时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Being Unsure and Unready 


Aida: When our bigwigs from the Cleveland office arrive next week, I think we’ll have a lot to show them. 


Dale: I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Giselle told me yesterday that it’s a toss up whether she’ll finish the program she’s working on by next week, but don’t quote me on that. 


Aida: I thought she was already done with it. 


Dale: I think that she’s still tinkering with it because she isn’t 100 percent sure she’s worked out all of the bugs 1


Aida: All right. I hope she gets a move on and fast. I’ll still have Joe’s prototype to show them, right? 


Dale: Well, the last time I spoke 2 with Joe, he said that the prototype is still a work in progress. Whether it’ll actually work is iffy, at best. 


Aida: Are you trying to tell me that we’re not ready for this visit at all? 


Dale: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn’t count on having much to show them, sorry. 


Aida: Then, what am I supposed to do when they want to see the progress on our work? 


Dale: I suggest some fast-talking and fancy tap dancing! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 bugs
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
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acid/neutral
Adangbe
Ageratina adenophora
aggregate reserves
alanylation
alato
authorized auditor
b2c
bimbereke (bembereke)
black medicks
camera-control equipment
capability revocation
chassis cab
clayton
coabltic fluoride
coaxial bolometer
complementary association
conflict-of-laws
cost function
cybercasts
cybernated
Cyclopes didactylus
dash control
dreely
dudly
earlier publication of a patent application
eccentric sensation
Elie Wiesel
fabric slitting
five-thirty
flat chassis
Frant
free-running propeller
ft-L
geosynchronous satellite
germ plasms
get your teeth into something
Hawaii Standard Time
heavity
Hydroilmenite
ICMJE
in line equipment
indentation depth gauge
Japan Shipowner's Association
Jomini
kolar
l'hospital
la massana
large bonito
leg room
Letheringsett
Llancanelo, Salina
lower stay
manual handing
massee
militarylike
moist steam
My Thuy
Nichinan
node pair
non-uniform thermal conductivity
norflexes
obediencer
oil cells
optical fiber losses
orientalian
oxide refractory
PASCAL,Pascal
personal performance
postnatus
potassic-magnesian fertilizer
professore
promovers
prosody
Psychozoic era
quantum indeterminancy
quarter-elliptic spring
residual fuel oil
roller beater
sample distribution of mean
screw shutdown
Seafarers' International Union
Sikandra
skirving
sujud
superior epigastric veins
table of correction
Tamagotchi
tape input
taskmaster
Tateyama
ten-percent
testification
transboys
trimethylcyclohexyl
turquoise blue
underlying geologic formation
unfloored
uterine plugging
ventricular wall motion
welshofer
yellow glaze