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I'm Susan Clark with the Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.

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A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businessesand investment companies in New York City and Chicago.

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"I studied English before I left home," she said. "But I still was not sure that people were speaking English."

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Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own.

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Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.

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One such saying is get your act together.

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When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, "Stop making mistakes. Get your act together."

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Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, "Let us get our act together."

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Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized . In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.

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It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry.

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Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said, " Calm down , now. Get your act together."

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Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late nineteen seventies. Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in nineteen seventy-eight. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.

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Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its yearly report, "Getting Our Act Together."

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The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by American business people. It is cut to the chase.

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She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long report.

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It was not very interesting. In fact, some people at the meeting were falling asleep.

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Finally, the president of the company said, "Cut to the chase."

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Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material. Hurry and get to the good part.

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Naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Hollywood movie producers believe that most Americans want to see action movies . Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot.

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Cut is the director's word for stop. The director means to stop filming , leave out some material, and get to the chase scene now.

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So, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.

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This WORDS AND THEIR STORIES program was written by Jeri Watson. I'm Susan Clark.

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重点单词   查看全部解释    
chase [tʃeis]

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n. 追求,狩猎,争取
vt. 追捕,狩猎

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fell [fel]

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动词fall的过去式
n. 兽皮
v

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understand [.ʌndə'stænd]

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vt. 理解,懂,听说,获悉,将 ... 理解为,认为<

 
scene [si:n]

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n. 场,景,情景

 
confused [kən'fju:zd]

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adj. 困惑的;混乱的;糊涂的 v. 困惑(confu

 
consult [kən'sʌlt]

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v. 商讨,向 ... 请教,查阅

 
director [di'rektə, dai'rektə]

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n. 董事,经理,主管,指导者,导演

 
guardian ['gɑ:diən]

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n. 保护人,监护人

 
reform [ri'fɔ:m]

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v. 改革,改造,革新
n. 改革,改良

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organized ['ɔ:gənaiz]

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v. 组织

 

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