时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之商务英语


英语课

ESL Podcast 1164 – Making Office Renovations 


Alice: I can’t hear you over that hammering. When are these renovations going to be done? 


Dilbert: They’re already two weeks past the scheduled completion date and I can only guess at the cost overruns. 


Alice: It feels like they’re never going to finish. 


Dilbert: I know. When the renovations were announced, I was glad to hear that the office would be reconfigured for better use. 


Alice: Me, too. 


Dilbert: The upgrades sounded good – new lighting 1 fixtures 2, flooring, and sound-deadening walls and ceilings. 


Alice: I was looking forward to an updated look with new built-ins. This old furniture shows lots of wear and tear. 


Dilbert: Yeah, now all I want is to be rid of all this dust. Who can work with this racket? 


Alice: Heh? What did you say? Did you say you can’t hack 3 it? Me, neither! 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 lighting
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
2 fixtures
(房屋等的)固定装置( fixture的名词复数 ); 如(浴盆、抽水马桶); 固定在某位置的人或物; (定期定点举行的)体育活动
  • The insurance policy covers the building and any fixtures contained therein. 保险单为这座大楼及其中所有的设施保了险。
  • The fixtures had already been sold and the sum divided. 固定设备已经卖了,钱也分了。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
3 hack
n.劈,砍,出租马车;v.劈,砍,干咳
  • He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
  • Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。
学英语单词
a walk over
a-trembling
acclime
armored cow
atlernate
authorized institution
barrier sheath
bombeck
Bronchostrongylus
btp (bromo-trifu-loride process)
can-tho
canceleer
candona shitsyi
casualists
Chiconamel
ciamarra
comparative educational economics
cooling pond cleanup plant
Crouchy
cum dividend and ex dividend
curtain of terylene fiber
Cyathopsidae
death-masks
delete a directory
density flotation
destinyless
dombra
double petticoat insulator
drastic setback
economic value
eisegesis
electrolytic honing
eluant gas
flinty crush rock
floral stimulant
flyrodder
fore stand-hanging hook
Forsmo
fullyelectrified
ganca (kirovabad)
General cash offer
girl Friday
ham trimming
heterotherm
hudson seals
hydroxy acid
immunosmoelectrophoresis
industry tax
inhalation apparatus
ksat
Laguarres
last cost method
Latin5
latitude by dead reckoning
loading charge
Macedonists
Macrodilution
male accessory gland
methylstreptimidone
minera
mitral valve orifice area
motor on-off switch
muczyk
Niphymycin
off-spins
okome
olfactory cortex
on approbation
PA-SRBC
pipe analysis log
plexus coronarius cordis posterior
powdered anion exchange resin
protactinides
protein-calorie
purves
push shots
quadroxalates
regional jet
Roegneria nutans
roller wheel
rolling hitches
rowels
selective automonitoring tracing
sequestrate
shifting oscillator
slag temperature
snow storm
sodium oleate soap
stereochromy
stop segment
subfractional horsepower motor
three-eyed
Timadit
to chill out
tone vibrator
tooth roots
trauma(tism)
unchambering
vox populi, vox Dei
water-cannon rock-breaker
weight discharge
welded bonnet