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公共英语复习必备:PETS4写作短语精选

发布时间: 2009-06-12 08:31:10 作者: songlijuan

  to deliver the goods 履行诺言

  to do well at your job, especially to fulfill high expectations of you

  EXAMPLE:

  “We were delighted by the young new salesman who made more sales than anyone else in his first week on the job, proving to us that he could really deliver the goods.”

  to face the music

  承担后果,不得不面对

  to take the consequences for one’s actions, usually unpleasant consequences

  EXAMPLE:

  The sales manager had made all his successful sales representatives so angry that they all quit last week, and so he had to return to meet his boss at headquarters and face the music.

  to flesh out a proposal 充实提案

  to give or to create a more complete description of an idea

  EXAMPLE:

  “Our company’s president, Mr. Smith, liked the new idea our engineering chief, Ms. Jones, had suggested recently, and he asked her to flesh out her proposal before it was presented to our company’s board of directors.”

  to get the pink slip 被解雇

  to get fired, or to get laid off (traditionally, an official notice of termination was printed on pink paper.

  EXAMPLE:

  When the XYZ company’s sales fell in half for the second year in row, many of it s employees got the pink slip.

  to give away the farm 走漏风声

  to enter a business deal as a seller in which too much is given to the buyer

  EXAMPLE:

  “The desperate salesman dropped the price of his products to make many deals, but his boss worried that he was giving away the farm.”

  to go the extra mile 比别人多做一点点

  to make an extra effort in making a deal or providing service (from the Biblical proverb “if someone asks you to walk one mile, walk two miles”)

  EXAMPLE:

  “In order to provide the best customer service, our computer systems company always went the extra mile and provided free installation and user training at the customer’s worksite.”

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