他们心悦诚服吗？

SCENE② B  四个半月后  玛莉巧遇戴夫 

【他们心悦诚服吗？】

 

Mary:  That's right. And I'm going to be Vice¹ President of Marketing².

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 awe³ 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

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

3 awe   

n.敬畏，惊惧；vt.使敬畏，使惊惧

参考例句：

• The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。