时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:凯瑟琳升职记


英语课

【情景再现】


Catherine所在公司过去一年一直业绩可观,信誉攀升,深得消费者信赖,而且在国内已经小有名气。近日,该公司着手策划新的开发投资项目。同事们各个信心百倍,一直昂扬,美国老总也打趣道:We are shoo-in.


We are shoo-in. 我们是常胜将军!


shoo的本义是“发出嘘声”,此处shoo-in的说法最早起源于19世纪20年代,当时在美国的赛马运动中,人们用shoo来表示“朝指定的方向驱赶动物”。比赛中,除了一位骑手外,其他不诚实的参赛者都有意控制马的速度,结果还是那位骑手获胜。此后人们就把这种比赛的冠军称为shoo-in,现在引申为“十拿九稳的取胜者”,即“常胜将军”。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin: We have achieved a lot from last several projects. How is the new one going?

本杰明:过去的几个项目我们做得很有成效。那个新项目进展如何呢?


Todd: Very well. There is no way we can loose. We are shoo-in.

托德:很好啊!我们不会输的,我们是常胜将军嘛!

 



学英语单词
-ribine
afraid that
against one's better judgement
Ajuin
american footballs
amino-group
analytic family
anisotropic crystal
automatic error-correcting code
baby farms
Barbers Point
bills of particulars
binding upon all parties
bisulcous
brick coffering
bulliat
chloromethyl phenyl ketone
churnalism
Cleome rutidosperma
condensate recovery percentage
congenital arhinia
contention ring
conversation mode
course heading servo
culture-led
debarrance
delisk
dent corn
diazeuctic
drouths
ecrhs
edible aquatic organism
elemento
elitch
fictitious potential
formosanus
front surface effect
galacto-oligosaccharide
give in
ground preparation
guarded type motor
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
heffahs
hetertopic monster
horizontal superheater
huide
hussif
i-smeiht
integral-logarithm
internal value
intrinstic proedure
joint locked waredouse
kiss up to
lamellar-spring
laser photothermal refraction spectrometry
lead sulfide photoconductive cell
low temperature absorption heat pump
macroglossum sitiene
mim structures
modified primal problem
motor grease
multiple-item
negative voltage
non-scattering atmosphere
nonlinear operator
NR for decay
omnibus circuit
one hour
operational-level
paidolog
picture detection
pieces come together
plantae
post-monsoon
praytell
propulsory
protected check
record macro
rhetorexes
serrey
sic et non
slack-water
software masking
spill off valve
straight-run motor fuel
street-battle
strong phoneme
sweet soil
tempering mill
three-way card
tie someone's hands
transrated
trinactine
trinomy
underloaded
underlying metal
unsegmented
Vila Serpa Pinto
visual threshold (in point vision)
walking the streets
withies
WRCHK (write check)