神句组:
1.On various occasions she haspersuaded me to dothings for her, just as she has enlisted thousands of others.
在各种各样的场合中她总是能够成功地说服我去为她做事,正如她曾经赢得了成百上千人的帮助。
2.Why would I give up a Saturday on the basis of watching a clip of a similar conference a year earlier?
我为什么要放弃一个星期六而仅仅为了观看与去年相似的一段会议?
3.There is no danger of everlaying it on too thick. There is no level at which flattery stops working, according to a study by Jennifer Chatman of the University of California,Berkeley.
加利福尼亚伯克利大学的珍妮弗·查特曼研究结果显示,过分吹捧并没有什么坏处,拍马屁永无上限。
4.In addition to being flattering, the perfect please has to make you feelnot only wanted, but also needed. I read the email and said yes at once. I knew how manipulative it was, but I could not help myself.
除了表现出恭维,完美的邀请必须得让你感觉不仅仅是被征求,而且是真正被需要。我阅读了电子邮件之后立即答应了她,我知道我的行为是被她的邮件所驱使的,但是我根本控制不住自己。
5.And rather than ask if I had enjoyed it,it would have been better to attest how much they had enjoyed having me.
还有,去描述拥有我的加入让他们多少开心是否会更好一点呢,而不是仅仅问我是否享受这场大会。
6.If only you wouldjoin our panel on xxx. We have a lot of clever but worthy people talking, andwe need your genius to liven it up.Please say yes.
如果你能够加入我们XXX的小组,那该有多好啊!我们有将会有很多聪明并且值得尊敬的人讲话,而且我们需要你的才能去使场面活跃起来。请一定要答应我们!
7.Thank you forbringing the evening to lifeand foryour scorching wit and sense.You are our own Tina Fey.
谢谢你给这个夜晚带来生气,谢谢你灼热的智慧和情感。你就是我们的Tina Fey呀!
神词组:
1.go on at length详细地继续下去
2.cut to the chase切中要点
3.butter people up吹捧某人
4.singularly ungratifying极为不满意
5.get sb to do sth/make sb do sth使某人做某事
6.run into sb碰巧遇到某人
7.incline to do sth倾向于做某事
8.too vague to be convincing太模糊而没有说服力
9.rattle on对…喋喋不休
10.fail to do its job未能胜任工作