时间:2019-02-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语播客-EnglishPod


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 A:    Hi Isabel! You wanted to see me?


 B:    Yes Anthony, come on in. Have a seat.


 A:    Is everything okay? You seem a bit preoccupied 1.


 B:    Well, Anthony, this is not going to be an easy con-

       versation. The company has made some deci-

       sions which will have a direct impact on your em-

       ployment.


 A:    Okay...


 B:    I don’t want to beat around the bush so I’m just

       gonna come out with it.  We are going to have to

       let you go.


 A:    What? Why? I mean... just like that? I’m fired?

 B:    I’m sorry but, to be honest, you are a terrible em-

       ployee!


 A:    What! I resent that!


 B:    Anthony, you were caught making international

       calls from the office phone, you called in sick in

       eight times this month and you smell like alcohol!



adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式)
  • He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事,没注意到有什么不对。
  • The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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active passive immunity
advise about
AFCAP
alvaroes
Appraisal Right
argument matching
Bacillus thuringiensis
benalla
brand mapping
C battery cabin
capillary membrane module
circuit crest working reverse voltage
cysticorrhaphy
diddley-shit
double current method
Esperanza, I.
familist
Finney
fissocantharis taoyuana ilanensis
Flickingeria concolor
fluid system
fluorescent lamp
fossilization(fossilification)
gold-greens
gray rami
gripless
herborisations
high initial response
hiortdahlite
hoop-drop relay
howling
immune neglect
intercommodities
Karitaina
key row
knieps
laffin
Laki
lamina verticalis
Latter Lammas
laugh full mouth
left tail decreasing
Liapunov's theorem
liberum tenementum
lightning protected cable
like better
line end control key
logarithmic velocity profile
logical unit
long-coats
Lysimachia albescens
Lāliān
males-to-females
melon sleeve
meridional structural system
navy bean
Nolichucky
not have two pennies to rub together
odeo
pedelecs
phenazones
picado
pierre simon de laplaces
poisson solid
polystichum falcatum
positron emission
prayingly
presstitutes
proflorigen
pulling mechanism
purgy
racing aeroplane
rami intestinales (n. vagi)
reclaiming line
reprogrammers
repurchase of obligation
return and allowance
revolutions per unit time
richness class
right iteration
sabulosity
salt bottom
scalar invariant
scratchbacks
self-organizing sensing
Severnyy, Zaliv
shoestring sand trap
sidewall block
sly puss
Southern Sudanese
stagger cut press
Stearin(e)
strategic posture
subglottis
telephone-line concentrator
toad-cake
tridecapeptides
tropical
two level laser
uvulae
vitriolled
water spreading