时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场社交


英语课


SCENE
A  吉娜去她老板的隔间看他 


【我就不拐弯抹角了】


 


Zina:  Vince. We're both busy, so I'm not going to beat around the bush. I need a 1) raise.


吉娜:         文斯。大家都很忙,我就不拐弯抹角了。我要加薪。


 


Vince:         I can't do that, Zina. You know I can't.


文斯:         办不到,吉娜。你知道我无能为力的。


 


Zina:           2) Bull. I're done my 3) research. I know you still 4) control more than 65 percent of InfoKing 5) options.


吉娜:         胡扯。我做了研究。我知道你仍掌握了资讯王百分之六十五以上的股权。


 


Vince:  Who told you that?


文斯:         谁跟你说的?


 


Zina:  That doesn't matter. I want 6) at least 4 percent.


吉娜:         那不重要。我少说要百分之四。


 


语言详解


 


A: I have done extensive research on the French Revolution.


    我对法国大革命做过广泛的研究。


 


B: Then you must have been to Paris.


    那你一定去过巴黎。


 


beat around the bush拐弯抹角】


 


beat around the bush原意是指猎人在打猎时,先在草丛附近拍打,以让鸟类猎物受惊而现出踪迹,引申出藉由迂回的方式,不针对问题回答,犹如中文里的拐弯抹角


 


A: Stop beating around the bush, and tell me what you want.


     别拐弯抹角,告诉我你要什么。


B: I want a divorce.


     我要离婚。


 


A: What did Tom want to tell you?


     汤姆那时想要跟你说什么?


B: I'm not sure. He kept beating around the bush.


     我不确定。他一直在拐弯抹角。


 


1raise  (n.) 加薪


2)  bull  原意是公牛,这里是用作 bullshit 委婉说法。


3)  research  (n.) 研究


4)  control  (v.) 控制


5)  option (n.) 选择,此指股票选择权


6)  at least  至少,起码



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abbey-laird
accuracy in calibration
active negativism
agrotype
all relay coded interlocking
ancient sand dune
audifier audio
avoyde
azulene
bacterial mutation
bean blight
Blaxall's culture-medium
blind department
blotchwork
BN-52021
broadish
bunt jigger becket
butt buddies
Calamospora
Campylium
Celocurin
center squares
Chernavskaya
cracklike
crank slotter
cyclopia
decimal metric system
deferrers
din speed rating
drawing worker
Dunford integral
duple measure
elbow sleeve
electric energy meter
electrolytic copper foil
farm production cost
frickin'
get left
glass reinforced concrete
greens fee
grievousest
guard-boat
heavy whipping creams
heterolysosomes
higher order
hyperpanchromatic
in-house communication system
incruciated
instant replay
isblank
isomorphous system
kinetic effects
Krause's ligaments
lower in quotation
melanofloculation tests
methylphenylcarbinol
montology
motley crews
Munsee
neo-soul
neomeris phocaenoides
newsgator
Niovel
non-isotopic
non-synchronous initiation
OB programme circuit
occacion
Oeselgem
oxyferryls
parish-hadley
park-and-ride
passive immunization therapy
perplexus
photopolymerizing
platemark
pneumonias
point-contact varactor
pole-change starter
radiopticon
resistance management
saper
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sentimentise
sex rate
snakehead (fish) (channa argusmaculata)
solegnathus hardwickii
spatial domain test
spring-control
stigmatocythere costa
Stockhausen
straight tube economiser
subparse
thermopair
truckload
Tsentral'no-Tungusskoye Plato
two-channel audio
us cast
vertical member
Vicia angustifolia
voltage controlled-oscillator
VxFS
wool pitch