戴尔英语红宝书 第100期

 

Topic: There’s a board meeting tomorrow.

Victor：Nancy我们今天来讨论一下meeting。

Nancy：There’s a board meeting tomorrow.

Victor：Oh， Nancy what is a board meeting?

Nancy：Well Victor，a board is a group of people who control the money for a company， a school， or an organization of some kind.

Victor：Mm.

Nancy：They get to make all the decisions.

Victor：那么这个board就表示董事的意思。

Nancy：The meeting is where they make the decisions.

Victor：meeting就表示董事会board meeting。

Nancy：And the leader of the board is the chairman， or the chairwoman¹ of the board.

Victor：那么董事会的主席我们可以叫做chairman或者叫chairwoman。

Nancy：Ok，so there’s a board meeting tomorrow.

Victor：There’s a board meeting tomorrow.

Nancy：That’s all for today! 

1 chairwoman   

n.女主席，女会长；女议长

参考例句：

• The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.新上任的女主席很会说话。
• She was pleased at being chosen chairwoman.她被选为主席很高兴。