How to ask for what you want — and get it every time
Day1
詞組：
1.run into偶然遇到/遇上
[a].Wang agreed to sell IBM Systems last year after it ran into financial problems.
[b]He ran into Krettner in the corridor a few minutes later.
[c]The driver failed to negotiate a bend順利打個(gè)彎 and ran into a tree.
2.went?on at lengthabout?
長(zhǎng)篇大段講述。。。
3.clip片段
4.feel restive and inclined?to hit the delete button
restive：不耐煩的; 感到厭煩的; 不滿的
ep：If you are?restive, you are impatient, bored, or dissatisfied
The audience grew restive.
5.acquaintance[?'kwent?ns]
【a】An?acquaintance?is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well. 相識(shí)之人
He exchanged a few words with the proprietor, an old acquaintance of his.
【b】If you have an?acquaintance?with?someone, you have met them and you know them. 結(jié)識(shí)
【c】When you?make?someone's?acquaintance, you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. 與某人初次相識(shí)
6.cut to the chase開(kāi)門見(jiàn)山
7.flattery/butter people up
1）flattery['fl?t?ri] excessive or insincere praise阿諛?lè)畛械?br>
【ep】He is ambitious and susceptible to對(duì)...敏感 flattery.
2）butter...up=pay a compliment to?
flatter討好 with the intention of getting something
【ep】
The only truly effective way of saying please is tobutter people up.
Some people believe to?butter?up?your boss is the only way to get ahead.
8.singularly['s??ɡj?l?li] 異常地ungratifying['ɡr?t?fa???]不滿意
9.function盛大集會(huì)
10.manipulative
skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
11.a fiend[fi?nd] 魔鬼/能手/成癖者with
12.comply本文中偏向于照做
act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
句子：
1.There is no danger of ever?laying it on too thick. There is no level at which flattery stops working.
2.In addition to being flattering, the perfect please has to make you feel?not only wanted, but also needed.
3.You thank specifically for?the thing. You say why you liked it — and you must thank promptly. The only?difference for me now is that I no longer have to rattle on for a page and a?half. Indeed, the shorter the better.
rattle on for: talk incessantly and tiresomely
Day4
W1-Wed神句神詞組
神句組：
1.On various?occasions she has persuaded me to do things for her, just as she has enlisted thousands of others.
各種場(chǎng)合她都曾要求我為她做事，正向他要求別人一樣。
2.Why would I give up a Saturday on the basis of watching a clip of a similar conference a year earlier?
我就看了這樣一個(gè)千篇一律的大會(huì)視頻，為什么要因此犧牲一個(gè)周六呢？
3.There is no?danger of everlaying it on too thick. There is no level at which flattery stops working, according?to?a study?by Jennifer Chatman of the University of California,Berkeley.
永遠(yuǎn)都不要擔(dān)心用力過(guò)猛。據(jù)伯克利加利福尼亞大學(xué)的Jennifer Chatman所做的研究，奉承的話是永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)失效的。
4.In addition to?being flattering, the perfect please has to make you feelnot only wanted, but also needed. I read the email and said yes at once. I knew how manipulative it was, but Icould not help myself.
除了阿諛?lè)畛兄?，最完美的?qǐng)求要讓對(duì)方感受到自己不僅僅被需要，而且必不可少。我一讀那封郵件就答應(yīng)了，我知道這是巧妙安排過(guò)的，但我就是無(wú)法控制自己。
5.And rather than ask if I had enjoyed?it,it would have been better to attest how much they had enjoyed having?me.
與其問(wèn)我是否享受這次活動(dòng)，我更想了解主辦方和觀眾對(duì)我是否滿意。
6.If only you would?join our panel on xxx. We have a?lot of clever but worthy people talking, and we need your genius to liven it up. Please say yes.
如果你能夠參加我的座談會(huì)就太好了。我們有很多聰明且值得尊敬的人一起交談，我們非常需要你的智慧來(lái)引領(lǐng)我們。拜托一定要答應(yīng)我的請(qǐng)求。
7.Thank you for bringing the evening to lifeand foryour scorching wit?and sense. You are our own Tina Fey.
感謝您讓這個(gè)夜晚精彩紛呈，感謝您熾熱充沛的智慧和情感。你就是我們的Tina Fey.
神詞組：
1.go on at length？
2.cut to the chase
開(kāi)門見(jiàn)山
3.butter people up
奉承某人
4.singularly?ungratifying
完全不讓人滿意的
5.get sb to do?sth/make sb do sth
要求…做…
6.run into sb
偶遇…
7.incline to do sth
傾向于做…
8.too vague to be?convincing
太籠統(tǒng)以致難以說(shuō)服他人
9.be done with?doing sth
做完…
10.rattle on
東拼西湊…
11.fail to do its job
無(wú)法完成某項(xiàng)工作
