英语博客-北美风情 192、Teamwork

  At Culips we work in a team, so here’s an episode with expressions used to talk about working in a group. We have a couple idioms that express how positive it can be to work in a group, and one that says sometimes working in a group can cause problems. Do too many cooks really spoil the broth¹? Are two heads really better than one? You’re the judge in this episode!

　　Maura: Sometimes when you’re sitting at home and you’re trying to brainstorm² by yourself, you can’t think of anything. And then when you turn to someone and you ask them about an idea, sometimes the ideas just come so much more easily.

　　Harp³: I find that this works for us at Culips all the time. When it’s the two of us together working on something, it goes so fast.

　　Maura: Definitely. I don’t even waste time by myself thinking about all the different examples that we could use in our episodes. Now I just discuss them with you right before we record, and then our examples are even better because we had two heads thinking of it.

　　Harp: Yes, because two heads are better than one.

　　Maura: Yeah, two heads are better than one.

1 broth   

n.原(汁)汤(鱼汤、肉汤、菜汤等)

参考例句：

• Every cook praises his own broth.厨子总是称赞自己做的汤。
• Just a bit of a mouse's dropping will spoil a whole saucepan of broth.一粒老鼠屎败坏一锅汤。

2 brainstorm   

vi.动脑筋，出主意，想办法，献计，献策

参考例句：

• The women meet twice a month to brainstorm and set business goals for each other.她们每个月聚会两次，在一起出谋献策，为各自制定生意目标。
• We can brainstorm a list of the most influential individuals in the company.我们可以集体讨论，列出该公司中最有影响的人员的名单。

3 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。