时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场社交


英语课


SCENE② C  艾文与玛莉在意式浓缩咖啡机前碰面 


【她疯了不成?】


 


Mary:  There's just one 1) catch. Zina asked me to let you know.


玛莉:         只是有个难题。吉娜要我让你知道。


 


Elvin:  What?


艾文:         什么?


 


Mary:  She 2) promised that we'd be ready to start 3) tracking the Stars.com web site by the end of next week.


玛莉:         她承诺我们会在下星期结束之前,准备好开始监控Stars.com的网站流量。


 


Elvin:  What!? It'll be a 4) miracle if we're ready by the end of the month! Is she crazy?


艾文:         什么!?我们在月底前能准备好就是奇迹了!她疯了不成?


 


Mary:  Yes, I think she is just a little bit crazy.


玛莉:  对,我觉得她是有点疯。


 


Elvin:  Crazy is too kind. 5) Insane 1 is more like it. Nuts! Wacko! Psycho!


艾文:         疯这个字还太仁慈。说是丧心病狂还差不多。神经病!怪胎!心理变态!


 


语言详解


 


A: Do you believe in life after death?


    你相信来生吗?


 


B: No.  I don't believe in miracles.


    不。我不相信奇迹。


 


be more like it.…倒还更贴切】


 


当我们在形容一个人或是一件东西的时候,常常在大家七嘴八舌之后,却还是不够传神,没有点出精髓,这时若你想到了绝佳的形容方法,你就可以用上这个句型...is more like it.……还更贴切。


 


A: Jane is a little shy. 


    珍有一点害羞。


B: A turtle hiding in her shell is more like it.


    说她是缩头乌龟还更贴切。


 


That's more like it.这句类似的话也很常用。这句话的使用时机是当对方的表现终于让你有了满意感觉,你可以用这句话 That's more like it.这才像话嘛。给对方一点小小的鼓励。


 


A:  After ten weeks of ignoring us, the boss finally said he'd give us both a raise.


     在对我们不理不睬十个星期以后,老板终于说要给我们两个加薪了。


B:  Now that's more like it.


      这才像话嘛。


 


1) atch  (n.) 诡计,难题


2) promise (v.) 承诺


3) track (v.) 追踪,监控;此指track the web site监控网站流量


4) miracle (n.) 奇迹


5) insane  (a.) 精神错乱的;其后的几个字都是用来形容此类情况:nuts  (a.) (俚)疯的:wacko (a.) (俚)怪里怪气的;


6)psycho (a.) 心理变态的。



adj.蠢极的,荒唐的,精神错乱的,疯狂的
  • Insane people are sometimes dangerous.精神病人有时非常危险。
  • The letter made her insane with jealousy.那封信使她妒忌得发疯。
标签: 职场 社交
学英语单词
accelerated development of light industry
administrative litigation act
ALTARE (automatic logic testing and recording equipment)
alypum
apcks
Bahan
ballast hoe
Barberino di Mugello
Belbaite
bespitting
bimbles
bissell
bleachest
cost, insurance, freight landed terms
destool
diffuse symmetrical lipomatosis
diffusion path
diplomatic pouch
ditophal
Dixmont
dome of regulator
duration of peaking time
economic confrontation
epibasal
external surface concentration
Fab/ox
fission yield curve
floral nectar
flush-coupled casing
folded thrust
foreign made
formosa snake-head
four squared tool
frequency translator
gage theory
Galois extension
geml
goerz
good neighbourliness
grave dancer
grease swelling
heavy liquid inlet
heterotopic oral gastrointestinal cyst
hypernuclei
Itchen L.
jazz the motor
Jisheng Shenqi Wan
juchonhujang (chuchonhujang)
Kalmia angustifolia
lay someone low
lewre
libbert
library of data
litfin
loiding
long-footed potoroos
lunar module ascent engine (lmae)
LVDEP
lyophilize
makande
mesoscop
Mirandese
monstrative
Moreae
multidimensional array access
N-characteristics
namelist name
naval intelligence processing system support active
neomarxism
netas
non-ionic addition reaction
nonslipping chock
oil separating
paper disk
Physalis alkekengi franchetii
polyorrhymenosis
pregelatinized
production grinding
prunus laurocerasuss
pseudotriploid
registry
Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
restaff
safety earthing
safety-lamp
saunape
scathaches
sclerozone
scuppie
sea-ape
soft fold
surgical gastroenterology
tellem
Terentang, Pulau
the province
tightly coupled system
totta rufercorna
tracheal glands
triturus marmoratus
trotwoods
water power resource
william archer