small talk -会议前闲聊1

【商务英语播客】208会议前的闲聊（一）
Oh, hey Liz. How's things?Hi, Coby. Not too bad. And you?
Hanging in there. So it's just you, me, Shawn and Gordon?
Yep, and here's Shawn now.
Hi, guys. Gordon just texted to say still with a client, shouldn't be more than ten minutes though.Great. Well, we might as well wait.
Yeah. Oh, and here's the coffee. I didn't have time to stop this morning, didn't know if I'd be able to crawl out of bed. It was quite a weekend.
Oh, yeah? What did you get up to?
Well, Saturday I worked on the yard all day. You know how it is. And yesterday, I went fishing up the Gravel Lake.
Catch anything?
Not much. Lots of little ones we had to throw back. Just a few keepers.But tired all the same.Didn't get back until late.
So you probably missed the game last night.
Oh, the football game. I saw it. The Lions got thrashed. Can you believe the Bears actually won this time?
Seriously? Don't tell me you're a Lions fan. There's no way the Lions should ever beat the Bears. Shawn, back me up here.
Sorry, Coby, you're on your own, mate. To be perfectly honest, I don't really follow your kind of football.
Right. I think I knew that. Well, I'll have to ask Gordon. He's a Chicago man. If he ever arrives that is.
Yeah, didn't we have to wait for him last time?Sure did. Dentist or something, wasn't it?
Yeah, something like that.
hang in there坚持下去
I feel that everything should work itself out so just be patient and hang in there. 我想事情总会得到解决的，因此耐心些，坚持下去。

crawl [krɔ:l]vi.爬行
He crawled into bed.他爬上床。

get up to 做...
Whatever will the students get up to next?
学生下一步究竟想搞什么名堂？
thrash [θræʃ]v.彻底击败
Chelsea were thrashed 6-1 by Leeds.
切尔西队被利兹队以6比1打得一败涂地。

back up 支持
I hope you will back me up in this argument.
我希望在这场争论中你能支持我。

mate [meit]n.（用作对男子的称呼）老兄
Where are you off to, mate?
老兄，你上哪儿去？。