VOA慢速英语:Words and Their Stories: Get Your Act Together

短语讲解：

1. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work.

deal with论述, 涉及
例句：This book deals with life in the United States.
这本书谈的是美国的生活情况。

2. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.

borrow from从…借入; 借用
例句：Japanese has borrowed heavily from English.
日语借用了很多英语词汇。

3. When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry.

go wrong走错路,误入岐途,(机器等)发生故障
例句：The sum is wrong, but I can't see where I went wrong.
总数错了,可是我看不出哪里算错了。

4. The director may have said, "Calm down, now. Get your act together."

calm down（使）平静，镇静，安静
例句：Calm down, there's nothing to worry about.
冷静点儿, 没有什么好担心的。

5. In fact, some people at the meeting were falling asleep.

fall asleep入睡，睡着
例句：Don't cry, the sick have fallen asleep.
别叫喊，病人已经入睡了。

6. Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material.

spend on把…花在…
例句：He doesn't spend much time on his homework.
他花在作业上的时间不多。

7. Cut is the director's word for stop. The director means to stop filming, leave out some material, and get to the chase scene now.

leave out遗漏, 省略, 删去; 未顾及, 忽略
例句：I notice that the advertisement leaves out the price of the product.
我注意到广告没有提到产品的价格。