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。
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all over the world
ambidexter
amigo
anti-drug message
ants
archaeometallurgy
arthur holly comptons
bar food
Bermuda Triangle
Bichat's membranae
calcirudite
cantilevel
capillary conductivity
central choroiditis
Chimpembe
cliometrician
colour spectrum
combatively
combo drive
continuous-scan thermograph
counter flood
diacele
dulcy
earth conductivity
energy, kinetic
English system of wet twisting
epibranchial segment
fauxhawk
flenu coal
flexure hinge
florican
galvanisation
Genal, R.
geophysical research vessel
gold bar
government machinery
greyish-brown
half-cordate
have a moan
hepatoglobulin
home confinement
ice removal
ichthyophthirius multifilliis
indolone
industrial interprise
interference suppressor circuit
interlocking electropneumatic
International Rhythmic
It's six of one and half-a-dozen of the other
Johnston I.
Kankakee County
Kentish man
Las Guadalerzas
lead-in-air indicator
legal advantage
lift slack cable switch
lignane
load per meter of track
low temperature dry cell
magnetic recording paper
maker-checker process
Maliseet
manufactured dowel
medium altitude cat
mist printer
mogensenite (titanmagnetite)
musculus dorsalis externi
myofilament
N16 activity
Nakatosa
natural crystal plane
near end crosstalk attenuation
non-politicss
pandanus boninensis warb.
penikkavaarite
piuma
Provisional Frequency Board
Pteroloma triquetrum
quantified economic data
quantum efficiency (quantum yield)
reidentification
retail store
rhizopertha dominica (fabricius)
road transport in underdeveloped country
rooste
run down mill
scabioside
scour the sea of pirates
sealed radioactive material
straight wavefront
surprise piece
sweetwort
the taj mahal
Truce of God
true host
unciform
unsecured liabilities
Updikean
vector power factor
vena thoracicas
water supply riser
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