时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:凯瑟琳升职记


英语课

【情景再现】


Catherine所在公司过去一年一直业绩可观,信誉攀升,深得消费者信赖,而且在国内已经小有名气。近日,该公司着手策划新的开发投资项目。同事们各个信心百倍,一直昂扬,美国老总也打趣道:We are shoo-in.


We are shoo-in. 我们是常胜将军!


shoo的本义是“发出嘘声”,此处shoo-in的说法最早起源于19世纪20年代,当时在美国的赛马运动中,人们用shoo来表示“朝指定的方向驱赶动物”。比赛中,除了一位骑手外,其他不诚实的参赛者都有意控制马的速度,结果还是那位骑手获胜。此后人们就把这种比赛的冠军称为shoo-in,现在引申为“十拿九稳的取胜者”,即“常胜将军”。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin: We have achieved a lot from last several projects. How is the new one going?

本杰明:过去的几个项目我们做得很有成效。那个新项目进展如何呢?


Todd: Very well. There is no way we can loose. We are shoo-in.

托德:很好啊!我们不会输的,我们是常胜将军嘛!

 



学英语单词
administrative records
advertising age
ageing tower
alar bone
Anemonine
back-flip
Barcadera
based integer
bibliofilms
botrytis elliptica(berk.)cooke
build-your-own
cartographic compilation
chain hydrocarbon
charity-school
class secretary
comether
cornifer
critical coupling
crossing point
Cydia inopinata Heinrich
deny sb sth
derogatori ness
devote one's attention to
dry-process
elementary organic paint
firm price
flash steam generator
fonz
garcilasoes
Gleason score
gyrospasm
Hasvik
hit testing
hydraulic double-action jack
in hiding
inadmissible testimony
Insolvency risk
interference channel
isoamyl acetate
job methods
knorringite
lachnopterus socius
Lindesnäs
lipotropic fsctors
mainspring
material aging laboratory
Mimulus tenellus
multivalued logic
Muragarazi (Malagarasi R.)
Musculus brevis
nucleoid (piekarski 1937)
nychte
ocean dumping
oil-revenue
onion skin architecture
optical disc drive
osterberg
Ouachita County
Pickwick L.
plastered wood-lath ceiling
pocket diary
power initiation
prognostic formula
Propole
rachiometer
radicals
relational data file
requests for proposals (rfps)
Rokitansky nodules
ronghage
rotate left digit
rununit
seafloor bearing capacity
seaquakes
simultaneous titration
smirkish
sodium paratungstate
soft-finned
solar scarlet
spedrin
stone arch bridge
system contorl centre
tab order
tamarix elongata ledeb.
temperature fall
tequila sunrise
timeless existences
top layer
trichromer
trigger industry
tsugaresinol
Ugaki Kazushige
unclearly
unit of flow
upward-moving dispersed solids
user correlator
vaguely remember
vowel points
well-consenting
wood brace bit
work-board