BE 620：用这些运动术语在职场中游刃有余

这里是商务英语播客第六百二十期。

This is the business English podcast episode six twenty.

用这些体育短语在职场上脱颖而出。

Dominate at work with these sports phrases.

欢迎收听来自All Ears English的商务英语播客。

Welcome to the business English podcast Podcast from All Ears English.

获取你在全球商务中实现梦想所需的英语技能。

Get the English skills you need to achieve your dreams in global business.

无论是做演示、开会，还是参加办公室聚会，这里都是真实商务英语，由你最喜欢的美国主持人Lindsay和Aubrey带来，她们分别来自美国亚利桑那州和科罗拉多州。

For a presentation, a meeting, or your office party, this is Real Business English with your favorite American hosts, Lindsay and Aubrey, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

你有没有开完会走出来时想，我本来可以说得更好的。

Have you ever walked out of a meeting thinking, I could have said that better.

你什么都听懂了，但你的回应却显得简短、不清楚，或者不像你平时的风格。

You understood everything but your response came out short or unclear or not quite like you.

也许你的想法很出色，但你的英语还没有完全展现出来。

Maybe your ideas are strong but your English doesn't show it yet.

你会忘记自己认识的单词。

You forget words you know.

你没法自然地解释事情，而且快节奏的对话会让你默默跟不上。

You can't explain things naturally and fast conversations leave you quietly catching up.

这种差距确实让人沮丧，但它也很具体，而且完全可以解决。

That gap can be frustrating, but it's also very specific and very fixable.

我们的两分钟流利度测试能帮你找出差距在哪里，以及你的水平是B1、B2还是C1。

Our two minute fluency quiz helps you understand where that gap is and whether your level is b one, b two, or c one.

一旦你知道了自己的水平，进步就会感觉更轻松、更快速。

When you know your level, progress feels lighter and faster.

现在就上allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore做测试，让你离用英语表达自己的想法更近一步。

Take the quiz now at allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore and move closer to speaking English the way you think.

再说一次，去allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

One more time, go to allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

嘿，Lindsay。

Hey, Lindsay.

你今天过得怎么样？

How are you doing today?

挺好的，奥布里。

Good, Aubrey.

你呢？

How are you?

你看世界杯比赛了吗？

Have you, seen any of the World Cup games?

我知道这期节目是九月播出的，但今年夏天可是个世界杯大夏天。

I mean, I know that this is coming out in September, but this summer was a big World Cup summer.

是的。

Yes.

我觉得特别幸运，在墨西哥的时候能看几场比赛。

I felt really lucky to be able to watch a couple of games while we were in Mexico.

第一场是墨西哥队比赛，他们赢了，特别开心。

The first one was Mexico was playing and they won and it was really fun.

我们当时在一家塔可店，大家都特别兴奋。

We were at a taco shop and everybody was excited.

和那些为自己球队加油的人在一起，真的很有意思。

It was really fun to be there with people who were supporting their team.

然后过了几天，美国队和巴拉圭队比赛，你知道的，美国队不是最强的，但当时有一群游客在场，他们踢得特别好。

And then a couple of days later, US, The US played Paraguay and, you know, The US's team was not the best, was not, you know, but there are a bunch of tourists were there and they played extremely well.

我记得最后比分是四比一。

I think the score ended up being four one.

有几个特别精彩的射门，进球也很漂亮。

There were these some amazing shots on goal, amazing score.

看比赛为美国队加油真的很有趣，虽然他们通常不是世界杯上最强的队伍。

And it was really fun to watch a game and cheer for The US even though they're usually not the best team in the World Cup.

在别的国家遇到这种情况，真的挺有意思的。

That's really funny to be in another country when that happens.

我记得2010年，当时我在西班牙走圣地亚哥朝圣之路，正好赶上西班牙赢得世界杯，那场面真是疯狂。

I remember when in 2010, I was in Spain on the hiking the Camino De Santiago when Spain won the World Cup, and it was pretty crazy.

那真是太疯狂了。

It was wild.

