Or if that money-making website that you designed with your friends somehow suddenly attracts investors1 and advertisers and becomes the go-to site for whatever it is you're selling, blogging, sharing, or net-casting and success shinning, hoped-for but never really anticipated success comes your way. I guarantee you someone you know or love come to you and say, "Will you address the graduates at my college?" And you'll say "Yeah sure, when is it? May 2010? 2010? Yeah sure, that's months away" and then the nightmare begins. The nightmare we've all had and I want to assure you, you'll continue to have even after graduation, 40 years after graduation. About a week before the due date, you wake up in the middle of the night, "Huh, I have a paper due and I haven't done the reading, Oh my god!"
又或者,你和朋友设计的盈利性网站吸引了投资商或者广告商,从而成为热门网站,不论这个网站是商务网站、博客网站、分享网站,还是网络视频网站,成功在向你招手。摆在你面前的成功,是你一直暗自期待的,但是却又从来没指望它真正能够到来。我敢保证,你认识或者爱戴的人会来对你说:“能帮我给毕业生做个演讲吗?”你会回答:“当然,什么时候?2010年5月?2010?当然可以,还有好几个月呢!”然而这就是噩梦的开始。我们都会做噩梦,我可以肯定地说,就算你已经毕业四十年,你仍然会做噩梦。大约在最后期限前一周,某天半夜,你突然惊醒说:“哦!我有个报告要做,但是我还没有查相关资料,阅读相关书籍呢!哦,我的天哪!”
重点讲解:
1. money-making
adj. 赚钱的;
eg. This is not money-making proposition.
这不是个赚钱的事业。
eg. We should leap at this money-making opportunity.
我们应该抓住这个赚钱的机会。
2. hoped-for
所期望的;所盼望的;
eg. The hoped-for economic recovery in Britain did not arrive.
人们所期望的英国经济复苏并没有来到。
eg. The hoped-for result is to raise $106 million next year.
期望的目标是明年能筹集到1。06亿美元。
3. due date
到期日;
eg. Please do not forget to return the book to the library by the due date.
请别忘了按期还书给图书馆。
eg. All assignments are to be received before class on the due date.
所有的作业应当在截止日期前完成。
名人简介:
梅丽尔·斯特里普(英语:Meryl Streep,1949年6月22日出生),好莱坞女明星。
生于新泽西州苏密特,被誉为“80年代最佳女演员”,不论舞台或银幕上的表演,总令人印象深刻。她在12岁已开始学习歌剧,中学时初展演戏天份,借着奖学金拿到耶鲁大学戏剧学院硕士学位,其后在耶鲁剧场演了三年戏。迁居纽约後,开始参加百老汇的舞台剧演出,曾获得东尼奖提名。她在1977年的电影处女作《茱莉亚》已令人眼前一亮,其后自《猎鹿人》获奥斯卡女配角提名开始,她便和“奖”结下不解之缘,《克莱默夫妇》获奥斯卡女配角奖后,1983年又以《苏菲的选择》夺得后冠,其它奖项及提名更是不计其数,90年代以《廊桥遗梦》最为脍炙人口,新世纪后再创事业高峰,2012年凭借《铁娘子》再度封后,好莱坞叱咤风云三十余年,她被影评人誉为“一代只出一个”的世界影坛常青树。
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investors
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n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 ) |
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- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
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