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1、bec中级考试口语练习素材商务英语口语：她疯了不成? SCENE C 艾文与玛莉在意式浓缩咖啡机前碰面 Mary: There's just one 1) catch. Zina asked me to let you know. 玛莉： 只是有个难题。吉娜要我让你知道。 Elvin: What? 艾文： 什么? Mary: She 2) promised that we'd be ready to start 3) tracking the S web site by the end of next week. 玛莉： 她承诺我们会在下星期结束之前，打算好起先监控S的网站流量

2、。 Elvin: What!? It'll be a 4) miracle if we're ready by the end of the month! Is she crazy? 艾文： 什么!?我们在月底前能打算好就是奇迹了!她疯了不成? Mary: Yes, I think she is just a little bit crazy. 玛莉： 对，我觉得她是有点疯。 Elvin: Crazy is too kind. 5) Insane is more like it. Nuts! Wacko! Psycho! 艾文： 疯这个字还太慈爱。说是丧心病狂还差不多。神经病!

3、怪胎!心理变态! 语言详解 A: Do you believe in life after death? 你信任来生吗? B: No. I don't believe in miracles. 不。我不信任奇迹。 当我们在形容一个人或是一件东西的时候，经常在大家七嘴八舌之后，却还是不够传神，没有点出精髓，这时若你想到了绝佳的形容方法，你就可以用上这个句型.is more like it.“还更贴切。” A: Jane is a little shy. 珍有一点羞涩。 B: A turtle hiding in her shell is more like it. 说她是缩头乌龟还更贴切

4、。 That's more like it.这句类似的话也很常用。这句话的运用时机是当对方的表现最终让你有了满足感觉，你可以用这句话 That's more like it.“这才像话嘛。”给对方一点小小的激励。 A: After ten weeks of ignoring us, the boss finally said he'd give us both a raise. 在对我们不理不睬十个星期以后，老板最终说要给我们两个加薪了。 B: Now that's more like it. 这才像话嘛。 1) atch (n.) 阴谋，难题 2) promi

5、se (v.) 承诺 3) track (v.) 追踪，监控;此指track the web site“监控网站流量” 4) miracle (n.) 奇迹 5) insane (a.) 精神错乱的;其后的几个字都是用来形容此类状况：nuts (a.) (俚)疯的：wacko (a.) (俚)怪里怪气的; 6)psycho (a.) 心理变态的。 商务英语口语：撤资 SCENE C 艾文跌跌撞撞进了文斯的隔间 Vince: I just talked with the venture capitalists. If we don't follow Zina's timeline

6、, they'll pull the plug. 文斯： 我才跟我们的投资方谈过。若我们不照吉娜的时辰表进行，他们就撤资。 Elvin: Well, they're going to find out real soon that her timeline is impossible. 艾文： 好啊，他们很快就会发觉，她的时辰表是不行能的。 Vince: Maybe not. Zina got Vikam to 1) put up money for three new programmers. They start tomorrow. 文斯： 或许不会。吉娜让“维康”出钱请了

7、三个新的程序设计师。他们明天就开工。 Elvin: Are we just going to let her 2) hijack the company? 艾文： 我们就这样让她在公司夺权? Vince: For now, Zina is calling the shots. 文斯： 目前是由吉娜来发号施令。 Elvin: I can't believe this is happening. 艾文： 我不信任有这种事。 Vince: Umm.You're still 3) dripping blood on my desk. 文斯： 嗯你的血还在往我的桌上滴。 语言详解 A:

8、Do you like rainy days? 你喜爱下雨天吗? B: I like listening to the sound of dripping water. 我喜爱听水滴落的声音。 pull the plug的字面意义是“拔插头”，用在医院中就是指“拔除长期陷入昏迷的病患的维持生命系统”，以让他安乐死。 A: That car accident was terrible. Did Joe ever make it off life support? 那场车祸真是可怕。乔现在还要靠呼吸器维持生命吗? B: His injuries were too serious. His fami

