A: 欢迎大家来到这期的美语训练班! 我是杨琳!
B: 我是Kat! 杨琳,赶快告诉大家咱们今天要学些什么!
A: 好! 今天,咱们要接着去看看电子产品的发展走势,听听人们都有怎样的固有观念,学学怎么面对棘手的问题,还要告诉大家怎么用美语说"人气"!
B: 人气!? 提到这个我就想到了那个Mike隋,现在他好火呀!
A: 哈哈,回头咱们也录一集,说不定也火了! 不过现在,咱们先赶快来进入第一个单元,Learn a Word!
Learn A Word: bearing
今天我们要学的词是bearing. Bearing is spelled b-e-a-r-i-n-g, bearing. Bearing 意思是关系,意义。我们常用 to have bearing on something 意思就是同某事有关系,对某事有影响。The decision had much bearing on the way the company was run. 这个决定对公司的管理运营有很大影响。His private life has no bearing on his competence as a manager. 他的私生活同他作为经理的工作能力无关。美国总统奥巴马最近公开支持同性婚姻,一项民调发现,Sixty percent of Americans say Obama's new position on same-sex marriage will have no bearing on how they vote in the November election.百分之六十的美国人表示,奥巴马在同性婚姻问题上的新立场并不会影响他们在11月总统大选中把票投给谁。好的,今天我们学习的词是 bearing, bearing, bearing.
B: 杨琳,look at my new bag! Isn't it awesome?
A: OMG!!! LV???!!!我的天啊,好看是好看,可是你怎么买得起这么贵的包包呢?
B: Well, my salary has no bearing on what I'm gonna buy. That's what credit cards were made for, right?? 女生嘛,就得自己疼自己!
A: 这也对……可是一个LV包包都能顶上我一个月的房租了!!! Kat, I think you are going to have to come to grips with how much you can actually afford to spend on stuff like that...
B: Hmm... I will leave that question to future Kat, ha! But more importantly, you just mentioned a really good phrase: come to grips with, 咱们一起来听听这个短语的用法!