那场面你可以想象得到。

It would be so You can imagine.

尤其是他们赢了的时候。

Especially have him win.

天哪。

Oh, man.

简直太疯狂了。

It was crazy.

太好玩了。

So so fun.

我们知道很多听众，显然，足球是一项全球性的运动。

We know a lot of our listeners obviously, soccer is a huge world sport.

但还有其他运动。

But there are other sports too.

但今天，我们要聊体育。

But today, we're getting into sports.

我很期待。

I'm excited.

是的。

Yes.

这是系列节目的第二集。

This is part two of a series.

在第一集里，我们分享了关于大获全胜的词汇，对吧？

In the first episode, we shared vocabulary for winning decisively, right?

比如“碾压”、“完胜”、“横扫”。

Smoked, crushed, swept.

今天我们要分享一些我们在工作中经常用到的相关词汇。

And today we're sharing related vocabulary that we often use at work.

所以请听到最后。

So stay to the end.

如果你错过了那一集，完全可以按任意顺序听这些。

If you miss that one, you can definitely listen to these out of order.

好的。

All right.

不错的内容。

Good stuff.

是的，各位。

Yeah, guys.

那就赶紧点关注吧。

And go ahead and hit follow.

点一下关注按钮，确保你不会错过任何一集，尤其是这些系列节目。

Hit the follow button to make sure you don't miss a single episode, especially that you don't miss any of these series.

你想完整听完整个系列。

You want to complete the series.

所以就在这个商务英语频道上点关注按钮吧。

So hit the follow button right here on business English.

对吧？

Okay?

太棒了。

That's awesome.

所以我很期待分享这些内容。

So I'm excited to share some of this.

因为当你在听这些比赛，比如世界杯的时候，你当然会听到这些短语，但我们在工作中也会用到它们。

As when you're listening to these games, World Cup, you're going to hear these phrases, of course, but also we use them at work.

我们也会用它们来谈论商业英语中的成功。

We use them to talk about success in business English as well.

没错。

Exactly.

所以这第一个，我很喜欢。

So this first one, love it.

干得漂亮。

Killed it.

这个不错，Aubrey。

That's a good one, Aubrey.

是的。

Yes.

再说一次，对，这个用在体育上很合适，但用在工作中也很合适。

Again, yeah, it works great for sports, but works great for work too.

它的意思是，我们表现得非常好，或者取得了非常出色的成绩。

This means that we perform extremely well or we achieve outstanding results.

这个说法挺随意的，挺积极的，挺有活力的，你觉得呢？

It's pretty informal, pretty positive, pretty upbeat, don't you think?

有活力？

Energy?

对，没错。

Yes, exactly.

我们用这个来表达赞扬和夸奖，对吧？

We use it to praise, to compliment, right?

如果有人在演讲、会议、销售推介或项目中表现出色，你就可以说，你太厉害了，对吧？

If someone did really well during a presentation, meeting, on a sales pitch or a project, be like, you killed it, right?

或者我们谈论别人时，我可能会说，莎拉在客户演示中表现得非常出色。

Or we'll share about someone else, I might say, Sarah absolutely killed it during the client presentation.

或者我们的营销团队本季度表现超棒，超额完成了所有目标。

Or our marketing team killed it this quarter and exceeded every target.

我觉得这个短语很有活力。

I think this phrase has a lot of energy in it.

这就是我喜欢用它原因。

That's why I like to use it.

没错。

Exactly.

它非常赞美，而且在工作场合用也不算太随意。

It's very complimentary and it's really not too casual for work.

很多听众可能会想，这个我懂。

A lot of you listening out there might think, I, you know, I know this.

我平时也这么说，但在工作场合能用吗？

I use it in my everyday life, but can I use it at work?

当然可以。

Yes.

我们就是这么用的。

We do.

我们会用这种充满活力、非常积极的表达，即使是在工作中，虽然它们稍微随意一些。

We use phrases like this that are energetic, that are really positive even at work, even though they're a little more casual.

而“dominated”这个词就没那么口语化。

And then dominated is a little less colloquial.

