6月晨读笔记-07

语言点：

1. 生气

in a snit

get bent out of shape (鼻子都气歪了既视感)

get under skin 让人生气

give sb an earful / a good talking-to ，give sb a piece of my mind 痛骂一顿

push one's buttons 让人生气

hot-head 急性子

have a chip on one's shoulder 好斗

2. grin and bear it 默默忍受；苦笑着忍受

e.g. There's nothing we can do about it. We'll just have to grin and bear it.

3. on high horse 趾高气扬

4. 拍马屁

brown noser 拍马屁的人

brownie points 拍马屁得分

e.g. He's trying to earn/win/get brownie points (from the boss) by offering to work more overtime.

yes man 领导说啥是啥

kiss up / butter up / suck up

apple-polish 

e.g. Are you trying to apple-polish me?

5. talk about... 用于强调

e.g. Talk about rain! I've never seen it rain like this in my entire life!

e.g. Talk about having a bad day. I had the worst day ever!

e.g. Talk about short. She's only four feet tall!

6. out for oneself 只为自己

7. get ahead 获得成功

8. climb the corporate/career ladder 爬高位

9. look at oneself in the mirror 不敢面对自己

10. the walls have ears 隔墙有耳

11. likely story 说的跟真的似的（忽悠，接着忽悠）

12. I wasn't born yesterday. 我又不傻。

13. stress out 压力大到崩溃

14. I don't know whether I'm coming or going. 我已经晕了不知道自己在干啥。

15. crunch time 紧张时刻，关键时刻

e.g. We might be moving onto crunch time, and we need to hurry it up.

16. have a lot on one's plate 事情超多，应接不暇

17. keep one's head above water 存活下去

18. scale back one's hours 减少工作时间

19. keep one's nose to the grindstone

20. personality

we have a lot of personalities here

a big personality in XX 大人物

TV personality 电视明星

internet personality 网红

21. keep one's nose to the grindstone 努力（磨刀霍霍既视感）

e.g. You'll do well at school if you just keep your nose to the grindstone.

22. the 80/20 rule 二八定律

语音点：

1. hot-head 重音在前

2. marketing people 重音在前

3. grindstone /ɡraɪndstoʊn/元音是/aɪ/不是/ɪ/