英語口語情景對話:你真會開玩笑

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    -Andrea:Hi. Uh, I have an appointment with Emily Charlton.
    你好,我約了艾米莉·查爾頓。
    -Emily:Andrea Sachs?
    安吉麗娜·塞克斯?
    -Andrea:Yes.
    是的。
    -Emily:Great. Human Resources certainly has an odd sense of humor.
    要命。人力資源部還真會開玩笑。
    Follow me.
    跟我來。
    Okay, so I was Miranda's second assistant…
    聽著,我本是馬林達的第二助手,
    but her first assistant recently got promoted, and so now I'm the first.
    她首席助手近期晉升,所以我現(xiàn)在是首席助手。
    -Andrea:Oh, and you're replacing yourself.
    哦,你給自己找替身。
    -Emily:Well, I am trying.
    但還沒找到。
    Miranda sacked the last two girls after only a few weeks.
    馬林達幾周內炒了前兩個女孩。
    We need to find someone who can survive here. Do you understand?
    我們需要生存者。明白不?
    -Andrea:Yeah. Of course. Who's Miranda?
    當然。馬林達是誰?
    地道口語表達:Human Resources certainly has an odd sense of humor.真會開玩笑。她是說人力資源部的人眼光很異樣奇怪,挑來了一個完全不懂時尚的人做時尚雜志的編輯,自然這也算是一種幽默了。sense of humor幽默感。例如:He is distinguished for his sense of humor. 他以其幽默感著稱。前面可以加形容詞,表示什么樣的幽默感,比如:The fiddler's crude and irreverent sense of humor was distasteful to him.拉琴人的粗魯無禮的幽默感使他討厭。
    注解:
    1.have an appointment with和……有個約會
    Well, I have an appointment with my customer.
    嗯,我跟我的客戶有個約會。
    2.promote vt.提升
    I was promoted to editor and then editorial director…
    我先是被提升為編輯,然后又晉升為編務總監(jiān)。
    3.survive v.幸存
    Those organisms that are most suited to the environment will be those that will survive…
    最適宜該環(huán)境的微生物將會存活下來。
    4.first assistant首席助手