职场社交英语 Lesson 65:他们心悦诚服吗?

SCENE② B 四个半月后 玛莉巧遇戴夫

【他们心悦诚服吗？】

Mary: That's right. And I'm going to be Vice President of Marketing.

玛莉： 没错。而我将会是行销部的副总裁。

Dave: 1) Way to go, Mary. A lot has happened during the last few months, hasn't it?

戴夫： 有一套，玛莉。过去几个月还真发生了不少事，对吧？

Mary: 2) You can say that again!

玛莉： 我完全同意！

Dave: What's up with Vince and Elvin?

戴夫： 文斯跟艾文怎么样？

Mary: They work for Zina now.

玛莉： 他们现在是吉娜的手下。

Dave: And they're happy with that?

戴夫： 那他们心悦诚服吗？

Mary: 3) They're in awe of her. After they saw how she crushed WebTracker...but I guess you know all about that.

玛莉： 他们很敬畏她。在他们目睹她如何搞垮“网路搜寻家”之后......但我想那你全都知道。

语言详解:

A: That's a classy car!

那台车真棒！

B: Yeah, it belongs to the president.

是啊，那台车是总载的。

【What's up with...?……是怎么了？】

这个句型可以用来询问人的状况，通常是你发现对方有啥不对劲的时候。

A: What's up with him?

他是怎么回事？

B: He and his girlfriend just split up.

他跟女朋友刚分手。

你也可以用这个句型来问事物。

A: What's up with the new air conditioner?

这台新冷气机是怎么回事？

B: The other one broke, so I went and bought this one.

另一台坏掉了，所以我去买了这台新的。

1) Way to go. “有一套。”这句短语是用来称赞他人的表现。

2) You can say that again. 我再同意不过了。这句话是用来表达对他人说的话心有戚戚焉。

3) be in awe of... 对……心存敬畏