它更字面一些。

It's a little more literal.

它的意思是表现明显优于竞争对手，或者掌控一个市场、一场讨论或一场比赛。

So this means to perform significantly better than competitors or to control a market, a discussion, or a competition.

我们可以“dominate”很多东西。

There's a lot of things we can dominate.

我们可以走进去，然后在讨论中占据主导地位。

We can walk in and kind of dominate a discussion.

有时候总会有人主导谈话，这可能会让人感到压力很大。

There's always sometimes there is someone who's kind of dominating the conversation, which can be intense.

这不会让我们感到消极。

It's not letting us Negative.

如果某人主导了谈话，就意味着他们不让其他人发言。

If someone's dominating a conversation means they're not letting anyone else speak.

这可能会让人感到压力很大。

Which can be intense.

听起来挺强势的。

It sounds pretty strong.

但在职场中确实可以用。

But it does work in a professional space.

没错。

Exactly.

比如说，你可以说我们公司去年主导了区域市场。

So for for example, you might say our company dominated the regional market last year.

所以，在会议上，你只是想给大家打打气，告诉大家我们做得很好。

So this, like, in a meeting, you're just wanting to hype everyone up, share that you're doing well.

你可以用这个动词来表达你们表现优异，比竞争对手做得更好。

You might use this verb to say that you excelled, that you did better than your competition.

或者再说，销售团队在展会上主导了竞争。

Or again, the sales team dominated the competition during the trade show.

这也是我们可以说的另一种说法。

It's another thing we could say.

这挺有意思的。

This is interesting.

听起来比“干得漂亮”更有策略性，“干得漂亮”只是泛指做得好。

It sounds a little more strategic than just killed it, which is a little more general term for just doing well.

所以，它经常用于比较一家公司和另一家公司，或者一个团队和另一个团队。

So, it's often used when comparing one company to another or one team to another.

我们更多是在比较的时候用这个词。

We use it more in comparison.

对。

Yes.

然后还有“destroyed”。

And then destroyed.

这个词表示一方取得了压倒性的胜利。

This means an extreme win for one side.

意思是以巨大的优势击败竞争对手。

This is to outperform competitors by a huge margin.

我还看了巴拉圭对美国的比赛，当时我在加州的一个酒吧里。

I also saw that Paraguay US game I was in California in a bar.

不错。

Nice.

感觉美国队基本上是把对方打得落花流水。

It was kind of sort of like I feel like The US kind of destroyed the other team.

比分是四比一。

It was four to one.

是吗？

Is that right?

对。

Yes.

我当时没太注意看。

I was half paying attention.

所有人都很惊讶。

Everyone was surprised.

也很兴奋。

And thrilled.

你知道吗？

Know?

我当时和一些球迷在一起，他们又震惊又高兴，对吧？

I was I was with some soccer fans who were shocked and really happy, right?

这种情况偶尔也会发生。

Every now and then that does happen.

就像你的国家，你的队伍表现得比预期要好。

Like your country, your team does better than you'd expect.

你会想，哦，他们把他们打得落花流水。

You'd be like, oh, they destroyed them.

但有趣的是，这个词既用于“统治”也用于“摧毁”。

But this is interesting for both dominated and destroyed.

它不常用，因为我们在工作中确实会用到。

It is not used as often because it's like, yes, we use it at work.

它只是语气更强。

It's just much stronger.

对，确实很

Yeah, it's really

强。

strong.

有点负面的意思。

Kind of negative.

比如，我会觉得说“我们摧毁了巴拉圭”有点过意不去。

Like, I would feel bad saying that to be like, oh, we destroyed Paraguay.

你知道，巴拉圭怎么了？

You know, what about Paraguay?

那样说。

That.

我可能不会那么说。

I probably wouldn't say that.

我会说，对，我们表现不错。

I should be like, yeah, we did well.

比如你打网球，比分是6比0、6比0，对吧？

Like if you play tennis, it's a 6,060, right?

