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】


Tom和一位美国同事将要代表公司去参加一场商务谈判,是否能像预想的那样拿下这个项目大家谁都不知道,他们尽全力,做好了准备工作,制定了一套方案,可是谈判前半小时的时候,Tom突然说他想到了更好的方案,要求修改原来的方案。美国同事不耐烦地说:Don't rock the boat! Things are fine just the way they are.


Don't rock the boat. 别找麻烦了。


rock作动词时,意为“摇晃”,所以rock the boat字面意思就是“把船摇晃”,实际意思就是“惹是生非”。因为船走着好好的,而你却偏要把船晃得东倒西歪,弄不好还会连人带船一起喂鱼去,这不是自找麻烦又是什么?所以rock the boat往往引申为“兴风作浪,使事情不能顺利进行,破坏良好的现状,捣乱”。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin: I find your scheme 1 is not the best, we'd better use another one.

本杰明:我发现你的方案不是最佳的,我们最好换另一种方案吧。


Todd: Don't rock the boat! We have no time! Things are just fine as they are.

托德:别找麻烦了!我们没时间了。事情就这样就好了。

 



n.安排,配置,计划,阴谋,方案,图解,摘要;v.计划,设计,图谋,策划
  • The scheme seems on the surface to be quite practical.这个方案表面上看来似乎很实际。
  • The scheme was a bad egg.计划失败了。
学英语单词
Amakpavé
American Institute of Mechanical Engineers
antityphus serum
Ararats
bassi-rilievi
benzene methylal
bionanomaterials
bonus and welfare fund
bowdlerize, bowdlerized
bowknots
brass plating
buttermilky
campylopus schwarzii
cellulose sulfate
chisel shape insert
chrome ocher
concrete gravel
constant term estimate
cooked shrinkage rate
cooler crystallizer
core eudicot
coreless coil
corporate surplus
corrosion-causing bacteria
crossplies
deintegration
delta bar
diacyl-glycerol
diplomatic prerogatives
do you mind!
ebigite
edge coloring
Festuca tristis
floating signal
Frechet-topology map
genus aphiss
gnostically
go near the margin
gurudwara
hand potato cutter
harbo(u)r boundary
hatch batten cleat
Hemopure
hentoffs
holding register
horizontal centrifugal casting machine
internal cystidium
intrigueries
jaws of death
joachims
L-asarinin
ladle carrier
lifting gantry
longitudinal anastomose
macroeconomic regulation
Malpighian epithelium
maudlinly
Methylisooctenylamine
monodictyphenone
muskier
N-Methyl
Naupada
nested micro definition
non extended
oxydoreductase
pororocas
porous structure
Puccinellia kashmiriana
quasifiltered category
radioracemization
red spritess
reflected refraction
region of quadratic resistance law
registering equipment
repagula
retroorbital
reverse control handle
ridel
Rienza, Fiume(Rienz)
schedule change
service contact
sialagogue
silverstolpe
Sivaslι
solve
soya bean cake
speed bulge
strickly dickly
supply different vitamins
Tanimbars
the plant
the young
THRF
through the length and breadth
two position three way directional control valve
unbalance dynamic
uniqueness of optimum linear filter
us school
vertical split head
waring distribution
wheel-speed
worrals