外刊精读周计划 5.10 Wed 精读笔记

5.10 W1 - Wed 神句神词组

（忘了计时，诶）

神句组：

1.On various occasions she has persuaded me to do things for her, just as she has enlisted thousands of others.

就像对其他无数人一样，她也说服我帮她办了许多事。

2.WhywouldI give up a Saturdayon the basis of watching a clip of a similar conference a year earlier?

我为什么要把周六耗在去年一个类似的会议视频上？

3.There is no danger of ever laying 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.

夸得天花乱坠也不要紧。加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的珍妮弗·查特曼的一项研究表明（Jennifer Chatman），多大的恭维都会有效。

4.In addition to being flattering, the perfect please has to make you feel not 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.

除了要会拍马屁，一个完美的邀请不仅要使对方感到受欢迎，同时也要让他们感到自己很重要。我看完邮件就立刻答应了。我知道它的伎俩，可就是忍不住上钩。

5.Andrather than ask if I had enjoyed it,it would have been better to attest how much they hadenjoyed having me.

还有，与其问我高不高兴，不如讲一讲我给他们带来了多大愉悦。

6.If only you wouldjoin our panel on xxx. We have a lot of clever but worthy people talking, and we need your genius to liven it up. Please say yes.

您是否愿意参加我们的某某研讨会呢？我们的演讲嘉宾们才华横溢、德高望重，但还需您的智慧才能更加熠熠生辉。恳请应允。

7.Thank you forbringing the evening to lifeand foryour scorching wit and sense. You are our own Tina Fey.

感谢您的聪明才智和连珠妙语，您为这个晚上增添了无与伦比的光彩。您就是我们的超级明星。

神词组：

1.go on at length又说了一大堆

2.cut to the chase开门见山

3.butter people up拍人家马屁

4.singularly ungratifying差强人意的

5.get sb to do sth/make sb do

sth让某人做某事

6.run into sb碰见/遇上某人

7.incline to do sth想要做某事

8.too vague to be convincing太模棱两可，没有信服力

9.be done with doing sth做完了某事

10.rattle on絮絮叨叨

11.fail to do its job失灵，无效