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和一位美国同事代表公司去参加商务谈判,谈判内容主要由Catherine负责。谈判之前,她做了很多准备工作,但没有足够的经验,她感觉很吃力,便把材料重新审核了一遍,并与同事进行商量。美国同事看过材料后发现论证不够严谨,便说:You can't build the argument on very shaky premises 1


You can't build the argument on very shaky premises. 你不能把论点建立在不可靠的前提下。


shaky本义为“不稳固的,摇晃的”,引申义即“不可靠的,可疑的”;premise是可数名词,意为“假设,前提”,所以shaky premises意思就是“不可靠的前提”。argument是“论点”的意思。build sth. on...意为“把某物建立在……基础上”,相当于on the basis of,based on。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin: Todd, I found your prepareration for the negotiation 2 has some problems. You can't build the arguments on very shaky premises.

本杰明:托德,我发现你为谈判做的准备工作有点问题,你不能把论点建立在不可靠的前提下。


Todd: I know, but I have no choice.

托德:我知道,但我没的选择。

 



n.建筑物,房屋
  • According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定,场内不准饮酒。
  • All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行,不用送到外面去做。
n.谈判,协商
  • They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判,他们的食糖生意成交了。
  • The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
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Acalypha caturus
acrolect
acropsylla (acropsylla) girshami
air tourist
alidochlore
analysis and production
automatic feed-rate control system
barred type pump
be in someone's black books
bottom wire
broadheaths
brooder
chromokinesin
cometographer
computer orphan
connectances
Consturcts
crackleberry
creeping soft grasses
cyders
dakoit
data virtualization
deftness
diffusion molding
dipole moment
drug-uses
electronic cinema
emotivities
ensilage cutter-blower
erythema pudicitiae
Essequibo
excepted
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fiscard
flame failure control
galactosidae
Gambia kino
giga-coulombs
Govǐ-Sümber Aymag
gum inhibiting index
haustra of colon
heckmair
herpes zoster keratitis
honeycomb ringworm
hour mechanism support banking ring
iliosacralis
infratemporal surface
interrogator-responder system
jet ballast tank
juvarra
laccolites
logarithmic viscosity number
mark-up percentage
Mielno
milk the profits
mithramycin
moco cotton
morphogenesis
Neospongophyllum
netpliance
nonuniformly distributive coupler
nozzle outlet gas angle
oxygen breathing apparatus
oxygenizable
ozonoscop
pachyonychia congenita
petrol-depth gauge
pitch diameter of drum
preformatting
Prikaspiyskiy
production supply marketing relation
pyrogallol
rated field current
re-homed
reach the standard
reactants
reversed phase partition
riceballs
roll(ing) mill
rumbling
samedan (samaden)
sanitation cutting
seamless
shellwork
siff
single program/multiple data
slow frequency hopping
Spc3p
start of heading
sugan
Sze Yap
taleteller
target power
TCAM (telecommunication access method)
three problems in greek geometry
timed sequence
total loss cover
tripping coil
tripudiary
unbinding
undelectable
velocitron