时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是方方要问的:跟班打杂的。

Donny: Hey, Fang 1 Fang, what's up? Do you like your new job?

FF: 啊,还行吧。就是初来乍到,专业一点都用不上,尽打杂了。

Donny: 打杂?What do you do everyday?

FF: 无非就是复印文件,取东西,接电话什么的。哎?美国人怎么形容这种工作啊?

Donny: Oh! Someone who does small and unimportant tasks at work is called a go-for. g-o-f-o-r, go-for.

FF: 哦! 这么说,go-for 就是公司里的小弟小妹! go-for 的主要工作就是跑腿儿。那“跑腿”又怎么说呢?

Donny: We say they "run errands for others." Run is spelled r-u-n, errands is spelled e-r-r-a-n-d-s. The word "errand" means a short trip that's taken to finish a necessary task.

FF: Errand 差事,复数加s, errands, 所以 run errands for others 就是替别人“跑腿”的意思。

Donny: That's right. I guess you don't really like running errands for your boss, right?

FF: 是啊,我想做有意义的工作,可老板总让我干些没用的活儿。

Donny: She gives you a lot of busy work, I'm assuming? The phrase "busy work" refers to tasks that keep people busy but are not very useful.

FF: 哦! 原来,busy work 就是花时间,但没意义的工作。老板给我 busy work,并不是因为这些工作重要,而是因为她不愿意看我闲着!

Donny: That's right! Fangfang, a lot of people start as go-fors and work their way up. I'm sure you'll do just fine. Now let's see what you've learned today!

FF: 公司里跑腿打杂的小弟小妹叫 go-for;

跑腿是 run errands for others;

消磨时间,但是没意义的工作是 busy work.



1 fang
n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
学英语单词
ammoninted
anarthrous
anodic partial current
aristopop
back gate
back oars
Behring's tuberculin
biometers
borax-bead
bubble size
bufagenins
bulky tone
bump s and grind
chalnicon
de-hydration
defrosting room
double row of dots
doush
dromomerycid
Dual Natures of Collision Regulations
electuoplaques
enloes
equipotential cathode
experimental isostasy
firm joint
flammer
genus digitarias
grabbit hook
green dye
grid-work
gronkjaer
HEWPR
high-volatile coals
hold tack
homotene
inverse Laplace transform
ion-capture theory
Jacobina
Kardzhin
ketatosis pilaris
kuiperoid
law dog
linking jig
longitudinal travel of threading tool rest
loop ruche
lowest possible price
lyable
Microtoena mollis
mis-communication
mitev
nasmyths
nemophila menziesiis
neophyosis
next nearest neighbour atom
noisy text
non therapeutic
norlignan
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
outdoorings
oxychalcogenides
oyster beds
pandava
paste names
patif
perfusion scanning
play-moneys
potch
punctate
pure winter weasel's hair brush
pyoverdins
reprover
reservoir protection forest
retightened
rheotrophic organism
rhytidophylla
rubrications
Sargent, John Singer
sealiah
segmentation fault
short sightedness
Sicignano
side - cut (distillate)
single-sex college
sky background noise
spread income
sun-cracking
syringotomes
systema nervosum periphericums
tanbark oaks
telemetering system of pipe
the ebb and flow of life
the feathered race
tilted antenna
Tongnim
town safeguard and construction tax
trimming lever
turbo-hydraulic machine
Vouoro
waveform distortion factor
woodpigeon
xenophobically
Zuazo de Cuartango