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
a. palatina ascendens
all-wood construction
altinicline
altitude readout
antiapoptic
assistant electrical engineer
Azopolye
Basobismutite
be in a position to
be in petticoats
BIOFLAVONOLDS
blennioideas
bunkers
canandaigua
candleshines
cash tender offer
cast-steel roll
central impact
chandra gupta ii
charging ratio of fire extinguishing agent
checkwise
circumsporozoite protein
Coleus scutellarioides
comfort cooling
confidous
counter indicate
current distributor
data falsification
de-authorising
domestic airline
ege
eighteen-foot
entry locker
FOLED
funding mismatch
gibbering
GOTO-less programming
have someone's blood on one's hands
high level network service
high-speed packer
human renin
hundred-and-forty-fifth
index page
INTELSAT control center
inter centra
kaze
Koerte-Ballance operation
koukou
Laluque
letews
marriages
mass marketer
multiple heading
narcoticizes
necrocracy
nephritics
nonpapists
organic element analysis
ovenchyma
Parental Controls
perihelia
perpending
phenyl phosphate
point condition
porcelain mill
pregap
preregeneration
published reports of companies
pudenda (sing.-dum)
put a human face on
put oneself on record
quaving
rami ovarii
rejection sampling technique
residue of expenditure
restoration premium
rocza
Semen Abutili
Seroden
Seventh-Day Adventism
skid row
sky fog
speakable ness
storias
successiveinduction
sugar cane shoot borer
superstructure line
synchronous culture
tape-trading
tebufenozide
terries
thallium rhodanide
thin layer leaching
too-great
turn the tables on sb
u-ies
unbeautifulness
upmount
Van der Waals
versidyne
wobbegongs
Yabeina