ESL杰夫的一天 第66期:工作 休息和吃午饭讲解(4)
时间：2018-12-28 作者：英语课 分类：ESL杰夫的一天
英语课
There's a different expression, to start in on someone — on a person, 这里还有一个不同的表达，“to start in on someone（a person）”，
and if you start in on a person — on your brother, on your wife, 如果你“start in on a person（你的兄弟，你的妻子）”，
that means that you are criticizing 1 them — you're saying something bad — something negative about them. 意思是你正在批评他们，你正在说他们的坏话。
When I was younger, if I didn't do my homework, which was often, my mother would start in on me, meaning she would criticize 2 me. 我年轻的时候，如果我不做作业，那是常有的事，我妈妈就会“start in on me”，意思是她就会批评我。
"Jeffrey, do your homework!" The only person who calls me "Jeffrey" is my mother. “杰弗里，做你的作业！”只有我妈妈会叫我“杰弗里”。
Back to our story, I said that my phone rang and it was "my project manager, Julie." 言归正传，我说我的电话响了，是“我的项目经理朱莉”打来的。
The manager is the person that is in charge of a certain group of people — someone who is the boss, 经理就是管理特定人群的人，就是老板，
and a project is just a set of things for you to do, usually related 3 to each other. 而项目就是一系列需要你做的事，通常这些事情互相关联。
Well, my project manager, who's like my boss, "asked me to come in for a conference call with our head office." 那个，我的项目经理，她就像我老板一样，“通知我参加我们总部的多人电话会议。”
A conference, "conference," call is a telephone call with three or more people. 电话会议（conference）是指三人或三人以上的电话会谈。
And, that's very common in American business and in international business to have a conference call so more than one person can talk on the telephone. 而且，电话会议在美国企业和跨国企业中极为普遍，这样多个人都能进行电话交谈。
1 criticizing
v.评论，批评( criticize的现在分词 )
- He committed the cardinal sin of criticizing his teammates. 他犯了指责队友的大错。
- She's always criticizing her husband for being sloppy. 她总是指责她的丈夫做事马虎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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