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 gross medley of...
alpach
american chemical society
astrion
aylesworth
Barmy Army
behavio(u)r genetics
black lenbane
brightmail
bronzebacks
builders' tea
CFS to CY Service
channel conductance
charities organization work
chestnut tree
christer
chronological series method for runoff regulation
circular gas chromatography
clasp knife
coracoscapular
countryfolks
craniologically
cubicula
Da Gama, Vasco
deployabilities
dilator pharyngealis
earwormy
eenie
elegiac couplet
entirely unexpected
equisetum arvenses
family cicadidaes
fayols
federal coordinating officer
fellow member
femshield
fiducial confidence intervals
fluorinated paraffins
forward commodity contract
fuel regulator valve
glide surface
Glisson's sling
ground angling
health action process approach
heavy-sea-proof type
high temperature coating
hypertexts
i will always
igneous metamorphism
joint restricted frequency list
Keramitsa
kickits
labyrinthodonts
lemus
losings
market-type
Mashona
midgets
more generally
nest of singing birds
nitrided case depth
nonevergreen
nonexistent logical unit number
nonsnow
operating torque
Osborne membrane
overfragrant
paring disc pumping hole
poison sumac extract
postnotums
pseudoeone eyes
rafes
range-mark circuit
rated rotational speed of generator
recording water level ga(u)ge
REMT
restoring yang
restoringly
reversing safety interlock
Rowland, Henry Augustus
secondary
shunted condenser
snake hole
snuff box
stairmaster
starting characteristic curve
State Courts
stilicho
storage cluster
sulfurised
super-centenarians
tactical deception group
taimyrite
tempering air
thick-knee
Uspeniya, Bukhta
utility-type undertaking
vakif
victor metal
wire working
zeolitized
Zoxine