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
?-mercaptoethanol
achievings
additional internal force
advance constant
alimentary organ
anodizing process
any Tom, Dick, or Harry
as welcome as snow in harvest
assets lending
atomic marine power plant
audio response system
balanitis diabetica
blood-brsain barrier
borophosphate
catabolise
cilligen
cognitivists
communication systems routing
commutation notch
complexities in large scale management
consolicine
contra-charge
cresyl
crystal dislocation
cupula of pleura
cutups
dandy horse
disbursing officer
EFDH (equivalent forced derated hour)
everyday use
fattist
field-marshals
film layer
fist-fights
FMTV
forecasting sales
formicating
fullering bar
genus Hylobates
ghoulishly
grafting tool
grammatical formative
guadi powder
gunmetals mount
hair pins
heat resisting skid
individual performance
initial definition
input signal inversion
insurance obligation
its'
Khodjas
lays a foundation
leuk-
lickability
maritorious
mediated digital signature
meltback method
micromelanophores
natural limestone
Nekso(Nexo)
neu rilemmatous
Nobili's rings
nonrapist
obscuridine
order good
oscillatory series
page replacement rule
parity selection rule
pilotage waters
pip-pip
pipe pile
protection sequence
pseudo-offline I-O
PTAs
pugaree
resort of thieves
retrieval centre
rhombohedric
robertons
roseling
runa
scheebergite
Schistomatium
shaft bracket
soponification
stepwise complex formation constant
storage time constant
super great
technical revolution
teloreceptor
unitalicize
universal covering space
unpetrified
unstable atmospheric condition
unsufficienced
wilna
windowmakers
word boundary
WSIA
zeists
zungas