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Expressing Pessimism表示悲观
Mary: I'm a little confused right now. Why did you give up your contract again?
玛丽：我真是有点儿糊涂了。你为什么又放弃这个合同了呢？
John: I hate to sound pessimistic, but I felt we were just a little too busy to handle another new project.
约翰：我不是悲观，只是我觉得我们太忙了，恐怕没有时间来接手新项目。
Mary: But you could have transferred the contract to one of our other companies.
玛丽：但是你可以把这个合同转到我们其他的公司啊。
John: We don't have another company that can handle such a big project, and I would hate to lose a customer because we did something wrong or not very well.
约翰：我们没有其他公司可以接手这么大的项目，我不想因为我们的失误或是没有做好而失去客户。
Mary: Sometimes, I don't think I understand you. Are you afraid of a little hard work?
玛丽：有时候，我觉得自己真是不了解你啊。你就这么害怕稍微有点儿难度的工作吗？
John: It's not that. We can't do that, It's too difficult. We'll probably screw it up. I'm just thinking about the future. I hope our customers can appreciate that it is their concerns that made me choose this.
约翰：不是这样的。我们不行的，太难了，很有可能会搞砸的。我是在为将来着想。我希望我们的客户能明白，是基于他们的利益我才做出这样的决定的。
