美國之音之流行美語big gun / to quarterback

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Michael是紐約大學的美國學生，他同時也在一家建筑公司實習。他的中國同學李華今天要去他的公司看他。Michael聽得懂中文，但是說還有點困難。Michael和李華在今天的對話里會用兩個常用語，一個是：big gun; 另一個是to quarterback。Michael現(xiàn)在在辦公室門口和李華打招呼。

M: Hey, Li Hua, Come on in. How're you doing?

L: 我挺好。你怎么樣？對了,你下午想干什么？

M: Ah, I've got a meeting with the big guns this afternoon. They want to talk to me about continuing to work here after graduation.

L: 我聽懂了你后面的一句話，他們要跟你談關于畢業(yè)后回來工作的 事。那真是太好了。可是，你剛才說今天下午要跟誰開會？

M: Yea, I 'm meeting with my bosses. Sometimes we call them the big guns of the office.

L: 噢，你要跟你的幾個老板開會。你們把老板叫做the big guns!

M: It's an expression that can be used to describe powerful people.

L： 噢， 那是指權力很大的人， 也就是大人物。那么，總統(tǒng)的顧問能 稱為big guns嗎？

M: Yes, a president's advisors are big guns. But it can also be used in sports. In soccer the stars of a team are the big guns.

L: Big guns 還能用在體育方面。

M: OK, let me show you around the rest if the office.

L: 你要帶我去看看這公司的大樓，那太好了。Let's go!

M: This is the conference room. We had a meeting here yesterday on our plan for a new building. The project leader quarterbacked the meeting.

L: 等等，你說這是會議室，你們昨天在這里開了一個會， 討論蓋 一 棟新樓的計劃?？墒?，你還說那項目主任是踢美式足球的，是quarterback，四分衛(wèi)，對不對？

M: No, no, no! Quarterback here is a verb, meaning to lead. The word quarterback is borrowed from American football, where the quarterback leads the team.

L: 噢，quarterback 在這里是動詞，意思是領導。你說這里的 quarterback 是從美式足球里借來用的，因為quarterback在球隊里是主力。你剛才是怎么說的？

M: The project leader quarterbacked the meeting.

L: 現(xiàn)在我聽清楚了，你剛才說的是：項目領導人主持會議。

那么，to quarterback 還能用在別處嗎？

M: To quarterback is business slang. If someone is responsible for a group working on a new project that individual is quarterbacking the team.

L: 知道了，to quarterback 是用在商業(yè)方面的。要是某人負責一個新項目，這個人就是在領導這個項目的小組。要是某人在一個法律事務所主持會議，那該怎么說呢？

M: Someone quarterbacked the meeting at the law firm.

L: 你們公司的一位重要領導主持會議，討論公司的收入報告，這又 該怎么說？

M: The company's big gun quarterbacked the meeting about their revenue report. Hey, I need to get back to work. I'll call you later.

L: 好吧，那就再見吧！希望你將來成為a big gun.

M: Oh, yea, I'm sure soon I'll be quarterbacking every meeting and every project.

L: 你真的當真吶！ 還想主持所有會議，總管所有項目。得啦，再 見吧！

Michael 和李華在對話中用了兩個常用語， 一個是：the big guns， 意思是大人物，對決策有重大影響的人；另一個是：to quarterback，意思是主持會議，或總管項目。這次[流行美語]就播講到這里。下次節(jié)目再見。