时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:常春藤生活英语


英语课

Dialogue A

Seth and Fran are meeting for lunch.

Fran: Congratulations on the new job.

Seth: Thanks! I'm really excited about it.

Fran: What are you going to be doing?

Seth: I'll be working in sales. The hours are flexible and they say I can earn a lot of money easily.

Fran: That sounds too good to be true.

Seth: I think I will like this job. Please don't be a wet blanket.

Fran: I'm sorry. You're right. We're here to celebrate.


赛斯跟法兰正碰面吃午餐。

法 兰:恭喜你找到新工作。

赛 斯:谢谢!我真的好兴奋喔。

法 兰:你将要做什么?

赛 斯:我会在业务部工作。工时弹性,而且他们说我可以轻轻松松就赚很多钱。

法 兰:听起来好到令人难以相信。

赛 斯:我觉得我会喜欢这份工作。请别扫兴了。

法 兰:对不起啦。你说的对。我们来这里就是要庆祝的。


Dialogue B

Seth and Fran meet for coffee a week later.

Fran: What's wrong, Seth? You seem a bit down.

Seth: I am concerned about my new job.

Fran: Why? You said it would be great.

Seth: I know, but we had orientation 1 last week and I didn't like anything I heard.

Fran: What do you mean?

Seth: For example, I have to buy a lot of the company's products before I even start working.

Fran: That sounds fishy 2 to me.


一星期后,赛斯跟法兰碰面喝咖啡。

法 兰:赛斯,怎么啦?看你似乎有点沮丧耶。

赛 斯:我很担心我的新工作。

法 兰:为什么?你说过它会很棒的。

赛 斯:我知道,不过我不喜欢我们上星期新进员工训练里听到的任何事。

法 兰:你的意思是?

赛 斯:举例来说,我还没开始工作前就必须买一大堆公司产品。

法 兰:听起来还蛮可疑的。


Building Your Vocabulary


1.flexible a. 可变通的,灵活的

Our schedule is very flexible because we are on vacation.

我们现在在度假,所以我们的行程很有弹性。


2.down a. 情绪低落的,消沈的

I feel so down. I need someone to talk to.

我觉得好沮丧。我需要找人聊聊。


3.fishy a. 可疑的

Brian's fake 3 smile looked fishy.

布莱恩假惺惺的笑容看起来很可疑。


Phrases for Learning 4


1.wet blanket  扫兴的人

While we were talking about the party, Bill kept being a wet blanket.

我们在谈派对的事时,比尔一直扫我们的兴。


2.a bit + 形容词  有点……

The purse is a bit expensive for me.

这个皮包对我来说有点贵。


3.be concerned about...  担心……

Joe is concerned about the math test later.

阿乔很担心待会儿的数学考试。


参考字词


1.congratulations n. 恭喜,祝贺(恒为复数)

2.orientation n.(为熟悉新工作的)培训;准备


Enjoy Box


求职停看听


失业率不断攀升,刚踏出校园的学生一出社会就面临艰困的就业环境。在僧多粥少的市场推波助澜下,不肖之徒紧抓着求职者的弱点,乘隙而入,一般求职大众不可不防。当一个人急着谋得一职时,往往较为缺乏沈稳而理性的态度,更何况一些居心叵测的职缺,都会用诱人的糖衣加以掩饰。例如坊间很多征人广告,以『兼职,高奖金』、『免经验,月入数万』、『无须甄试,立即上班』等幌子大肆吹嘘,实不宜贸然应征。此外,社会上最常见的伪装征人伎俩,莫过于老鼠会的推广手段。


其实只要从广告字眼及征职者的口中就可分析真伪,像上述『兼职,高奖金』等噱头,大多是老鼠会的骗人伎俩。除了这些耳熟能详的招数外,近年来职场的新陷阱也层出不穷,例如『预缴万元保证金,加盟创业,月回本』、『家庭代工,按件计酬』、『新兴网络购物公司』等。有些甚至假借公家机关名义,要求预缴保证金才会介绍职业。为了不要成为冤大头,应征工作时要牢记『不支出,不购买,不签字』的三不原则,也不可留下身分证或驾照等证件正本。其它凡是需要缴费受训或先购买物品者,都有可能是陷阱,求职者务必特别小心,以防受骗。


Tips In Use


You seem a bit down.

(看你似乎有点沮丧耶。) 


1.本句中,"a bit"作副词用,表『有点』的意思。

a bit = a little bit = somewhat 5 = a little


It's a bit hot today.

= It's a little bit hot today.

= It's somewhat hot today.

= It's a little hot today.

(今天有点热。) 


2.此外,"a bit"也等于 slightly,但 slightly 较为正式。


Bob is a bit serious.

= Bob is slightly serious.

(鲍伯有点严肃。)



1 orientation
n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
  • Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
  • The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
2 fishy
adj. 值得怀疑的
  • It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
  • There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。
3 fake
vt.伪造,造假,假装;n.假货,赝品
  • He can tell a fake from the original.他能分辨出赝品和真品。
  • You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.你可以很容易地编造一个借口而不与他一同外出。
4 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
5 somewhat
pron.一些,某物;adv.多少,几分
  • The cake we made was somewhat of a failure.我们做的蛋糕不大成功。
  • The two office buildings are somewhat alike in appearance.这两座办公楼在外形上有点相似。
学英语单词
access manager
acquired immune deficiency syndromes
adiabatic curve
ailurophiles
amplified interpretation
Ant-Vireo
Antonia
atomic angular momentum
attachment flange
automatic bypass valve
babyishly
baitshops
Bembridae
bemeant
Blastocladiales
censor out
ciprofibrate
colour-serjeant
comb ... hair
concho-grass
crinkley
daemonophobia
Decaspermum esquirolii
Dryopteris fragrans
eaved
Europa, Pta.de
evaporator strip holder
farras
ferroprotoporphyrin
froth flotation
fuddling
full wave rectifier
genus Placuna
grease pits
half-height drive
have someone's guts for garters
Hawtrey, Mt.
holes in pattern
in-thing
indirect discrimination
indirect-arc furnace
istake measure
japao
katsuwonus pelamiss
keramite (mullite)
license plate
longbeards
lounge around
manual removal
marjayouns
meet sb halfway
methyl p-methyl benzoate
model following
mucopolysaccharide-N-acetylneuraminylhydrolase
none-kin
nonsonorous
odd moment
offskip
oil flinger
on my case
otelo
pancratic lens
Periyār R.
perpetuum mobile of the first kind
piledriver
pole jumps
product introduction
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pulse-phase system
quarion
REA Rural Electrification Administration
recursive descent parser
scabricola ocellata
scheduling model
schlottmann
scurfy
sealing effect
secondary homonym
secondary metal
self-operated control valve
sociology departments
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sridevi
standard hour system
statutory assignee
styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer
sufferances
taper thimble
thin-layer chromatogram
transmission-utilization ratio
trintignant
tubular(tracheal)sound
two-pence
underutilize
unheled
V and T
vapo(u)rizability
Vicia tenuifolia
wagon control computer
wire rope detector
year dot
zabras