William: Hi I'm William and welcome to Authentic Real English. 大家好，我是威廉，歡迎收聽我們的地道英語(yǔ)節(jié)目。

Feifei: And I'm Feifei. 大家好，我是菲菲。

William: Feifei I'm going to set you up on a date. 菲菲，我?guī)湍惆才乓粓?chǎng)相親怎么樣？

Feifei: What?! Where did that come from? 什么？怎么會(huì)說(shuō)起這個(gè)？

William: Listen, I've got the perfect guy for you! 聽我說(shuō)，我認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)人非常適合你！

Feifei: 我真的不需要你來(lái)幫我做媒人找男朋友。

William: Come on Feifei! 拜托啦，菲菲。

Feifei: No! 不行！

William: He's tall, some might say handsome, he has an excellent job, with an amazing car! He even owns his own flat in the City. So he's a bit of a high-flyer. 他很高大，很多人都說(shuō)他帥氣，而且他還有個(gè)好工作、一輛好車，甚至在市里還有自己的公寓。他可是個(gè)high-flyer哦。

Feifei: High-flyer? Is he on airplanes a lot or something?! 那是什么意思？他在飛機(jī)上嗎？

William: No that's not what I meant. He's a high-flyer, meaning he's very successful. 不，不是那個(gè)意思。He's a high-flyer這句話是說(shuō)他是個(gè)成功人士。

Feifei: A high-flyer 的意思是形容一個(gè)人事業(yè)非常成功。

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Examples

A: How's Claire getting on? 克萊爾最近怎么樣了？

B: Doing really well. She's turning out to be a real high-flyer. 很不錯(cuò)。她已經(jīng)成為一個(gè)成功人士了。

A: Mark has been very successful. He's already one of the youngest people in a management role in the company. 馬克可是個(gè)成功人士。他已經(jīng)是公司管理層里很年輕的了。

B: Mark? Really? I never expected him to be a high-flyer! 馬克？真的嗎？我真沒(méi)想到他會(huì)是成功人士。

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William: High-flyer can also been used as an adjective: high-flying. High-flyer這個(gè)詞還可以用作形容詞：high-flying。

Feifei: High-flyer 這個(gè)短語(yǔ)的形容詞性是 high-flying. 我們來(lái)聽例句。

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Examples

A: There are a lot of high-flying bankers in that part of town. 市里的那個(gè)區(qū)有很多成功的銀行家。

B: A lot of my school friends have become high-flying doctors. 我在學(xué)校里的很多朋友已經(jīng)成為了成功的醫(yī)生。

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William: So Feifei, are you going to go on a date with this high-flying friend of mine? 那么，菲菲，一要不要去跟我這個(gè)成功的朋友約會(huì)呢？

Feifei: No way. 沒(méi)門兒。

William: Come on... David will be really disappointed... 拜托，要不然大衛(wèi)會(huì)很失望的。

Feifei: David? You mean, that friend you brought along to the work dinner last week? 大衛(wèi)？你說(shuō)的是上周你帶來(lái)一起參加工作聚餐的那個(gè)人？

William: Yes, that's the one. 沒(méi)錯(cuò)，就是他。

Feifei: Well, you should have said! 你怎么不早點(diǎn)兒說(shuō)？

William: Great! 太好了！

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