时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:迷你对话学地道口语


英语课

   Subject: Let’s get it straight.


  迷你对话
  A: The customer promised to sign the contract 1. But this morning he called me and said that he won’t sign it.
  顾客承若会签合同的,但是今早打电话过来说他不想签了。
  B: Why? Is there something wrong? Let’s get it straight.
  为何?出什么问题呢?咱们把事情搞清楚来。
  地道表达
  get something straight
  1. 解词释义
  Get something straight的意思是“把……弄清楚”。用来表示对方讲出一件你感到吃惊或难以理解的事情,你想弄清楚它的真正含义或做进一步的了解,就可以用这个短语。
  2. 拓展例句
  e.g. Sorry that I can not knock off on time. There's a lot of things we've got to get straight.
  对不起,我不能准时下班,因为有许多事情我们需要搞清楚。
  e.g. There must be some misunderstandings 2. Let’s get it straight.
  一定是有什么误会了,我们得把事情弄清楚来。

n.合同,契约,婚约;v.使缩短,感染,订约
  • The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
  • I'm under contract to teach here for one year.我按照聘约要在这里教一年书。
误解( misunderstanding的名词复数 ); 意见不一; 不和; 争执
  • Clear up misunderstandings between the two nations. 消除两国之间的误会。
  • It is impossible to assess the importance of a machine of this sort, for many international misunderstandings are caused simply through our failure to understand each other. 要估计出这种机器的重要性是不可能的,因为许多国际间的误解纯粹是由于相互不能了解而导致的。
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