时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之商务英语


英语课

Being Territorial 1 at Work


Andy: What are you doing? 


Sita: I’m running some numbers for the new project. 


Andy: I thought that was Delia’s turf. 


Sita: She’s usually the go-to person for this type of information, but I need this info right now. 


Andy: I’d be careful about stepping on Delia’s toes. She doesn’t take kindly 2 to people encroaching on her responsibilities. 


Sita: I know she can be territorial at times, but I’m sure if I explain to her why I’m getting this information right this minute, she’d understand. 


Andy: Okay, but don’t be surprised if she thinks you’re trying to gain control of her little fiefdom. She’s really entrenched 3 and she doesn’t like anyone muscling in. 


Sita: Do you really think she’ll misunderstand my motives 4


Andy: I wouldn’t take any chances. Hurry up and finish what you’re doing, cover your tracks, and get out. With any luck, she won’t think this is the beginning of a turf war. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 territorial
adj.领土的,领地的
  • The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
  • They were not allowed to fish in our territorial waters.不允许他们在我国领海捕鱼。
2 kindly
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
3 entrenched
adj.确立的,不容易改的(风俗习惯)
  • Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.电视看来要在全国广告媒介中牢固地占据头等位置。
  • If the enemy dares to attack us in these entrenched positions,we will make short work of them.如果敌人胆敢进攻我们固守的阵地,我们就消灭他们。
4 motives
n.动机,目的( motive的名词复数 )
  • to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机
  • His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。
学英语单词
accustomedness
acyl cleavage
al mahwit
Alismatineae
aspirator filter pump
audience absorption
baffle column
bale band
ballot-box stuffing
banking industries
branched polyethylene
bronislovas
butyl hydroxy anisol
C-jadeite
cadmium selenide
camtype steering-gear
carbon audit
cedrated
cloud storage SLA
coelestobaryt (strontiobarite)
command and data-handling console
common process tap
compensatory financing
coriander seed oil
corky scab
corneal microscope
corrugation machine
Cyclopent
dam type pouring ladle
dispira cornuta
document description
donkey electron
dual-focusing mass spectrometer
dumb-bell
electronic phototype-setter
enviest
extended binary tree
flotability
Foubert's tests
Gamay B.
genus Vallisneria
grammar class
gynecoiatry
half power points
hiddenmost
hogsheads
indocile
industrial city
Islaam
lectuary
lever movement
lift tackle
limonia (geranomyia) nitida
locality factors
Loreto
megachromosome
megacythere taiwanica
motility
Möng Wa
nasal tube
no matter what happens
non calcareous
non saturating logic
note pads
Owanka
pates
patrist
pentaricinoleic acid
peot
pescitelli
phosphor-
Pig Meat
Polychoira
pregnant stage
pressed metal section
prestige card
prestretch
proportional representation system
prosternal epimeron
pseudoconditioning
redundant development
remote data service
retia venosum plantare
robot problem-solving system
rule of parentheses
screw-down
screwed core plug
sequential probability-ratio test
shi'i
slug tuning
sow in
springvales
strategic planning
structural econometric model
syntax analysis problem
synthetic faults
tail lights
to take down
trigoniulus tertius
universal modular tree
Užava
wheelstatic