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欢迎来到《一分钟英语》栏目

You already know that firefighters are trained to safely put out fires.

大家都知道消防员是专门安全灭火的人

Put Out Fires

灭火 解决问题

Do Anna and Jonathan have new careers?

安娜和乔纳森是找了新工作吗？

Anna, I haven't seen you all week. What have you been doing?

安娜 我一周都没看见你了 你在忙啥呢

I have been busy putting out fires!

我一直在忙着解决问题

First, Kim yelled at a very important customer, and then Kevin!

首先 金姆吼了一位很重要的顾客 然后又是凯文

Kevin gave the wrong presentation at a big meeting.

凯文在一场大型会议上弄错了PPT

So now is not a good time to tell you that there's a big mistake in this report...?

所以现在告诉你这份报告里有一个很严重的错误是不是不太好

As an idiom, to "put out fires" means to deal with urgent problems rather than your usual tasks.

做习语讲时 "put out fires"是指解决紧急问题而不是普通任务

Think of the problem as a fire--something that needs to be dealt with quickly before it spreads or causes much damage.

想想火灾这样的问题——需要快速解决以免它扩散或造成更多损失

And that’s English in a Minute.

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