迷你对话学地道口语第692期:迅速抓住机会,紧紧抓住机会
时间：2019-03-05 作者：英语课 分类：迷你对话学地道口语
英语课
Subject：We have to jump at the chance.
迷你对话
A: How is your project going?
我们的新项目进展如何？
B: We plan to promote our products while Christmas is around the corner.
圣诞节即将来临，我们计划利用这个机会来促销产品。
A: That is great! We have to jump at the chance.
好极了！我们必须把握住机会。
地道表达
jump at the chance
1. 地道表达
Jump at the chance的意思是“紧紧抓住机会，（迅速）把握住机会”。
2. 拓展例句
e.g. It would seem to me that you would jump at the chance for such a marriage.
照我看这门亲事对你应该是求之不得。
e.g. If they offered me a job in USA, I'd jump at the chance.
假若他们给我一个职位在美国工作, 我一定赶紧抓住机会不放。
e.g. If he offered me a job sweeping 1 out the theatre I'd jump at the chance.
如果他让我做打扫剧场外面的工作，我会欣然应承的。
e.g. Why, lots of rich men would jump at the chance to have a name like that.
哎呀，许许多多阔老都会抓住这种机会，来获得这么个姓氏。
Ps 1：promote products：促销产品 have to：不得不，必须 How is something going？某事进展如何？
Ps 2：around the corner的意思是“即将来临，就要到来”。例如：
This outcome was still just around the corner.
这一结局在当时还是即将来到的事。
When anything goes this well, a major setback 2 can be just around the corner.
一件事过于顺利的时候，很可能不久就会有大挫折。
adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的
- The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
- Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？