary lining
tenessee
three-way fuse plug
tigerling
tonic wind
top filling
total budgeted expenditure
Tupinambis
two wheel frame plow
vehicle outfitting
version of tendon and muscle
wasw
werefoxes
wet pussy
width of the workpiece
zinc ferrite