商務英語熱詞：坦白交待

BEC商務英語核心句型：

You'd better come clean.

你最好坦白交待。

come clean 直譯過來就是：“變干凈”，所以這個短語的正確意思是：“全盤招供，坦白交待，和盤托出”。因此，當美國人說"You'd better come clean."時，他/她要表達的意思就是:"You'd better tell the truth."、"You'd better not tell lies."、"You'd better be frank."。

情景對白：

Colleague: The personnel manager doubts about my forged degree. What should I do?

同事：人事經(jīng)理懷疑我的假學歷，怎么辦?

Benjamin: You'd better come clean. Maybe he will keep you in view of your good performance.

本杰明：你最好坦白交待，或許他考慮到你的表現(xiàn)很好而留下你。

搭配句積累：

①I've involuntarily accepted a large amount of rebate from a company.

我身不由己，從一家公司收受了一大筆回扣。

②I have lost an important document. What shall I do?

我弄丟了一份重要的文件，怎么辦啊?

③I broke our manager's favorite potting. Should I tell him?

我打碎了經(jīng)理鐘愛的盆栽。我應該告訴他嗎?

④I'm afraid that the boss might have known my mistake.

恐怕老板已經(jīng)知道我的過失了。

BEC單詞：

involuntarily adv. 身不由己地

Another surge of pain in my ankle caused me to give an involuntary shudder.

腳踝突然又一陣疼痛，痛得我直打哆嗦。

I shivered involuntarily with an inexplicable dread.

我懷著莫名其妙的恐懼，身不由己地不寒而栗。

Love is not to say that and should not, sometimes involuntarily pay nothing.

愛，也不是說該與不該，有時是身不由己的付出罷了。