ESL杰夫的一天 第66期:工作 休息和吃午饭讲解(4)

 　　There's a different expression, to start in on someone — on a person, 这里还有一个不同的表达，“to start in on someone（a person）”，

　　and if you start in on a person — on your brother, on your wife, 如果你“start in on a person（你的兄弟，你的妻子）”，

　　that means that you are criticizing¹ them — you're saying something bad — something negative about them. 意思是你正在批评他们，你正在说他们的坏话。

　　When I was younger, if I didn't do my homework, which was often, my mother would start in on me, meaning she would criticize² me. 我年轻的时候，如果我不做作业，那是常有的事，我妈妈就会“start in on me”，意思是她就会批评我。

　　"Jeffrey, do your homework!" The only person who calls me "Jeffrey" is my mother. “杰弗里，做你的作业！”只有我妈妈会叫我“杰弗里”。

　　Back to our story, I said that my phone rang and it was "my project manager, Julie." 言归正传，我说我的电话响了，是“我的项目经理朱莉”打来的。

　　The manager is the person that is in charge of a certain group of people — someone who is the boss, 经理就是管理特定人群的人，就是老板，

　　and a project is just a set of things for you to do, usually related³ to each other. 而项目就是一系列需要你做的事，通常这些事情互相关联。

　　Well, my project manager, who's like my boss, "asked me to come in for a conference call with our head office." 那个，我的项目经理，她就像我老板一样，“通知我参加我们总部的多人电话会议。”

　　A conference, "conference," call is a telephone call with three or more people. 电话会议（conference）是指三人或三人以上的电话会谈。

　　And, that's very common in American business and in international business to have a conference call so more than one person can talk on the telephone. 而且，电话会议在美国企业和跨国企业中极为普遍，这样多个人都能进行电话交谈。

1 criticizing   

v.评论，批评( criticize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He committed the cardinal sin of criticizing his teammates. 他犯了指责队友的大错。
• She's always criticizing her husband for being sloppy. 她总是指责她的丈夫做事马虎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 criticize   

vt.批评；批判，指责；评论，评价

参考例句：

• Whenever you criticize him,he always has an excuse.你批评他，他总有说头儿。
• You are free to criticize my work.你可以随意批评我的工作。

3 related   

adj.有关系的，有关联的，叙述的，讲述的

参考例句：

• I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。