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
agar plate method
airplane spray tank
amyotrophies
anarchic, anarchical
anthropic epipedon
anti-racketeering laws
apogamia
application for negotiation of draft under L/C
barreter
barrier filter
battery unit
blenchers
bordering method
Cabezuela
cast flange
cephallexin
chlorine isotope
constant-current circuit
corbetta
crossed arm position
cuneal
curve and fog lamp
deckmen
denture-blank
desmodium velutinum (willed.)dc.
detentes
drying capacity
end-fire antenna
euronext
evaluation of management thought
fenow
field intensity metern
fish population
fixed clip monocable
game-time
gutter drainage
Henneguya
holoptychiids
hot snare
Hunter colour
hydroseleno
inosituria
Intel Hub Architecture
manics
Maokouan Stage
master-slave polling
methisoprinol
microcomputer card cage
mixed rare earth cobalt permanent magnet material
multilevel hierarchical control
multivolume
Nalcrom
nemastomatids
nepticulid
Nitroret
non-market economies
nunquam
oleum aurantii floris
on ... side
Panarukan
paper laminate
plexiglass
pocketchief
postmenopausal bleeding
postorder traversal
power circuit
premonstrance
Pseudosaccharomycetaceae
Pudlak
pulmonary artery pressure
quarter carcass
radwaste discharge inboard
rawalpindi (lawalpindi)
ready strobe mode
retro-bomb
Rhododendron huguangense
rocket plume test
rucca
saccharifying
salient pole generator
sibilous
single end control
skopje
solar cauterization
soulmate
spatial margins to profitability
surphal
tim pyrite
trademark law
trambooze
turning-point
type specifier
unbound task set
vector observation
verruca telangiectodes
volume cargo
washouts
water-curing
weight-space velocity
xylos
xylostromata
zigger