2003-10-29,10-31聽力兩題

sugarhouse

2003-10-29

29.

W: I tentatively scheduled to meeting for Thursday to go over your inventory report. Assuming you can meet that deadline.

M: Well, to be honest, even Friday might be pushing it a little.

What does the man imply?

答案沒有問題,可以請問一下pushing it a little.是什麼意思呀

2003-10-31

W: How old do you think this one is?

M: It＊s hard to tell. The earliest brachiopods were from the Paleozoic era, 300 to 500 million years ago. They were quite successful then in terms of number of species. It＊s not out of the question that your fossil could be that old.

W: Wow, that＊s amazing. Kind of makes paleontology seem more interesting when you can hold it in your hand.

不好意思.題目也沒有問題,不過搞不清楚out of question的意思是??

zhoushao

pushing it a little.：推迟一些

push:

to change someone's situation, or to make a situation change, especially when some people do not want it to change
The law would push even more children into poverty.

attempts to push the peace process forward

be out of the question
if something is out of the question, it is definitely not possible or not allowed
You can't go in that old shirt - it's out of the question.
这样的话It＊s not out of the question 其实就是肯定的意思了

sugarhouse

謝謝^^

millionwood

我认为pushing it  a little是指时间上有点紧的意思

millionwood

另外，out of the question 是impossible的意思，







而not out of the question，也就就是possible的意思了，呵呵

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