9、ly decided to pull the plug. 他受的伤太重了。他的家人确定让他安乐死。 开枪的时候，要有人喊口令，于是乎call the shots 就是指“发号施令”，以表示做决策以及作主限制的意思。 A: Josie is good at calling the shots. 乔西很会发号施令。 B: And that is why the company has been so successful. 所以这公司才会那么胜利啊。 1) put up 供应金钱 2) hijack (v.) 劫持(车，船，飞机) 3) drip (v.) 滴落 商务英语口语：我才不要分心 SCE

10、NE B 吉娜和戴夫在隔间里 Dave: Do you think maybe it would be better to just talk to Vince? Explain the situation? 戴夫： 你觉得去跟文斯说会不会好一点?说明这整个状况? Zina: No way. I want the satisfaction of 1) squishing this bug myself. Plus, what if it's Vince? 吉娜： 门都没有。我要自己享受压扁这只虫子的满意感。而且若文斯就是那小子怎么办? Dave: I don't think s

11、o. Your admirer seems kind of sweet. Aren't you even a little 2) curious about him? 戴夫： 不会吧。你那仰慕者好像还蛮贴心的。莫非你对他一点都不新奇? Zina: He's just a 3) distraction, like a mosquito buzzing in my ear. I want no distractions. 吉娜： 他只会让人分心，就像耳边蚊子嗡嗡叫。我才不要分心。 Dave: A little distraction might 4) do you some goo

12、d, Zina. 戴夫： 略微分点心或许对你有好处，吉娜。 语言详解 A: Our two-year-old baby is always getting into trouble. 我们家那个两岁的小鬼老是出状况。 B: Two is the age when they start to get curious. 孩子就是从两岁会起先新奇。 a little 意思是“不多，但仍有一点”，假如是little，意思是“很少”，隐含否定之意。 A: There's still a little time. We can have another drink. 还有一点时间，我们可以再来一杯

13、。 B: But there is little money with us. 但是我们没有什么钱了。 A: I think they would accept my credit card. 我想他们会接受我的信用卡。 1)quish (v.) 挤扁，压扁 2) curious (a.) 感到新奇的 3) distraction (n.) 分心 4) do someone good 对某人有好处 商务英语口语：我太惊慌了 SCENE B 艾文与玛莉在意式浓缩咖啡机前碰面 Elvin: Wow. She can be really 1) nasty, can't she? 艾文： 哇。

14、她厌烦起来还真要命，不是吗? Mary: No. She was right. I was too nervous. I kept thinking, What if we 2) blow it? 玛莉： 不。她说得对。我太惊慌了。我满脑子都在想“万一我们搞砸了怎么办?” Elvin: Well, I guess Zina figured you couldn't blow it if you were in the hotel room. 艾文： 呃，我猜吉娜料想，若你待在旅馆房间就不会坏事了。 Mary: She even stayed at a different hotel.

15、She said I might be 3) contagious. 玛莉： 她甚至还住在另一间旅馆。她说我这坏心态或许会传染。 Elvin: Well, at least we have S. That'll be great 4) publicity. 艾文： 呃，至少我们有了S。那会是很好的宣扬。 语言详解 A: You can be really nasty to your friends. 你有时候对挚友还真恶劣。 B: They deserve it. 他们活该。 what if = what will we/you do if，是省略掉“你(或我)要怎么办”字眼，达到简洁

16、的目的。 A: I agree with you. But what if Cindy comes in five minutes? 我同意你的想法。但是万一辛蒂五分钟后来了怎么办? B: Well, we have waited for her at least 45 minutes. 我们至少己经等她四十五分钟啦。 A: Let's stay another ten minutes. 让我们多停留非常钟吧。 1) nasty (a.) 惹人厌的，低劣的 2) blow (v.) 搞砸，失败 3) contagious (a.) 具传染性的 4) publicity (n.) 宣扬，知名度 bec中级考试口语练习素材