在网球里，我们是不是管那个叫“双甜甜圈”？

It's a do we call that a double bagel in tennis?

那个人得到了。

The person gets.

对，我同意。

Yeah, I agree.

所以这绝对是用于极端情况的。

So it's definitely for extreme situations,

而且你不会走到你打球的那个人面前说“我打败了你”，除非你们是最好的朋友，并且有那种非常有趣的竞争关系，但你就是不会那么说。

And you wouldn't go to your to the person you play to be like I destroyed you unless you're like best friends and you have this really fun rivalry of, but you just wouldn't.

这太强烈了。

It's very strong.

不。

No.

当然。

For sure.

所以在商业环境中，我们可能会说我们彻底超越了销售预测，最终超出目标40%，意思是我们大幅超过了销售预测。

So in a business context, we might say we destroyed our sales forecast and finished 40% above target, meaning we exceeded by a very large margin our sales forecast.

没错。

Exactly.

我就是这么说的。

This is how I would say it.

或者说，我们的提案把竞争对手打得落花流水，然后我们拿下了合同。

Or our proposal destroyed the competition and we won the contract.

所以这就是你在表达兴奋或者想给队友打气时用的强烈措辞。

So this is just strong language you're using in order to express excitement or to like maybe hype up your teammates.

我们稍微休息一下。

We're gonna take a quick break.

等我们回来，我们会聊聊当只是稍微赢一点的时候该怎么说。

And when we come back, we'll talk about how do we say it when it's just a slight winning by a slight margin.

对。

Yes.

小差距。

A small margin.

用你的母语，你很有个性。

In your first language, you have personality.

你会开玩笑、插话、反驳。

You joke, you interrupt, you push back.

但用英语时，你可能会觉得自己变小了，更小心翼翼，表达不如真实的自己。

But in English, you might feel smaller, more careful, less expressive than you really are.

如果英语感觉像在过滤你的个性，也许是时候弄清楚原因了。

If English feels like it's filtering your personality, it may be time to understand why.

我们免费的2分钟流利度测试能帮你找出是什么阻碍了你自由、自然地表达和交流。

Our free two minute fluency quiz helps you see what's holding you back from speaking freely and naturally and connecting.

另外，你还能知道自己的英语水平。

Plus, you get your current English level.

是B1、B2还是C1？

Is it b one, b two, or c one?

今天就测一测吧。

Find out today.

现在就上 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore 做这个测试吧。

Take the quiz now at allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

网址是 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

That's allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

好的，Aubrey。

Okay, Aubrey.

短语“edged out”我不太常用，但我挺喜欢的。

The phrase edged out, I don't really use this much, but I like it.

它的意思是以很小的优势击败某人或某物。

This is to beat someone or something by a very small margin.

明白了吗？

K?

这跟“destroyed”还有其他那些词确实不一样。

This does happen different from destroyed and these others.

它强调的是竞争有多么接近。

It emphasizes how close the competition actually was.

所以如果一场足球比赛一直是一比一，直到最后时刻有人进球，你就可以说他们险胜了对手。

So if a soccer game is like one to one until the very end and then someone scores, you would say they edged out their competition.

他们只是勉强赢了。

They just barely beat them.

他们。

Them.

没错。

Exactly.

所以你可以说我们险胜了竞争对手，拿下了这个项目。

So you could say we edged out our competitor and won the bid.

只是稍微赢了一点。

Just slightly.

我们可以说这支队伍

We could say the team

很接近。

close.

非常接近。

Really close.

或者你也可以说，这个团队在项目中险胜了另外三家供应商。

Or you could say the team edged out three other vendors for the project.

所以，你知道，当时有三个入围者，他们真的很难决定，最后那个团队赢了。

So, you know, there were three finalists and they really couldn't quite decide and then that team won.

那个团队拿到了项目。

That team got the project.

对。

Exactly.

这很有用，因为在商业中这种情况更常见。

This is useful because this is often more the case in business.

胜利往往都是险胜。

Victories are often close.

比如，有很多人都在竞争。

Like, lot of people are in the running.

