职场英语场景八：SCENE8 他们心悦诚服吗?
Mary: That's right. And I'm going to be Vice President of Marketing.玛莉： 没错。而我将会是行销部的副总裁。
Dave: 1) Way to go, Mary. A lot has happened during the last few months, hasn't it?
戴夫： 有一套，玛莉。过去几个月还真发生了不少事，对吧？
Mary: 2) You can say that again!
玛莉： 我完全同意！
Dave: What's up with Vince and Elvin?
戴夫： 文斯跟艾文怎么样？
Mary: They work for Zina now.
玛莉： 他们现在是吉娜的手下。
Dave: And they're happy with that?
戴夫： 那他们心悦诚服吗？
Mary: 3) They're in awe of her. After they saw how she crushed WebTracker...but I guess you know all about that.
玛莉： 他们很敬畏她。在他们目睹她如何搞垮“网路搜寻家”之后......但我想那你全都知道。
语言详解
A: That's a classy car!
那台车真棒！
B: Yeah, it belongs to the president.
是啊，那台车是总载的。
【What's up with...?……是怎么了？】
这个句型可以用来询问人的状况，通常是你发现对方有啥不对劲的时候。
A: What's up with him?
他是怎么回事？
B: He and his girlfriend just split up.
他跟女朋友刚分手。
你也可以用这个句型来问事物。
A: What's up with the new air conditioner?
这台新冷气机是怎么回事？
B: The other one broke, so I went and bought this one.
另一台坏掉了，所以我去买了这台新的。
1) Way to go. “有一套。”这句短语是用来称赞他人的表现。
2) You can say that again. 我再同意不过了。这句话是用来表达对他人说的话心有戚戚焉。
3) be in awe of... 对……心存敬畏
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