商务英语综合辅导:了解细节

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        The ins and outs
  Angela: "I hope you can help me. I want to learn the ins and outs."
  安吉拉:希望你能够帮助我,我想了解一下细节情况。
  When you add the s and say the ins and outs, you are talking about the special ways that you know to do something, when you know it very well.
  中文意思:细节。
  Cold turkey
  Angela: "Did it take you a long time to quit smoking?"
  Andy: "No. I just went cold turkey, and I never smoked again."
  安吉拉:你花了很长时间戒烟吗?
  安 迪:不,我说戒就彻底戒了,以后再也没抽过。
  You go cold turkey when you suddenly stop taking a drug which you had been taking regularly.
  中文意思:突然彻底地。