通常来说，谁都有可能赢。

It's usually, you know, anyone's game.

所以即使你没有压倒性优势，你也得有个说法，表示你只是险胜。

So but even if you don't dominate, you wanna have a way to say that you won just barely.

没错。

Exactly.

那我们来做一次角色扮演吧，Aubrey。

So let's do a role play, Aubrey.

Aubrey，这里我们俩在讨论一次大型行业会议之后的季度业绩。

So here, Aubrey, and you and I are discussing quarterly results after a major industry conference.

好吗？

All right?

好的。

All right.

那我先开始吧。

I'll start us Okay.

你看到最终的数字了吗？

Did you see the final numbers?

看到了。

I did.

我们的销售团队表现太出色了。

Our sales team absolutely killed it.

我知道。

I know.

他们预约的会议数量几乎是预期的两倍。

They booked nearly twice as many meetings as we expected.

我们在展位人流量方面也完全占据了主导地位。

We also dominated the event in terms of booth traffic.

看起来每个人都来参观了我们的展台。

It seemed like everyone stopped by our display.

那太棒了。

That is awesome.

哦，嘿，你听说政府合同的事了吗？

Oh, hey, did you hear about the government contract?

我们击败了另外两家公司，拿下了这个合同。

We edged out two other companies to win it.

那个团队真的值得表扬。

That team deserves a lot of credit.

他们的演示完全碾压了对手。

Their presentation completely destroyed the competition.

哇。

Wow.

看来这家公司真是势头正猛啊。

Seems like this company is on fire.

他们做得确实很好。

They're doing really well.

他们做得非常出色。

They're doing great.

业绩好得不得了。

It's doing gangbusters.

好得不得了。

Gangbusters.

确实。

Totally.

所以简单回顾一下，你问我有没有看到最终的数字？

So just to recap here, you asked me, did I see the final numbers?

我说我看到了。

And I said, I did.

我们的销售团队表现太出色了。

Our sales team absolutely killed it.

就是说他们干得非常棒。

Meaning they did a great job.

这更笼统一些。

This is more general.

这确实意味着他们做得非常好，但不一定跟竞争有关。

This does mean they did extremely well, but it's not about competition necessarily.

这只是一个很好的说法，表示他们很成功。

It's just a good way to say they were successful.

非常非常成功。

Very, very successful.

然后你说，我们在展位人流量方面也完全碾压了。

And then I You said we also dominated the event in terms of booth traffic.

所以，当你在这种销售会议上有个展位时，你可以想象人们会这样互相说，评论人潮，有多少人来我们的展位，他们看起来喜欢吗？

So yeah, when you have a booth at one of these, you know, sales conferences, you could imagine people saying this to each other, commenting on the crowds and how many people came to our booth and did they seem to like it?

然后你可以说，是的，我们完全碾压了。

And you could be like, yeah, we absolutely dominated.

跟队友说没问题，因为你们是同一个团队的。

It's okay to say it with your teammates because you're on the same team.

你可能不会跑到隔壁展位去吹嘘

You might not go to the next booth and brag

不，不是那样。

about No.

我们主导了这场活动。

We dominated the event.

但你可以对

But you can say it to

自己的团队说。

your own team.

没错。

Exactly.

没错。

Exactly.

说得好。

That's a good point.

然后你换了话题。

And then you changed the subject.

你说，哦，嘿。

You said, oh, hey.

你听说了政府合同的事吗？

Did you hear about the government contract?

我说，是的。

And I said, yeah.

我们挤掉了另外两家公司，赢得了这个合同。

We edged out two other companies to win it.

我们以微弱的优势赢了。

We slightly won it by a slight margin.

我们不太确定，也许有后续问题，公司让我们知道他们还有其他选择。

We don't maybe there were follow-up questions and the company let us know there were other options they had.

那是另一回事。你

That's a different You

如果你被录用，并且知道有很多候选人，而且有多个，你可能会说，我挤掉了竞争对手。

might say this if you were hired and you know there were a lot of candidates and there were multiple You might say, I edged out the competition.

