英语情景对话：你真会开玩笑
-Andrea:Hi. Uh, I have an appointment with Emily Charlton.你好，我约了艾米莉·查尔顿。
-Emily:Andrea Sachs?
安吉丽娜·塞克斯?
-Andrea:Yes.
是的。
-Emily:Great. Human Resources certainly has an odd sense of humor.
要命。人力资源部还真会开玩笑。
Follow me.
跟我来。
Okay, so I was Miranda's second assistant…
听着，我本是马林达的第二助手，
but her first assistant recently got promoted, and so now I'm the
first.
她首席助手近期晋升，所以我现在是首席助手。
-Andrea:Oh, and you're replacing yourself.
哦，你给自己找替身。
-Emily:Well, I am trying.
但还没找到。
Miranda sacked the last two girls after only a few weeks.
马林达几周内炒了前两个女孩。
We need to find someone who can survive here. Do you understand?
我们需要生存者。明白不?
-Andrea:Yeah. Of course. Who's Miranda?
当然。马林达是谁?
地道口语表达：Human Resources certainly has an odd sense of
humor.真会开玩笑。她是说人力资源部的人眼光很异样奇怪，挑来了一个完全不懂时尚的人做时尚杂志的编辑，自然这也算是一种幽默了。sense of
humor幽默感。例如：He is distinguished for his sense of humor.
他以其幽默感著称。前面可以加形容词，表示什么样的幽默感，比如：The fiddler's crude and irreverent sense of humor
was distasteful to him.拉琴人的粗鲁无礼的幽默感使他讨厌。
注解：
1.have an appointment with和……有个约会
Well, I have an appointment with my customer.
嗯，我跟我的客户有个约会。
2.promote vt.提升
I was promoted to editor and then editorial director…
我先是被提升为编辑，然后又晋升为编务总监。
3.survive v.幸存
Those organisms that are most suited to the environment will be those that
will survive…
最适宜该环境的微生物将会存活下来。
4.first assistant首席助手
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