雅思习语之Sweeten the pot

2017-07-11 08:13

来源：雅思备考指南

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Sweeten the pot是雅思习语之一，具体的情景用法都有哪些呢？让我们一起来看一下。

雅思习语之Sweeten the pot

Sweeten the pot在牌桌上的意思是把赌注的总数加得高一些，这样可以对玩游戏的人更有吸引力。可是，这个词汇已经变成一个日常用语了。它的意思是：为了使一个提议更有吸引力而在原有的条件基础上再增加一些对对方有利的条件。我们来举个例子看看：

例句-1: "Miss Smith didn't want the job until the company sweentened the pot by offering her a higher salary and the use of a company car."

这句话的意思是："施密斯小姐本来不想要那份工作的。后来，那家公司提高了给她的工资，还给她一辆公司的汽车用。这样，她才接受了那个工作。"

下面一个例子是关于房地产生意的：

例句-2: "They've built so many new office buildings here that they have trouble renting out all the space. So some landlords sweeten the pot; they offer a company six months free rent if it signs a three-year lease."

这句话翻译到中文的意思就是："他们在这儿盖了那末多的办公楼,现在都租不出去。所以，有的房产主就设法增加一些吸引人的条件。他们对一个公司说，要是这个公司和他们签订一个三年的租房合同，他们就可以免交半年房租。"

口语题目结合范例

1.What should employers do to keep talented staff stay in their company?

雇主们应该如何挽留人才？

Actually, talented staffs they are the core of an organization who could bring remarkable profit into the book, bosses should sweeten the pot by adding more remuneration package including higher annual bonus, and more pay holiday in order maintain their satisfaction.

人才是公司的核心，他们能为公司带来客观的收益，老板们应该通过提高福利，包括更高的年奖金或者带薪假期来提高他们的满意度。

2.What should shops do to attract customers?

商店应该如何吸引客户呢？

In my point, customers mostly focus on the quality and experience of shopping they get from a store, those are the basic requirement shops have to consider of, for those want to be unique and outstanding, they might even sweeten the pot a bit by adding more on promotion package as well.

我觉得，大部分的客户比较注重的是质量和购买体验，那是基本的需求来的，那些想要鹤立鸡群的商店，应该提供更多的推销组合来吸引客户。

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