Key phrase: to get your head around
Example conversation:
A. Well, what did you think of the report?
B. Honestly, I need some more time to get my head around it.
A. You don’t understand it?
B. I do (understand it). It’s just a bit complicated. And like I said, give me half a day to get my head around it.
A. You need to get your head around it?
B. Yes, I need to spend some time comprehending it. Getting my head around it.
A. OK, well, talk to you at, say 6pm tonight?
B. Sounds good. Talk then. Bye-bye.
British author doris lessing has won the 2007 nobel prize for literature. Her breakthrough work was 'the golden notebook," published in 1962. (oct. 11)
現年 (Doris Lessing)於11日獲得2007年諾貝爾文學獎。她最具代表性的作品是1962年出版的金色筆記本。對她而言,諾貝爾獎像是為她的文學生涯開了一個同花大順。
Key vocabulary:
securities
stocks
bonds
debt
portfolio
Example conversation:
A: Hi John. How's your portfolio doing?
B: Hi Fred. My portfolio of securities is doing well. My stocks are up 30%. Although my bonds aren't doing too well...
B: I see.
A: Fred, how about you?
B: Well, I have some debt. Personal debt. So I don't have a lot of money in securities.
A: Well, try your best to rectify that my friend!
B: Oh! I will!
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