时间:2019-02-25 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Akiko: How did your presentation go over this morning at the meeting?



Gerry: It was a complete flop 1!



Akiko: I don’t believe it. You spent weeks working on that presentation.



Gerry: It wasn’t the presentation that bombed. It was my big idea. Leona called it a retread of what I presented last year, and she was not in the least impressed.



Akiko: Ouch, that’s pretty harsh. What did the others say?



Gerry: Overall, the response was dismal 2. Everyone else was trying to be tactful, but it boiled down to the fact that they thought it was pathetic.



Akiko: I’m sure that’s not true. And if they didn’t jump up and down about the idea right away, they’re bound to come around after you give them more details.



Gerry: I don’t know…



Akiko: Come on, aren’t you the same guy who told me that you didn’t know the meaning of the word ‘quit’?



Gerry: That was before this morning’s presentation.



Akiko: Are you giving up on your great idea?



Gerry: No, I guess not, but it’ll take some reworking…



Akiko: Good, then you won’t give up?



Gerry: I guess not. What the heck? I’m only risking more humiliation 3 and failure, right?



Akiko: That’s the spirit!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



n.失败(者),扑通一声;vi.笨重地行动,沉重地落下
  • The fish gave a flop and landed back in the water.鱼扑通一声又跳回水里。
  • The marketing campaign was a flop.The product didn't sell.市场宣传彻底失败,产品卖不出去。
adj.阴沉的,凄凉的,令人忧郁的,差劲的
  • That is a rather dismal melody.那是一支相当忧郁的歌曲。
  • My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal.我重新找到一个合适的工作岗位的希望很渺茫。
n.羞辱
  • He suffered the humiliation of being forced to ask for his cards.他蒙受了被迫要求辞职的羞辱。
  • He will wish to revenge his humiliation in last Season's Final.他会为在上个季度的决赛中所受的耻辱而报复的。
学英语单词
(solid) products of weathering
account department
acronine
ancillaries to trade
androphore
anemadus taiwanus
angsten
antimalarially
apostated
arguments from silence
bandwidths
Board-chute
brachybasia
break a bill
brine density
career-limiting
cedc
cesium-oxygen cell
chromium soap
Ciano
cigga-weed
citrus sinensis osbeck kikunenbo
classification image
Cloud Security Alliance
constant-current generator
constant-temperature heat transfer
crayer
creatone
cylindrical equal-area projection
cytoplasmic streaming
data assessment
descent flight profile
dirt filtrating screen
display panel
double-drum boiler
Druzbice
duct of his
earth's crust geochemistry
economic dimensions
electricresistivity
EMU-V
ensueth
episodic movement
external fin
fastunine
fatty ester
Find Fast
foe worthy of someone's steel
Fra Filippo Lippi
gemistocytic
gerontin
going ballistic
Haase's rule
hammadi
high courts statistics
home-office
horizontal centering potentiometer
index of number employed
jet flying belt
laban centre for movement and dance
lateral forced-air cooling
lil old
linear rectifier
longitude zones
longrun
low-head mixed-flow water-turbine pump
magnetograpy
massacr'd
Matanzas, B.de
me-generations
mean lower low water spring
medicalising
mince(d) pie
Muftīpur
nicotine replacement therapy
nonhomeostatic
nonrandom index
organic electron transport material
out of earshot
pattern-maker's hammer
polyvinyl acetate adhesive
pupilise
queu(e)ing description
root mass ratio
Rosamit
shetland finish
soft sulfur
spittal
steamboat history
strongly mixing condition
suspension population
Szödliget
tabulating card
TDZ
thesauric
turnaround cycle
untopical
uzzle
variable density system
vector servomechanism
Venae metacarpales palmares
within call