商务礼节美语第29期:直觉(2)

　　销售部的Steve, Faith和Katie围绕直觉展开了讨论。Katie说
Katie: I think perhaps everyone has different kinds of intuition. I'm a pretty bad judge of character, but I'm a wiz at picking stocks!
Steve: You should go to Las Vegas! You'd make a killing¹!
Katie: (Chuckle) That's not a bad idea!
Faith: But what Katie is doing is not exactly the same as gambling². She reads and watches business news, but her intuition is better that other people's. She can pick out the signs and clues that the rest of us miss.
Katie说，人跟人不一样，比如她自己，I'm a pretty bad judge of character看人就经常走眼。但是I'm a wiz at picking stocks. 挑选股票确是奇才，wiz, w-i-z, wiz.
Steve开玩笑说，Katie应该到赌城拉斯维加斯去，You'd make a killing! 保准走运，赚大钱。可Faith却说，Katie选股票不是盲目下注，而是她在这方面的直觉比其他人更敏感，可以pick out the signs and clues that the rest of us miss，发现很多其他人注意不到的线索和迹象。
K: I've read books by famous CEOs and most of them talk about how important it is to develop your intuition. Of course, not every hunch³ you have will turn out to be right.
F: That's true. Sometimes my intuition is really off! Like with my last two boyfriends.
K&S: (Laughter)
S: Intuition might play a bigger role than I think it does. My brother is a police officer and he says nine times out of ten he will just feel that something isn't right. Then when he investigates, he usually discovers he was right.
直觉也不是每次都对。除了Intuition和gut feeling，hunch, h-u-n-c-h, hunch也是直觉的意思。Faith承认，Sometimes my intuition is really off! off, o-f-f, off在这里意思是不符合标准。例如，His performance was really off recently. 他最近的表现不太好。Steve最后承认，直觉可能确实比他以为的更重要，他当警察的哥哥就说，nine times out of ten，十有八九都是他的直觉告诉他有问题，调查结果还真是那样。
K: So what should we do about this deal? Faith's intuition says there's something wrong.
S: How about if we crunch⁴ the numbers again and see if there is anything fishy⁵?
F: Sounds good. Let's go over all the documents with a fine-tooth comb and see if we can find the problem.
K: Will do. I'll work on it this afternoon.
F: Thanks for your input⁶, guys!
Steve建议，从头再算一遍crunch the numbers again, crunch, c-r-u-n-c-h, crunch在口语里有计算、处理的意思。Faith表示赞成，决定把所有文件重新仔细地过一遍，with a fine-tooth comb用一把细齿的梳子，引伸为仔细检查。

1 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

2 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

3 hunch   

n.预感，直觉

参考例句：

• I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉，他并不真正想去。
• I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。

4 crunch   

n.关键时刻；艰难局面；v.发出碎裂声

参考例句：

• If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
• People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。

5 fishy   

adj. 值得怀疑的

参考例句：

• It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
• There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。

6 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。