Learn English with SUITS — The First Episode · Learn English With TV Series
通过《Suits》第一集片段学习高级商务英语表达,适合练习职场沟通和谈判技巧。包含实用词汇和真实语境对话,提升英语应用能力。
Hi yay, I'm Izzy, your real -life
嗨!我是伊兹(Izzy),就是你在现实生活中的朋友/伙伴哦。
English Fluency Coach and today we'll learn
英语流利度训练师……今天我们将一起学习更多内容!
advanced English with another scene from what's considered by many people the best pilot episode of a TV show of all time.
这段内容展示了高级水平的英语表达能力;同时,它还引用了另一段情节,这段情节出自被许多人誉为有史以来最精彩的电视剧试播集之一。
We're back with suits and the badass lawyer Harvey Spector in the very first scene he appears.
我们又回来了,这次主角依然是那些穿着西装的律师们,以及那位非常厉害的律师哈维·斯佩克特(Harvey Spector)。他在剧中首次出现的场景就令人印象深刻。
Now this lesson is absolutely packed with useful expressions for you to add to your own vocabulary
这节课确实包含了大量非常有用的表达方式,你可以把它们添加到自己的词汇库中。
and as always you'll have a lot of fun along the way.
而且,像往常一样,你在整个过程中一定会玩得很开心。
So here's what you need to know.
以下是你需要了解的内容。
Jarrowtate, this man, is a client at Harvey's law firm.
贾罗泰(Jarrowtate)是哈维律师事务所(Harvey’s law firm)的客户。
He hired them to help with a company acquisition.
他雇用了这些人来协助完成公司的收购工作。
That's when one company buys another company and they merge into one.
就在这个时候,一家公司会收购另一家公司,然后两者合并成一家新的企业。
The deal is going smoothly when Harvey left the office at 7 p .m.
交易进行得很顺利,直到哈维在晚上7点离开办公室。
but now, late at night, Harvey gets called back because everything's falling apart.
但是现在,深夜时分,哈维又被叫了回去——因为一切都陷入了混乱之中。
So let's see what went wrong.
那么,让我们来看看到底哪里出了问题。
I'm paying you millions and you're telling me I'm going to get screwed?
我付给你数百万美元,你却告诉我我会吃亏(或者说我会遇到麻烦)?
Jessica, have I come in a bad time?
杰西卡,我来得是不是不太合适?
Jarrowt, this is Harvey Spector, he's our best closer.
贾罗特,我是哈维·斯佩克特,他是我们队最出色的终结者(即负责在比赛最后关头完成防守任务的球员)。
Well if you're the best closer where the hell you've been for the last three hours.
如果你真的是最出色的终结者(即在比赛中负责完成最后一击的球员),那在过去这三个小时里你到底在哪里呢?
Well Jarrowt, I specialize in troubled situations and when I left here at 7 p .m.
好吧,贾罗特,我专门处理各种棘手的情况。我是在晚上7点离开这里的。
this deal wasn't in jeopardy so I'm just trying to figure out what happened in the interim.
这笔交易本身并没有受到任何威胁(即交易仍然可以按原计划进行),所以我只是想弄清楚在这期间到底发生了什么。
We keep offering more money that keep rejecting it, it's last minute bad faith bullshit.
我们不断提出更高的报价,却屡次遭到拒绝;这完全就是出于恶意、在最后一刻耍的把戏。
Alright in this lesson we're going to walk through the entire scene,
好的,在这一节课中,我们将详细分析整个场景。
part by part, we just watched the first part and so now we're going to break down the advanced vocabulary we just saw.
我们先观看了一下第一部分的内容,现在就来分析一下刚才出现的那些高级词汇。
So right from the first line, we can hear an interesting word Jarrowt uses.
从第一行开始,我们就能听到贾罗特(Jarrowt)使用的一个有趣的词汇。
I'm paying you millions and you're telling me I'm going to get screwed?
我付给你数百万美元,你却告诉我我会吃亏(即我会遭受损失)?
When someone gets screwed in business, they end up with a bad deal.
当有人在商业交易中受到不公平对待时,他们就会陷入一场糟糕的交易(即自己吃了亏)。
Maybe they lose money or things don't work out the way they expected.
也许他们亏损了,或者事情并没有按照他们的预期发展。
Like if you get screwed by a car salesman because you pay too much or the car broke down right away.
比如说,你被汽车销售员坑了——要么是因为你付了过高的价格,要么就是车子刚买过来就坏了。
You can use this in formal expression in other contexts too.
你也可以在其他正式场合中使用这种表达方式。
It basically means to be cheated or treated unfairly.
这基本上意味着被欺骗或受到不公平的对待。
See this other example.
再来看这个例子吧。
Reving you projections down and down I think we got screwed.
当我不断下调你们的预测数值时,我觉得我们真的遇到麻烦了(或者说:我们被欺骗了)。
Yeah, me too.
是的,我也是。
Massive fuck up can huge.
严重的失误可能会带来巨大的后果(或负面影响)。
So this is when Harvey enters.
就在这时,哈维出现了。
Let's see how Jessica introduces him.
让我们看看杰西卡会如何介绍他。
Jessica, have I come in a bad time?
杰西卡,我来得是不是不太合适?
Jarrowt, this is Harvey Specter.
贾罗特,我是哈维·斯佩克特。
He's our best closer.
他是我们队最出色的终结者(即负责在比赛最后阶段压制对手进攻的投手)。
In business, a closer is someone who's skilled at getting deals done.
在商业领域,“closer”指的是那些擅长促成交易的人。
In other words, good at closing deals, which is a common location you'll hear with the word deal.
换句话说,就是擅长完成交易(即达成协议)。在商业语境中,“deal”这个词通常就是指这种“完成交易”的意思。