【重点讲解】
1. your only advantage is that neither party knows that there's another player that has leverage on you. You bring them both together, you lose your tactical edge.
你唯一的优势就在于双方都不知道对方都有你的把柄。你要把两个人集中到一块儿,你战略上的优势也就没有了。
2. Cutting it close.
时间扣得还真紧。
【cut it close是固定搭配,意思就是卡死时间做事情。】
3. Better get your story straight.
你有话就直说好了。
4. - Self made his own bed.
- Yeah, and we're sleeping in it.
- Self是咎由自取。
- 是啊,我们跟着倒霉。
【make one's bed字面的意思是铺床,但引申出来的意思就是对自己做的事情负责;而后半句sleep in往往跟着出现,就是承担后果的意思。比方You've made your own bed, now sleep on it. ——你自己干的好事,现在自食其果了吧。】
5. Let's say, best-case scenario.
设想最好的情况。