时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街中级英语


英语课

- Good heavens! It’s Kristi!
- I don’t believe it! It’s Marco!
- What are you doing here?
- I’m here on business, the company I work for is holding a conference here in Washdon, what about you?
- Yes, I’m here for work too, look, Marco, I haven’t eaten yet, and I’ve also got to go over a few papers.
- Why don’t we meet at the bar later on? Say, about ten thirty?
Can you manage that?
- Oh, yes, certainly!
- Great! Well, see you later then.
- Hello, Marco, sorry I couldn’t make it earlier, I had all these boring documents to get through.
- That’s alright. I’ve only been here since half past nine. Well, what can I get you to drink?
- I’ll have a vodka and tonic 1.
- A vodka and tonic, please, and another large scotch 2.
- Alright, I’m doing my best!
- So, Marco, you’re not a student any more, obviously.
- No, certainly not! I’m working in the computer industry now, for ECS, Electronic Control and Security, in fact.
- They’re a multinational 3 corporation, their headquarter is in Los Angeles, and they have branches all over the world.
- Yes, I’ve heard of ECS, of course. What do you do for them, then? Are you some sort of computer buff?
- Certainly not! Here, take a look at my card.
- “Marco Benini, Assistant Marketing 4 Manager, Central Italy.” Good for you, Marco!
- I expect you get a pretty good income, too.
- It’s not bad – what’s left of it after I’ve paid tax.
- I thought Italians hardly ever paid tax.
- Ah, no. it’s only the very rich who manage that these days. But tell me about yourself, anyway, what are do up to?
- Well, I’m still working for North German TV. I’m in charge of the News Department now.
- Really? So we both seem to be doing pretty well then.
- Here are your drinks, sir. That’ll be $7.75.
- Put it on my bill, please. The company will pay. They look after their staff, you see.
- Will you sign here, please?
- I’ll put it down as “entertaining foreign clients”.
- I think the barman wants something, Marco.
- Can I have your signature, please, sir? On this bill?
- Here you go.
- Thank you very much, sir.
- Well, here’s to success!
-  Cheers, Marco! How about your private life, then?
- Is there a Mrs. Benini yet, sitting at home making much of spaghetti for her Marco?
- No, I’m not quite ready for that yet, although I’m engaged.
- What does your fiancée?  Do?
- Oh, she doesn’t have to earn her living at all, her surname 5 is Strapieno.
- As a strapieno, the chocolate manufacturers?
- That’s right, her father’s the owner of the firm.
- Good for you! When are you getting married?
- Oh, we haven’t fixed 6 a date yet.
- But it doesn’t mean that …you know…
- It doesn’t mean what?
- It doesn’t mean I can’t have a bit of fun when I’m away on business, if you see what I mean.
- Anyway, how about you, Kristi? You’re against marriage and having children and all these boring old things anyway.
- Aren’t you? Or have you changed?
- It’s not that I’m against it, I’m quite fond of children, but I don’t really feel like having any of my own.
- As far as marriage is concerned, well, the only interesting men I meet these days all seem to be unavailable or uninteresting.
- Oh, really? I hope you don’t think that I’m like uninteresting, I mean.
- Don’t worry, Marco, I’ve always thought of you as 100% interesting and I’m sure you still are.
- You bet! Both available and interesting! I need another drink. How about you, Kristi?
- Yes, I wouldn’t mind. But I was just thinking…
- Yes?
- I don’t really like this bar; the lights are much too bright.
- I know what you mean.
- So why don’t we go to my room, and maybe get something from the mini-bar?
- Nice idea, Kristi.
- Come on, then.



1 tonic
n./adj.滋补品,补药,强身的,健体的
  • It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.这将作为老年人滋补品在市场上销售。
  • Sea air is Nature's best tonic for mind and body.海上的空气是大自然赋予的对人们身心的最佳补品。
2 scotch
n.伤口,刻痕;苏格兰威士忌酒;v.粉碎,消灭,阻止;adj.苏格兰(人)的
  • Facts will eventually scotch these rumours.这种谣言在事实面前将不攻自破。
  • Italy was full of fine views and virtually empty of Scotch whiskey.意大利多的是美景,真正缺的是苏格兰威士忌。
3 multinational
adj.多国的,多种国籍的;n.多国籍公司,跨国公司
  • The firm was taken over by a multinational consulting firm.这家公司被一个跨国咨询公司收购。
  • He analyzed the relationship between multinational corporations and under-developed countries.他分析了跨国公司和不发达国家之间的关系。
4 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
5 surname
n.姓;vt.冠姓
  • Her first name is Sheila and her surname is Kane.她姓凯恩,名叫希拉。
  • Wang is a very common Chinese surname.王是一个很常见的中国姓。
6 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
学英语单词
Actinidia kolomikta
aggregate horse power per production worker
analytic method by index
avestas
Bacillus termo
BB-K8
beaumont-sur-vesle
blueberry root
branching network bravo
buccal margin
Carassius auratus
Chrey Kaong
circulating-pump
clean separation
common-sense method
comparison data
curved faced compact
deforestor
demagogued
derivative random process
display impact line
dual-purpose
Easter Eve, Easter Even
electronic data-processing machine (edpm)
endows with
esrc-
estimated off-block time (eobt)
Euregion
examining operational policy
expanded succession
external heating
fast pick
filemakers
fit to
for trepanning plug sections
freshmanhood
frostinglike
geny
Google Answers
Green's theorem
high energy density
hook and line
incautious
interreciprocal
kinsely
layered coating
Lobi glandulae mammariae
Lyugovichi
main body of oil
Makasar
micro-botnet
microliters
microprocessor based transformer protection
msma
mutual fund prospectus
myringomycosis
nasal inferior quadrant
national leveling network
neutron intensity
nitrophenylarsonic acid
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
nonlinear seismic analysis
Nyssa leptophylla
phenyl valeric acid
pish posh
plung
pneu-vac drier
polishing drum
portable bar
power-on self-test
Procetoken
radiometric dating
raindrop splash
Ramus ilealis
remind sb of sth
Rhabdophaga swainei
selenoproteomes
shaft sump
shell drill
shock jocks
slave trades
sodium p-aminobenzenesulfonate
stay on the sideline
strain gage
subduce
subserviencies
suburban passenger
Syd.
threshings
tilting-type feed steamer
Torikabuto-yama
transaminitis
true aperture
undirected action
Unitarian Universalism
urea fractionation method
user experience time
value of scale division
voidnesses
wedding breakfast
western redbuds
WTS