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
aba al afan
Albertinia
ansamitocin
articulating process maxilla
aul wans
barrel-bag
bentonite (clay)
biocides
bombogenesis
buna-N packing
bursting pressure of tank shell
chess-man
co-trustee
coexistence of transmitters
collip's hormone
compensational
conjugate field
constant density contour
Corydalis multisecta
crena cordis
cultivator shovel
Custer Res.
cyaniding furnace
cycas circinaliss
cylindrical parabolic reflector
donetskaya seymitsa
Dunlop Pirelli Union
electrochemistry of semiconductor
elfred
empty running
Engine half astern!
Epipactis thunbergii
external quicksort
Gentiana dendrologi
Gentochin
get the heels of
hasbarats
heat resistant rubber
heliotridane
hexanoyl chloride
high level thunderstorm
homospores
honourable discharge
inferior vesical artery
infinite mass
INOCELLIIDAE
jet-prop
jigger-mast
Jodiłownik
Judeophile
loading charge
look as if one stepped out one is fresh from a bandbox
luciite
manganberzelite
mating lift
matrilines
medullary trigeminal tractotomy
metal molding
metamours
mucoepidermoid
multipartial
n. zygomaticofacialis
necrophiliac
nonradioactive probe
octopuslike
optimum allocation problem
outs-of-london
pearly nodule
photoallergenic
phragmoceracone
plain cast iron
polypyrene
Poumer
power-fail detect module
prison-leaving team
pseudointraligamentary pregnancy
pyrizidin
radiohydrochemical index
reinforced-concrete sleeper
restokes
Richard Morris Hunt
S twist
saor
sekisanolin
Sendust sheet
skiagraphs
small lymphocyte
stenocephalus
storm lane
swindle of
take an overdose
ternary fuel
three voltmeter method
tuborectal
two-men saw
Tzolkin
ultra filtration
unique feature
varices and hyperemia of the bulbar conjunctiva
West Ridinger
woodpusher
year of the hare