早安英文 第636期:老板对你说fire away 不是要开除你

fire away 尽管问吧

So "fire away" is used to encourage the other speaker to tell you what they wanted to say.

表示鼓励别人说出想说的话。

对话：

A: Mumu I have a lot of great ideas for next years broadcast.

B: Fire away.

A: 木木，关于明年的节目，我有很多的想法。

B: 尽管开口吧。

sweat blood 拼命的工作

This company sweated blood to get this work finished before Friday.

这个公司拼命把这个工作在周五之前完成。

Put something off 把...推迟

I put off writing the report until the last day, now I have to work overtime¹ to finish it.

我报告拖到最后一天才准备写，现在我不得不加班加点的完成了。

That guy is such a people person.

这个人真讨人喜欢。

Sorry I didn't finish the script² earlier, I had a lot on plate earlier.

 

对不起，我没有完成这个脚本，我之前有很多事情要处理，很忙。

1 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

2 script   

n.剧本，广播稿；文字体系；笔迹，手迹

参考例句：

• It's easy to identify his script.他的笔迹容易辨认。
• The script is massaged into final form.这篇稿子经过修改已定稿。