时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:礼节美语


英语课

  项目主管Donny急冲冲地来找老板Simon,因为公司即将竣工的加工厂突然遇到了麻烦,当地质检官员以建设标准不合格为由,索取贿赂,Simon表示,这个钱坚决不能给。Donny问要怎么办?

D: What would you like me to do?

S: How much does this lowlife inspector 1 want?

D: About 2,500 dollars, sir.

S: Well, I'm going to spend that same amount on lawyers and we're going to sue this guy!

Simon问,那个质检官员想要多少钱。Simon用lowlife来形容此人,lowlife is spelled l-o-w-l-i-f-e, lowlife意思是卑鄙的,下流的。原来,此人要价并不高,只要两千五百美元就能解决问题。Simon决定,就用这笔钱来sue this guy把此人告上法庭。

D: You want to take legal action against him?

S: That's right. Call our legal department and tell them to get a team and get down there.

D: Maybe I can get the on-site manager to record their conversation. Then we'll have evidence.

S: Good idea! But don't forget, our best evidence is our building. It's completely up to standard so if it's re-inspected, anyone can see we are following the law.

D: That's true. The building will speak for itself.

对某人提出诉讼,可以说sue someone, 也可以说to take legal action against someone. Donny建议把跟质检官员的对话偷偷录下来,做为证据,evidence. 不过,Simon强调说,我们的工程才是最有力的证据。因为这一工程完全符合标准, completely up to standard。Donny也说,the building will speak for itself. speak for itself, 无需解释,明摆着的,意思是建筑工程就摆在那里,是最有说服力的证据。

S: And tell the legal team not to cut any corners and to proceed with this case by the book. We are sending a message here that bribery 2 won't be tolerated.

D: Wow, sir! I've never seen you so worked up.

S: Well, I'm sick and tired and I'm not going to put up with this anymore! Let's get this bad guy!

D: I'm on it, sir!

Simon说,让律师们不要cut corners, cut corners意思是偷工减料,一切要按法律上的规定去办,by the book意思是严格遵守法律。Donny从来没见老板Simon如此激动过,I've never seen you so worked up. worked is spelled w-o-r-k-e-d, worked up,是激动的意思。Simon说,I'm sick and tired,在这里,sick and tired不是我又病又累,而是指厌倦了某件事情。Simon还说,I'm not going to put up with this. put up with something,指忍受一件事情。Donny最后说,I'm on it,意思是交给我吧,我这就去办。



1 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
2 bribery
n.贿络行为,行贿,受贿
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
学英语单词
2g
advance from shareholder
air traffic management(atm)
alexander mcqueen
alternative rent
analogue display
apicectomies
artifcial wool
assembling unit
automatic photoelectric titrater
bass drum stick
be in at the kill
benadryls
Bezold's perforation
bichomate
blue-pencil
bootlace worm
bottom ash sluicing water
broiler industry
chlorfenac
colored warp
come descend on the rigth side of the fence
cost after split-up
crossjack yard
cyanmethemoglobin
deep fording
Dehra Dun
dental base acrylic
do-se-do
dpst switch
ear deflector
edmund wilsons
electric pneumatic converter
electric socket
elements in seawater
ercylene
field intensity curve
flexible currency
formal plan
free fall law
fri
garbage carters
Halotrizind
held-up
hellenistically
HLL (high-level language)
hyalellid
interlocking key
ironic fluoride
Kalabahi
keep one's ear to the ground
launching sites
leg half forward
line monitoring tube
loam wall
machine stitches
main grinder table
McCall Creek
microdilatancy
multiple die set
neo-primitivist
nodcoke
optimal plant size
Otago Pen.
peg-legging
piercent
piping crow-shrike
pre-observational
remote computing system log
retilinear current
rips it off
rise and fall clause
SAG (standard address generator)
send somebody down
sextant altitude correction
Shushtar
small-signal analysis
sprayhoods
stibane
String-Oriented-Symbolic Language
supererogators
Sébékoro
tarissa
Tatarbunary
telmateium
tetrapropyl orthocarbonate
tom-trot
Transphosphoribosidase
triple bond
tristour
trivectors
trucker hats
tuckerella pavoniformis
unmaiden
vanful
viscerosomatic
vitry
weedkillers
westmanns
whimp
Winchester quart
Y-branch fitting