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Using English at Work(MP3+字幕) 第57期:Socializing with Coworkers(5)

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"To bad-mouth (someone)" means to say bad things about another person.

It's never a good idea to bad-mouth someone, because that other person may hear you, or people that you are talking to might tell that person - especially if that person is your boss!

When Brian starts to grumble about work and bad-mouth the boss, I'm in no mood to talk about work.

If someone is "in no mood" to do something, it means that he or she does not want to do something, they're not interested in doing something.

If you feel sick, for example, you probably are in no mood to go outside and play in the snow, or simply to go outside.

I'm in no mood to talk about work, meaning I don't want to talk about work since it's Friday and it's the beginning of the weekend, so I change the subject.

"To change the subject" means to say or do something that gets people to stop talking about whatever they're talking about now and begin talking about something else.

If your wife or husband asks you to do something that you don't want to do, you may change the subject so perhaps they'll forget about it.

That's what I'm doing here; I'm changing the subject so we can talk about something else, not work.

To do that, I ask my coworkers about their plans for the weekend.

Diana says that she's planning to kick back and relax.

"To kick back" means to stop working and start having fun.

I like to kick back after a long day by sitting on my couch and watching a baseball game, at least during the summer.

"To kick back" is a somewhat informal expression.

In our story, Diana is going to kick back and relax. Rodrigo says that he has a hot date.

A "date" is a romantic meeting between two people, and a "hot date" is a date with a very attractive or sexy person.

Unfortunately, not all dates can be hot dates!
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romantic [rə'mæntik]

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adj. 浪漫的
n. 浪漫的人

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baseball ['beis.bɔ:l]

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n. 棒球

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informal [in'fɔ:məl]

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adj. 非正式的,不拘形式的

 
grumble ['grʌmbl]

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v. 发牢骚,抱怨,轰鸣
n. 怨言,牢骚,轰

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attractive [ə'træktiv]

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adj. 有吸引力的,引起注意的

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