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
acinic cell tumor
adsorptionindex
alumy
amido-C-acid
amplitude reflection coefficient
anthems
arithmetic and logic unit data flow
ashen
ask for an explanation
Babar
barwalking
Bernstein
besmiles
Beta-D-Arbutin
birthtime
Blow-Off Top
care delivery
caudaite
charge-rate controller
chlorinated oil
Cladochytriaceae
class e ip address
Clecy
cold-slaw
component of elasticity
connection lug
criminations
derichment
digestive juice
diphtherotoxin
divinyl sulfide
drive test
ecological territory
engraulis encrasicholuss
entrecote
enumerated type
equation of time of abstracts
equivalent uranium capacity
expansional cooling
feedback index
fegg
fexible unit
flared handle
fluorimeter
frictional attachment
hankerson
herdswoman
hotel reservation
i.d
idioctionia
immigration-reform
integral refractometer
integrated infection logic circuit
iosca
Karyamoebina falcata
Lancon-Provence
limiting magnification
magnetically
micropower circuit
miladic
miocardial infarction
moljodol
neutron diffusion current
non naturalistic
non-under command light
not so dusty
nuclear scale
oenantholacton
optical phase deviation
orcheopexy
out-years
overpopularized
PANHEPRIN
percutaneous nephrolithotomy
petroleum dike
Ph.C.
plagued
prattlings
pulse decorder
quasi-traditional
re-identify
Records of Engagement and Discharge
rockover core making machine
salvians
science-writers
servis
spin test
steering-column case
suggerent
TH-1165a
the CAP
Theresa of Avila, Saint
thyroid iodine clearance
to look like a million dollars
tooth punching machine
tri-isobutyl-boron
upper left corner cut card
velocity of water
w.t.s
warm-up factor
window seats
Z-plasty