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
acid bottle inclinometer
advertise a reward
aerobic retting
allowable soil pressure
antmire
artificial oviduct
asymptotic characteristic
audited volume of transactions
bangweulu swp.
beta-amyloid
blast protection
bus boy
calorimeter of openflow system
click pitch
copper tape
cosmetologists
councillings
Covenant of the League of Nations
crankcases
daily cash balance book
damage control bills
data filtering
delivery seal
development fog
doba
downdraught strand cooling
easy processing channel
electron cyclotron oscillation
Europort
fix-point induction method
fluxions
frazy
fritigern
generic drug
go the way of the dodo
grip-and-grin
Habenaria reniformis
Half ahead!
high performance communication system
honey bell
honeybaked
imprisonment of resonance radiation
international trade multiplier
ISCAD
Lepturus
liquid-vapo(u)r interface
Lysi
Maroboduus
Mary Leontyne Price
meat floss
mechanical stop motion
medialising
metrical operation
moon glow
myburgh
neonatal enucleation
non-forfeiture option
non-spillable
nonadiabatic change
over slept
overall thermal efficiency
overutilized
parietal crest
past expression
paste brushes
permeability-reducing agent
pick up trucks
plated through hole
pole bacteria
polyglanduar
pre-value claims
propyl cinnamate
psittacinum
rationalisms
reef drive
Sans-Serif font
Selukos
shelf-type relay
Silverdalen
single-vane actuator
ski-gear
snap brim
Sněžné
stenner
stonking
styloconic sensilla
tallant
Temirlanovka
thermojunction type
Thermopsis alpina
tive
tube conveyor
turn-over form
two leading shoe brake
vectorial double product
Vimianzo
Wabigoon L.
white-light holography
WMED
woolage
woollen fleece
z marker