The Long Goodbye 惜别
【前情提要】
情人节，Elena邀请James在中餐馆吃饭，想借机表白。孰料，席间James却一再向Elena打听Sabrina的消息，这让Elena非常失望；而此时在城市的另一端，小强因为公务繁忙而延误了和Lily的约会，这让Lily非常恼火。就在Lily原谅小强后，一个电话又破坏了整个约会。午夜十二点，整个城市弥漫在爱情的氛围中，但是那些寂寞的城市中人却只能孤单地过着没有情人的情人节……
【本期剧情】
James因事要回美国，临行前，他终于鼓足勇气向Sabrina告白，但却遭到了Sabrina的拒绝；小强因业绩突出被公司派往欧洲学习一年，可是他在事业得意之时却情场失意――Lily竟然提出了分手。
【重点提示】
Language Focus / 语言点：
1. 语言背后的文化知识
职业技能竞赛
2. 固定英语表达法
3. 阅读难点解析
Part One: 包装行业
Never Gonna
怎么获取root权限
Give You Up!
雌二醇低 毫无机会
（James有要事需回美国，临行前，他终于鼓起勇气向Sabrina告白……）
Sabrina: You're quiet today, is something up?
James: Well…actually, I should tell you, I got a call from some family in the US just yesterday, and they need me to come back as soon as possible. It's some kind of emergency. So, I've booked my flight home and I'll be leaving next week. I'm sorry to give you such short notice work-wi, but I only just heard about it mylf…
Sabrina: Oh. That sounds pretty rious. Don't worry about the work, we'll manage but…I hope everything is okay…
James: Yeah. No-one was really giving me enough information over the phone. I'm trying not to expect the worst.
Sabrina: It's easy to think it's going to be something horrible when you get tho sudden "Come home now!" phone calls, but you shouldn't jump to any conclusions yet.
James:Yeah. I know.
Sabrina: Do you want to talk about it? I don't want to force you to think about it any more than you already are, but you em like you could u a sympathetic ear right now. Is so
meone in the family sick?
James: Actually, there's something el.
Sabrina: Okay…
James: I know we haven't always en eye to eye in the past, but I think I'mbeginning to reali that it's somethingel that makes me act a certain waywhen I'm around you.
Sabrina: Okay…
James: Like I know一年级脑筋急转弯 I can come across asa little cocky sometimes, and I just wantyou to know that that's not really…
Sabrina: (interrupting) James, James,you don't have to apologi for yourlfright now. You have a lot on your mind.
James: No, what I'm trying to say 儿童励志故事is…Iwas thinking about why I always em to behave in a way that I don't want to behave in front you, and I think it's basically becau I…like y
ou a lot, Sabrina.
o型血和ab型血生的孩子是什么血型 Sabrina: Oh! I…
James: And I didn't want to leave for the US without telling you how I feel becau I don't know when I'll be coming back, if I come back at all, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life wondering "what if". I don't really have anything to lo anyway. So here goes: I've liked you since the day I first met you, and I know you have this view of me that I'm immature and unsteady, but I'm not the playboy that you em to think I am. If you just give me one chance to show you what kind of guy I really am, I think we could be really happy together. I think I'm a pretty nice guy; I've stayed friends with all of my exes, not that I'm thinking about when and if we ever become exes, becau we haven't even started yet, but…I know this is sudden and I'm probably babbling like an idiot, but does any of this sound at all good to you?
Sabrina: James…I really appreciate you telling me your feelings, and I do think you're a nice guy who could make the right girl very happy…
James: (interrupting) No, this isn't what I wanted to hear…
Sabrina: No no, plea hear me out ?C it's just that I've always thought of you as agood colleague and a friend, and while I'm really flattered by your feelings for me, I don't think I could think of you in that way mylf. We're pretty different people, you and I, and I'm of the belief that opposites don’t necessarily attract… I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really e mylf dating someone from such a different background. I want to eventually be with someone who shares the same values, who family could get along with mine, who understands where I'm coming from, becau relationships are hard enough without there being cultural barriers, you know? And more than that, right now I'm just enjoying being single, giving my all at work and eing my girlfriends in my downtime…I like not having to check in with someone constantly, working overtime without feeling guilty that someone's waiting up for me, going on spontaneous little trips with my friends whenever I want to. I just wouldn't be a
