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【句子】The fact is, if I don't feel passionately about a client, if I don't feel that fire in my belly, I don't bring my A-game to court. 【Desperate Housewives S02E04】
【发音技巧】fact is连读;if I连读;don't feel不完全爆破;passionately不完全爆破;about a连读+闪音;if I连读;don't feel不完全爆破;that fire不完全爆破;don't bring失去爆破;
【翻译】事实上,如果我对一位客户没有感觉了,如果我感受不到我内心的激情,我就无法在法庭上有优异的表现。
今天我们学习一下这个短语,A game,你也可以加连字符A-game,这样一个短语什么意思呢?
大家都知道成绩里面,A+是最好的,然后A,A-等等。
所以A game就指的是一个人的最好表现/最好成绩;
one's highest level of play or performance
eg: If we don't bring our A game with us, we don't have a chance.
如果我们不拿出我们的最佳表现,我们就没有机会了。
eg: We'll have to bring our A-game to defeat the league champions.
我们得拿出我们的最佳表现,才能打败联赛冠军。
eg: No one in the team, including myself, brought their A game to any of the matches.
队伍里面没有任何一个人,包括我,参加任何比赛的时候拿出了自己的最好表现。
eg: I needed to have my A game today but it wasn't even close.
今天我需要拿出我最佳的状态的,但是今天我的表现让人一言难尽。
eg: Let me tell you something: I can still pitch. I might not have my A game every night, but like I tell the young guys, you've got to go and win when things don't feel just right.
我跟你讲,我还能投篮。我可能不会每晚都有最好的表现,但正如我告诉年轻人的那样,情况不那么理想的情况下,你也得去拼,去赢得比赛。
eg: He's a prosecutor who knows his stuff. You have to have your A game if you're going up against him.
他是一位很专业的检察官,如果你要跟他对簿公堂,你得拿出你的最佳表现。
eg: If she produces her A game she deserves to be involved.
如果她能拿出她最好的表现,她理应参与进来。
eg: If they can both take their A games to Centre Court, this is a final of huge possibilities.
如果他们俩都可以在中心球场拿出自己最好的表现,那这场决赛谁也说不好是什么结果。
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My point is that even if he had his A game going he might have lost.
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