商務(wù)英語術(shù)語中和烹飪有關(guān)的習(xí)語

　　不管你是資深吃貨還是菜鳥一枚,吃貨們一定要不僅要熟記關(guān)于吃的英語,更要熟悉有關(guān)烹飪詞匯的口語，不然如何將吃貨文化宣揚(yáng)到世界各地呢? 下面有一些普通英語和商務(wù)英語中常常使用的習(xí)語(和短語動詞)。

　　1. To cook the books – to record false information in the accounts of an organisation.

　　1. To cook the books — 在一個(gè)組織的賬戶上面記錄錯(cuò)誤或者假的信息。

　　When the company went bankrupt, it was discovered that one of the directors had been cooking the books for years.在公司破產(chǎn)的時(shí)候才發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)董事會成員一直做假賬做了好多年。

　　2. To go from/get/jump out of the frying pan into the fire – to go from a bad situation to a worse one.

　　2. To go from/get/jump out of the frying pan into the fire — 逃脫小難又遭大難。

　　She had always had problems with her Sales Manager, so was relieved when he was sacked. However, she went from the frying pan nto the fire with the new Sales Manager!

　　她跟銷售經(jīng)理之間一直矛盾重重，所以當(dāng)他被解雇后她覺得如釋重負(fù)。然而，當(dāng)她遇到新的銷售經(jīng)理時(shí)她覺得自己才脫龍?zhí)队秩牖⒀ā?/p>

　　3. Too many cooks spoil the broth – too many people managing a job can actually create more problems

　　3. Too many cooks spoil the broth —人多反誤事。

　　Look, we need to decide once and for all who is managing this project because we have a situation of too many cooks spoiling the broth at the moment.

　　看，我們需要徹底地決定誰管理這個(gè)項(xiàng)目，因?yàn)檫@會我們處于一種人多反誤事的境況。

　　4.To Cook Something Up – to organise something

　　4. To Cook Something Up — 組織事情

　　Leave the organisational details of the party to me. I will cook something up and it will be fantastic. You’ll see.

　　把聚會的組織細(xì)節(jié)留給我吧。我會組織一切,絕對做到最好，你等著看吧。

　　5. To grill someone -to question someone without stopping

　　5. To grill someone — 不停地質(zhì)問某人

　　The police grilled the suspect for seven hours and still couldn’t get a confession out of him.

　　這個(gè)警察拷問嫌疑人七個(gè)小時(shí)，但是仍然不能讓他認(rèn)罪。

　　6. To boil over (phrasal verb) – when someone cannot control their anger and start to argue or fight

　　6. To boil over(動詞短語) — 當(dāng)一些人不能控制他們的憤怒從而開始爭吵或是打架

　　The situation was so tense in the boardroom that people’s tempers were boiling over by the end of the meeting.

　　會議室的氣氛如此緊張，在會議的結(jié)尾大家似乎要吵起來了。

　　7. To simmer down (phrasal verb) – to become calm

　　7. To simmer down(短語動詞)— 冷靜下來

　　Hey, simmer down and relax. Getting angry won’t change things.

　　嘿.冷靜下來放松。生氣改變不了任何事情。

　　8. To Simmer with rage/anger – to be filled with negative emotions like rage and anger

　　8. To simmer with rage/anger — 像憤怒和生氣一樣充滿負(fù)面情緒

　　Susan simmered with rage when she saw the disaster the builders had caused to the extension

　　當(dāng)蘇珊看到建筑者們引起的延展性的災(zāi)難時(shí)，氣不打一處來。

　　9. To stew(v) or to be in a stew(noun) – to be mentally agitated

　　9. To stew or to be in a stew — 使其處于煩惱中

　　After the interrogation, the police let Tom stew for a few hours before releasing him.審問過后，警察在釋放湯姆之前，讓他煩惱了一會。

　　10. Half-baked ideas (informal) – ideas that have not been thought out enough

　　10. Half-baked ideas(非正式)— 未經(jīng)過深思熟慮想出來的方法

　　James is always coming to me with his half-baked ideas on how we can increase sales. He is so annoying.

　　詹姆斯總是帶著很不成熟的想法來找我說如何增加銷售額，他真是煩人。