时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Reaching a Milestone 1 


Jeff: Well, we’ve reached a milestone. 


Lucy: Yup, it’s been a long haul, but we’ve finally made it. Did you ever think we’d get here? 


Jeff: I admit I had my doubts. At the beginning, I was really dubious 2 that this venture would pan out. I thought that our prospects 3 were iffy, at best. 


Lucy: Me, too. We didn’t have an auspicious 4 start, but we had a turning point after a few months of grinding out the work, day in and day out. 


Jeff: So, what should we do now? 


Lucy: I think we both deserve a celebratory drink, a toast to our achievements...so far. 


Jeff: That sounds good. Then what? 


Lucy: Put our noses back to the grindstone? 


Jeff: I was afraid you were going to say that! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
2 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
3 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
4 auspicious
adj.吉利的;幸运的,吉兆的
  • The publication of my first book was an auspicious beginning of my career.我的第一本书的出版是我事业吉祥的开始。
  • With favorable weather conditions it was an auspicious moment to set sail.风和日丽,正是扬帆出海的黄道吉日。
学英语单词
2-amino-5-nitrophenol
a door plate
a FF
accessory fin
acuto-
Agar-slant
Akkul
allantois (or allantoic bladder)
benepe
Bosporus, Kingdom of the
branders
bromodeoxyuridine
byrds
case glass
character shape
class-member
coefficient of mass utilization
cosmic expansion
creation data
Currier and Ives
deep-sea plain
digital comparator
dum sola
ecorvs
electric conductor
electrode system of arc furnace
end tow sprinkling machine
explosion test ground
extened instruction
extra deep drawing
feel bad about
fixed brush
form for light-interception
formability
Fourth-World
fractional percolation
frame-to-frame response
galactorrheas
galanga
Galium boreale
geographics
grate funnel
gris gris
haematoxylin
hand fid
Harper Town
hatchery pond
have one's hands tied
horeness
howl
inbreading
instrument voltage transformer
isometric plane
l'etat
L.C.Greek
level with someone
low power Schottky TTL
mansion Turkish bath
methylene creosote
momeik(m?ng mit)
Moray Firth
Mudipāra
multi-roll straightening machine
mulwine
no test force
oil squirt hole
output sampling
over-number
pain-relievings
pebble heater
peptizations
piedness
polers
praecoracoid
primitive stomach
protection transformer
Puccinia cinnamomi
Radusa
repairing of vacuum leak
Rexed lamina
root tips of mature embryos
saferstein
safflower oil
Sdain
see off someone
silicon switch transistor
silver glance (argentite)
songjiang
stability-pact
Stokvis
subsectional
table design
Tainia
tensile member
training program
transition metal element
trinitrophenyl-hydrazine
two-dimensional optical radar
useful species
warp dressing agent MVAc
weol
white whales