时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:VOA 商务英语


英语课
Dialog 1:
F: I hope Ms. Addison can consider the employee attitude in her decision.
M: I am sure she will. She understands that employees have to be happy in their jobs.
F: It they don’t have a good attitude, they won’t work well.
M: They have to have a good attitude during training too.
F: absolutely, especially when they are learning new skills.
M: like learning computer skills.
F: becoming computer literate 1 can be frustrating 2.
M: talk about having a bad attitude. (句型talk about ….. 表示深有同感)
―My employees have been with me for 25 years.
---Talk about loyalty 3.
Q: what should Ms.Addison consider? ---Employee attitude
Dialog 2:
New Words: minimize, initial cost, Bottom-line(实质问题;最终结果),downtime(停产时间)
F: This was a difficult decision for the board.
M: The bottom-line is always time and money.
F: True. We are concerned with the initial cost.
M: There are costs to both alternatives.
F:Costs in both time and money.
M: and of course, you don’t want any downtime.
F: There will be some lost time, but we have to minimize it.
M: As I said before, it all boils down to time and money。(归结为)
Q:What is the bottom-line? ----Time and money.
Dialog 3:
New words: split(分成),alternate(轮换)
F:To minimize down-time, we are going to do both on-the-job and off-site training.
M: How? By splitting the work force into two groups?
F:Half train off-site but during normal working hours
M: And the other half will train on the factory floor  with new machines.
F: By alternating the groups, we can keep production going.
M: that will minimize downtime, but you still have the oops factors.
F:  But the production will increase as soon as the workers are up to speed. (达到熟练程度,使知晓。)
――Hey, what are you talking about?
-----Let me bring you up to speed.
M: Then you’ll be able to keep up with the detailer’s demand.
F: And keep our workers.
M: Sounds like a win-win situation.
Q: when will workers be trained? ---Both on the job and off-site.
 (9月7日)
Small talk:--回绝提议。
-----Let’s have a break and get some lunch.
----- I’d like to, but I can’t. I am too busy (I’d like to, but not with you).
(I have another appointment)
(I don’t feel well)
--How do you think the meeting went?
--Fantastic.
--Let’s come to another one.


1 literate
n.学者;adj.精通文学的,受过教育的
  • Only a few of the nation's peasants are literate.这个国家的农民中只有少数人能识字。
  • A literate person can get knowledge through reading many books.一个受过教育的人可以通过读书而获得知识。
2 frustrating
adj.产生挫折的,使人沮丧的,令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
  • It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间,真令人懊恼。
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 loyalty
n.忠诚,忠心
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
学英语单词
-ette
.pab
Algonquian languages
Aringa
average core transit time
bell-founder
Bilatan I.
billet
boiler door
bourding
break-point halt
Broad Sound
calibrated mount
choloepus didactyluss
clammer
completet deck
crap shooting
deoxynucleoside(deoxyribonucleoside)
dip moulding
displacement applications
downplayers
draw lift
dunches
electronic reading machine
elliptica
emitter-coupled monostable circuit
endocardial fibroelastosis
equitable consideration
establishings
fixed weight system
gain sharing system
germinal cell
gifted
granitical
grunberg
Gymnarchidae
halesia tetrapteras
hydraulic booster
hyper-growth
incremental display
inertial torque
ingeniary
intelligent (computer) terminal
itochondria
Jansky, Karl
jewish-christian
jonas distincta
Jylland
keckite
lanham
leonardus
liberty islands
limiting moving contact current
linscomb
mahmoods
marine environmental criteria
medlams
orienting
out of all Scotch
oxazepane
Oxoindole
parasol cell
passive electronic countermeasures (pecm)
pockhole
polyphenol
press pouring furnace
pressure unloading
propagation of very low frequency radio wave
quintessentialising
radio isotope
rauti
reductants
rendzinification
rhubarbs
sane person
screwing that
sesamoiditis
shepherding
shit talking
Sinovac
sivel
solubilizing agent
stretch'd
surplus banking
tail of the eye
tbl.
the sort of
to lower a boat
translation mode
tricloretic
tripody
ultrafitration theory
user label exit routine
variable mu
virginia fa.
virtual i/o instruction
visible LEDs
watertight pitch
wax pattern preparation
weare
worlie
yemeni monetary units