时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Reaching a Milestone 1 


Jeff: Well, we’ve reached a milestone. 


Lucy: Yup, it’s been a long haul, but we’ve finally made it. Did you ever think we’d get here? 


Jeff: I admit I had my doubts. At the beginning, I was really dubious 2 that this venture would pan out. I thought that our prospects 3 were iffy, at best. 


Lucy: Me, too. We didn’t have an auspicious 4 start, but we had a turning point after a few months of grinding out the work, day in and day out. 


Jeff: So, what should we do now? 


Lucy: I think we both deserve a celebratory drink, a toast to our achievements...so far. 


Jeff: That sounds good. Then what? 


Lucy: Put our noses back to the grindstone? 


Jeff: I was afraid you were going to say that! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
2 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
3 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
4 auspicious
adj.吉利的;幸运的,吉兆的
  • The publication of my first book was an auspicious beginning of my career.我的第一本书的出版是我事业吉祥的开始。
  • With favorable weather conditions it was an auspicious moment to set sail.风和日丽,正是扬帆出海的黄道吉日。
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alum solution
ammonia air fuel cell
bamboo ware
basepath
bear -leading
bulk supply
byombo
cellotetrose
centrifugal mill
choreutis hyligenes
cladding tube expansion
clothespost
coking residue
constant-velocity recording
copper constantan thermocouple
dabber
differential reaction cross section
direct activation
document control
ensure stable yields despite drought or excessive rain
expected value
family teredinidaes
field output transformator
form utility
forward rule based deduction system
Foshay's reaction
fungitoxicities
garrad
GM_among-and-amongst
green brick tea
gun teckle
hard-stone
helpe
hexa-net
hierarchical corporate culture
hydrogen pressure regulating curve
Hyperinvoluted
intelligent simulation support system
investment intermediary
laboratory corrosion testing
large mesh wing
ligamenta interspinalia
low wheel car
lowland white fir
magnetic dips
malignant neuromas
malingers
Maresfield
markup percentage
mens stores
MONOGR
My Documents
mycterophonia
nasal septa
net import
non-specific factors of production
nonfaulty
normal law of composition
other equipment
oversea location
Oyala
p-menthane hydroperoxide
P. B. S.
parafollicular cell
Paspalidium flavidum
pico-becquerels
preengineering technology
prodigal
pseudo disk
quartz-keratophyre
resin binder
Riefensburg
rope block
saipheron
Scantic
Schultze's methods
Schwartze's operation
secondary saline soil
self cooling vane
shit test
soundproof room
speciosity
spezzati
sub hypothesis
sudoral typhoid
sulfur (s)-oxidizing organism
Takahagi
tax reliefs
terminological inexactitude
theoretical hydrodynamics
thermodynamics of surface film
Thutmosis I
tipping ladle
tongued and grooved floor
transit camp
tropical trial
tzarist, Tzarist
UBSO
unh
unmisted
wodanite
young rice seedlings growth