商务英语考试常见的生活用语

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商务英语考试常见的生活用语(1)

Bullfighting has always been very popular in Spanish-speaking countries. But in Spain, Calonia's regional parliament has voted to outlaw bullfighting, making it the first area on the mainland to initiate a ban. It will be in place this year.

西班牙的斗牛运动很有名。不过西班牙的加泰罗尼亚德地区议会投票表决将取缔斗牛这项运动。这是西班牙国内第一个在法律上禁止斗牛的地区。这项法律将于今年晚些时候生效。

For my quiet grandfather his teenage neighbour's rock'n'roll-themed party was like a red rag to a bull.

Don't talk to my dad about the smoking ban. It's like a red rag to a bull.

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英语里还有另一个短语 'to see red'. 它的意思是令人感到气愤。比如:

Reading about bankers' bonuses really makes me see red.

Turn up late for school and Mr Hitchens will see red.

商务英语考试常见的生活用语(2)

The phrase 'with flying colours' was originally used to describe the flags 'flying' on victorious ships. When a ship sailed into a port, it had its flags up if it had been victorious in battle. This expression was at first used only for ships, but later changed to refer to success more generally.

'With flying colours' 最初源于打了胜仗的军舰在回到港口时会挂起的彩旗。虽然这个表达以前用于船只，但后来逐渐被用来表示成功。

My daughter passed her exams with flying colours! We're going out to celebrate tonight.

'Did John pass his driving test this morning?' 'Yes, he passed with flying colours.'

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还 有一个短语to show one's true colours, 意思是当某人的本来面目或性格表现出来了。有一支很有名的歌 True Colors, 歌词中有一段 "And I see your true colors shining through". 意思是 I can see your real personality and who you are 我能看到真正的你。但这个短语也可以带有贬义，比如:

Tom showed his true colours in the restaurant – he was so impatient and started shouting at the waitress!

Tom 在餐厅里终于原形比露了，他很没耐心，对服务员大吼大叫!

请注意单词'颜色' 在美语里的拼写是 color, 在英式英语里是 colour.

商务英语考试常见的生活用语(3)

The Red Arrows are the Royal Air Force aerobatic display team. The trails of coloured smoke they leave in the sky are made by releasing diesel into the exhaust, which oxidises and leaves a trail of smoke. In this photo, dyes have been added to produce a blue and red colour.考生如果怕自己错过考试报名时间和考试时间的话，可以 免费预约短信提醒，届时会以短信的方式提醒大家报名和考试时间。

红箭是英国皇家空军的空中特技飞行表演队。飞机在空中飞过时会留下一缕缕有颜色的烟雾。这些烟雾是飞机从排气管释放柴油，然后通过氧化过程而形成的。在这张照片中，柴油里加入了红色和蓝色的染料，所以喷出的烟雾有了颜色。

Daniel is such a high-flyer. He's only 31 years old and he's already the financial director of the company.

My brother is a high-flying businessman and travels all over the world.

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另外有一个短语 high-flown, 虽然拼写很像 high-flyer，但含义不一样，意思是夸张的，华而不实的。

He tried to seduce Katherine with high-flown language, but she wasn't impressed.

Peter has high-flown ideas about morality but he's never nice to me!

商务英语考试常见的生活用语(4)

This photo shows a painting from the Takao Trick Art Museum of Japan. The history of trick art is about 2,000 years old. It had become an established art form by the time of the Renaissance era. The theme of the concept at the Takao Trick Art Museum is essentially the same as the illusionism of that era; that is creating the optical illusion that depicts objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings.

这张采自日本高尾山幻视艺术美术馆的一张照片。幻视艺术已经有2000年历史了到文艺复兴时期幻视艺术已经发展为一门成熟的艺术。高尾山幻视艺术美术馆所表现的主题基本上就是文艺复兴时代的幻觉意识，以视觉上影像来取代二维空间的绘画作品。

London has grown so much that is has swallowed up all the outlying villages.

Food and heating swallows up much of our household income.

The company was swallowed up in a corporate merger.

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另一个短语 to swallow it – 意思是忍气吞声地接受什么东西。

Customers will just have to swallow the price rises.

You've got no choice about the decision so just swallow it and move on.

We've lost the deposit on the holiday, we will have just have to swallow it.

商务英语考试常见的生活用语(5)

Holi, the annual Hindu festival of colours, is being celebrated across India.

The biggest celebrations take place in the temples of the northern town of Vrindavan. During the festival, people throw scented coloured powder and perfume at each other.

胡里节Holi是印度每年一度的色彩狂欢节。最大的狂欢活动在印度北部的维伦

达文的寺庙里举行，欢庆的人们相互投掷五颜六色的彩漆和香水。

How do you dare you show your face in this restaurant after having left without paying last time you ate here!?

Mary wasn't keen on leaving her house after her husband's death but we insisted that she showed her face in family gatherings.

I don't really want to go to that party. I'm just going to show my face and then leave.

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另一个容易混淆的短语是 To put on a brave face. 意思是故作勇敢。

Mr Jones put on a brave face in spite of having been made redundant from his job of 20 years.

The British have a reputation for putting on a brave face even in times of war.