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打破公司生日聚会的尴尬气氛

2010-07-16来源:和谐英语
  Maybe your office birthday party experience is different, and everyone sings heartily and dives happily into the cake. If that’s the case, don’t change a thing – you’re living the dream!

  或许你经历着的公司生日聚会与我说的不同,或许你们都由衷地唱着生日歌,高兴地吞咽着蛋糕。如果是这种情况,什么都不要变——你简直活在梦想世界!

  Vocabulary:

  1. drone  n . 雄蜂;懒人,游手好闲者。

   2. monotone a . 单调的。

   3. deja vu  n . The experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously, although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain.

   4. belt v . 大声歌唱;痛骂。

   5. grunt work: work that is menial (卑贱的) and thankless.

   6. albeit conj . 尽管,虽然。

   7. tedious  a. 冗长乏味的,使人厌烦的。

   8. bow out: 退出(某事)(常指让别人接替)。