Up in the Air-10

Confident about my plan.

• Sometimes they just need to vent（发泄）.

• Please, for the love of God, can I fire the next one?

• thank you for joining us.

• I’m here to be fired, right?

• Well, we’re here to talk about your future.

• You don’t have to sugarcoat(美化) it. I get the drill（我都懂）. What are they offering?

• Inside the packet, you’ll find a clearly worked out severance(解雇) package.

• Give me the bullet points（说重点）.

• It’s actually pretty good. Three months’ pay, six months’ medical and a full year of placement services（就业咨询） through our company

• Placement services. That’s generous（慷慨）.

• • I could be looking for a while.

• Not necessarily.

• Don’t even sweat（出汗，努力） it. I’m pretty confident about my plans.

• Yeah. There’s this beautiful bridge by my house. I’m gonna go jump off it（跳下去）.

• People say these things all the time. It’s part of the trade(工作).

• They say crazy things. They get worked up（生气）.

• She was really calm.

• I think that’s a good sign.

• they don’t ever actually do it?

• How do you know? Do you follow up?

• Nothing good’s gonna come of that.

• I wouldn’t worry about it. This is what we do, Natalie.

• We take people at their most fragile（在他们脆弱的时候）, and we set them adrift.（解雇）

• No, I’m fine. Tell me something sweet.

• I’ll be back soon. I’m not really sure how long this whole exercise is supposed to last. No, I don’t even think of him that way. He’s old.

• There are people that are gonna be way more qualified than me now.

• I don’t know what to do when I wake up in the morning, tomorrow.

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1. Some people did not take it seriously since it was just a drill.（有些人因为这只是一场演习而没有认真对待。）
2. We both know, nothing’s going to come of this, don’t we?(我们彼此都知道，这样下去肯定是没有结果的，不是吗？)

俚言我语

1.????out to lunch 出去吃午饭？or 神志不清，心不在焉

例句：What’s wrong with him?He seems to be out to lunch today.

翻译：他怎么了？他今天看起来好像神志不清，失了魂一样。

✔️ 神志不清，心不在焉

️这是一个经常被用错的俚语，很容易被误用为表达出去吃午饭。如果你在路上偶遇一个朋友，他问你要去哪里，你回答说“out to lunch”,对方可能会一愣然后用小拳拳打你哦，因为这个俚语还有“心不在焉、犯蠢”的含义。同学可能会疑惑吃午饭和这层含义根本八竿子打不着哇，按照sir的方法来理解吧~人的灵魂飘走去吃午饭了，只剩下一副空荡荡的躯壳，失去了灵魂，整个人是不是就会神志不清了呢？

2.read my lips 读我的嘴唇？or 仔细倾听

例句：Read my lips, and don’t make any mistake.

翻译：听好了，别搞错了。

✔️仔细听好

️在这里，read的意思是“倾听”、“理解”，lips也不是“嘴唇”的意思，而是通过嘴唇表达出的内容，因此，这个俚语的含义就是仔细倾听我的话啦。