时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Getting Praise and Recognition 


Rene: Hey, look who’s here. It’s the company’s golden boy. 


Bruno: Very funny. 


Rene: I’m not joking. First, you’re recognized at the annual meeting for your work in the company, and then you get a commendation from the city for your volunteer work. I’m basking 1 in your reflected glory. 


Bruno: I didn’t ask for either honor, as you well know. I’m not a glory hound. 


Rene: Yes, and that’s what makes it even more galling 2. You don’t have to go seeking your glory; it comes to you. 


Bruno: Knock it off! I like praise as much as the next guy, but I’d rather not be in the limelight. 


Rene: I know. You’re exceptional and you’re modest about it. You’re the perfect guy. You leave us mere 3 mortals in the dust. 


Bruno: I’m leaving. I know you love giving me a hard time, but remember this: I give as good as I get – and I have a long memory! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 basking
v.晒太阳,取暖( bask的现在分词 );对…感到乐趣;因他人的功绩而出名;仰仗…的余泽
  • We sat basking in the warm sunshine. 我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。
  • A colony of seals lay basking in the sun. 一群海豹躺着晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 galling
adj.难堪的,使烦恼的,使焦躁的
  • It was galling to have to apologize to a man she hated. 令人恼火的是得向她憎恶的男人道歉。
  • The insolence in the fellow's eye was galling. 这家伙的傲慢目光令人恼怒。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
3 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
学英语单词
Aceta-Gesic
adhesive seal
affective forecasting
air gage
al mansurah
anorthoneis excentrica
any one location
armsa
armycontractor
as weak
Bacchus fruit
badge out
balarat
Baldwin,Stanley
basic parameters
basket weave cloth
beef jerky
boated
Bramhapuri
brizes
byala reka
capacitance measuring tester
characteristic homology class
charge oneself with
claw hammer black enamelled
common grafting
consumable electrode cold-mold arc melting
contend
converging flow into main channel
cooling water outlet and inlet
croquetlike
custom clearance
DDATP
dead-weight capacity
disavow
distress procedure
elimination of intercompany ownership
escape scot scot-free
faulty fusion
four primary tastes
grampies
half-spinor
harker lines
haywain
holy week
impugning
interchange ability and replacement
intestinal thelohanellosis
Khalkhalah
kick turns
Klieglight
l'immoraliste
Labyrinthus vestibularis
line disconnecting switch
logline
long-tailed
maximized
method of synchronization
mini-gyms
multimode behavior
neengagement order
nickel-ore
nodule disease
non uniform encoding
PARADOXORNITHIDAE
parallel parts
perforafion
ph (test) paper
phase-locked system
piezopolymers
pragmatically
puritans
put someone's back up
qualified steel
Rangwe
rebound strongly
rechallenging
Rheinfall
rostrater
rotatography
rushers
saniaster
sedimentation intensity
seggers
shear pin splice
sight glass with nozzle
skin-groups
slowh
snobbiness
sound breakdown
spiny talinum
stoutmire
subfranchising
supernet
sweep range
synthetic sand
tailless trolley car
Uknet
uncheated
verbalist
wavelength multiplexing
wortmannin