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Joshua: You okay?
Rachel: I’m more than okay, I am really, really happy! Wanna know why?
Joshua: Do I?
Rachel: ‘Cause I am really happy about us. I think we are, I think we are so on the right track! Y’know? I mean, I think we are working, I think we are clicking. Y’know?
Joshua: Yeah, sure-sure, yeah, we’re-we’re-we’re-we’re-we’re clicking.
乔叔华:你还好吧?
瑞秋:我好极了,我真是,真是太高兴了。想知道为什么吗?
乔叔华:我想吗?
瑞秋:因为我实为太为我俩高兴了。我觉得我俩正朝着好的方向发展呢!我是说我们很合拍,是吧?
乔叔华:是,当然,当然,我们,我们,我们很合拍。
【世博视角】
track作为名词的基本的解释是“轨道”, 火车只要是在正确的轨道上行驶就不会有什么问题,因此be on the right track 就用来表示“方向正确”或“想法对头”,如:The figures show we are on the right track.一般说来只要方向正确,我们只要be on track就能达到预期的目标了,又如:We’re on track for 10% growth.
再来说一下click这个词,我们平时使用电脑时做得最多的一个动作就是按鼠标,也就是click,如:Select the printer icon and then click the left mouse button. 同时按属标时发出的“叭哒”声也可以用click来表示。除此之外,click 还有两个妙用,一是用来表示人与人之间的一种默契与投缘,例如:Liz and I really clicked (with each other) the first time we met. 第二,它可以表示一下子明白什么事情的意思,例如:
Then it clicked. The man at the station must have been her brother!
As he talked about his schooldays, it suddenly clicked where I had met him before.