当然。

For sure.

最后，是的，说他们的演示完全碾压了竞争对手。

And then lastly, yeah, said their presentation completely destroyed the competition.

所以我对这个团队想出来的演示印象深刻。

So I'm impressed by this presentation that was come up by a team.

有意思的是，像这样的话你可以当作赞美来说，表示你觉得别人做得好，至少在美国文化里是这样。

And this is really interesting how things like this you can say as a compliment, you're sharing that you think someone else did well, at least in American culture.

但如果我们用这些话来形容自己或自己的表现，就会让人觉得不舒服，因为这完全是在自夸。

When we say these things about ourselves and our own performance, that's when it feels uncomfortable because this is like full on bragging.

比如，我碾压了竞争对手。

Be like, I destroyed the competition.

我们不想完全自夸。

We don't wanna full on brag.

我们要避免那样。

We wanna avoid that.

我们可以做其他集，我是说，我知道在美国文化中，我们有很多自我推销。

We can do other episodes about I mean, I know that in American culture, we do a lot of self promotion.

但有一条微妙的界限，也许我们会在不久的将来，奥布里，在播客中作为文化话题来探讨。

But there's a fine line, and maybe we'll explore that, Aubrey, as a cultural topic on the podcast someday soon.

有一条微妙的界限，所以我们需要知道这里的区别。

There's a fine line, and so we need to know the difference here.

奥布里，我们关于连接的最后要点是什么？

Aubrey, what's our final takeaway for connection?

庆祝别人的胜利真的很重要。

This is really important to celebrate others wins.

如果你在团队里或是同事，你确实想分享，你知道，对他们说，哦，你太棒了。

If you are on the team or coworkers, you do wanna share, you know, say to them, oh, you killed it.

你完全击败了对手。

You destroyed the competition.

如果有人，特别是有人来告诉你他们签下了销售合同，他们升职了，你希望有语言能够和他们一起庆祝。

If they someone especially if someone comes and tells you they landed a sales contract, they got a promotion, you wanna have the language to be able to celebrate with them.

是的。

Yes.

当然。

For sure.

大家去听听这个系列的第一部分吧。

Guys, go and check out part one in the series.

那是第2675期。

That was 2675.

碾压、完胜还是轻松取胜。

Smoked, crushed, or sweat.

如何用英语谈论明显的胜利。

How to talk about clear victories in English.

所以别

So don't

那一期是在All Ears English上播出的。

And that miss was that over on All Ears English.

所以一定要关注All Ears English播客和商务英语播客。

So be sure to follow both the All Ears English podcast and business English.

我们经常会做一个系列，分享词汇以及我们在日常生活和工作中如何使用它们。

We often will do a series where we're sharing the vocabulary and how we use it in everyday life and then also at work.

这两个你都需要。

And you need both.

所以一定要关注这两个播客。

So be sure to follow both podcasts.

没错。

Exactly.

你最好每天把这两个节目都放在你的收听列表里。

You wanna have both shows in your queue, your listening queue on a daily basis.

好的，Aubrey。

Okay, Aubrey.

今天的内容真不错。

Good stuff today.

我们很快再见。

I'll see you back here very soon.

好吗？

Alright?

祝你今天愉快。

Have a good day.

下次见。

See you guys next time.

再见。

Bye.

谢谢。

Thank you.

再见。

Bye.

感谢收听《商务英语》，这档播客专为追求卓越的全球职场人士打造。

Thank you for listening to Business English, a podcast just for you, the high achieving global professional.

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Don't miss our biggest and best podcast with 8,000,000 monthly downloads.

只需搜索All Ears English播客，点击关注，每周就能获得四集新节目，内容涵盖流利度、美国文化、语法等等。

Just search for the All Ears English podcast and hit follow to get four new episodes per week on fluency, American culture, grammar, and so much more.

或者点击节目备注中的链接。

Or tap the link in the show notes.

记住，我们相信在学习英语时，连接比完美更重要。

Remember, we believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.

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Follow the All Ears English podcast now.