时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之商务英语


英语课

Being Territorial 1 at Work


Andy: What are you doing? 


Sita: I’m running some numbers for the new project. 


Andy: I thought that was Delia’s turf. 


Sita: She’s usually the go-to person for this type of information, but I need this info right now. 


Andy: I’d be careful about stepping on Delia’s toes. She doesn’t take kindly 2 to people encroaching on her responsibilities. 


Sita: I know she can be territorial at times, but I’m sure if I explain to her why I’m getting this information right this minute, she’d understand. 


Andy: Okay, but don’t be surprised if she thinks you’re trying to gain control of her little fiefdom. She’s really entrenched 3 and she doesn’t like anyone muscling in. 


Sita: Do you really think she’ll misunderstand my motives 4


Andy: I wouldn’t take any chances. Hurry up and finish what you’re doing, cover your tracks, and get out. With any luck, she won’t think this is the beginning of a turf war. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 territorial
adj.领土的,领地的
  • The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
  • They were not allowed to fish in our territorial waters.不允许他们在我国领海捕鱼。
2 kindly
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
3 entrenched
adj.确立的,不容易改的(风俗习惯)
  • Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.电视看来要在全国广告媒介中牢固地占据头等位置。
  • If the enemy dares to attack us in these entrenched positions,we will make short work of them.如果敌人胆敢进攻我们固守的阵地,我们就消灭他们。
4 motives
n.动机,目的( motive的名词复数 )
  • to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机
  • His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。
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alkons
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anchorage block
andaluz
anti management
artists primaries
automatic data digitalizing system
axial surface
Baco, Mt.
bacterial discolouration
bacterotropin
barograph trace
bartholet
bedright
blow-down drum
c-phone
carrier buffer
changeable message sign
class act
climb down
colombire
cumulative provisions
Deiters cell
delivery of assistance
domesday
doubly clad optical fibre
elector's certificate
extramutochondrial
fairness and justice
Fernworthy
fiber cement
flexible sprocket-wheel pulverizer
fob railroad cars
framed soap
genus sagittariuss
groundrent
GV (governor valve)
haser
have a memory like a sieve
Hefke-Turner sign
horizontal continuous rotary cooker
Houghers
hydraulic control rod drive system
immediate character
just right
Kavīr Kūshk
kirkward
Koeppe nodules
labeur
ladder winch
Little Dipper
lower labial frenum
matalikko
Mayer process
microsetella norvegica
multivalued logic simulation
mussaul
nanoassemblers
next night
nitched
nonmarketable
olavides
ordure
paragymnopleurus melanarius
peroxy-nirtrate
proportional charges
Puccinia exhausta
quercypsittid
recrystallizatuon
red - hot poker
reference database
roentgenographic localization of unerupted tooth
Rubus cinclidodictyus
ruptive
sample current voltammetry
satinises
scarlet fly-cap(amanita muscaria l.)
scintillometers
scleradenitis
secure currency
siphon-recorder
slate roof
slow lanes
som tom
sonancy
spring loaded shedder
star reticle
strongylura leiura leiura
substation automation system
subtenolin
subvolumes
switching control pilot
system standard format sequential file
telegraph operater
tertiary triangulation
thebainone
time-constant
turbulent skin-friction coefficient
universal evolution criterion
unpurchased
untitled
water lubricating