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
acoustic damping parameter
actual sin
alternative depth
Barber, Samuel
beyonces
bruichladdich
budget study
Cajnice
Cayley graph
cextract
collapse model of corporate image
commutative primitive
concrete bathing and mixing plant
contray
coping style
crawler width
dcASM
deciseconds
demme
deslime
dextrinizing
distillate hold-up tank
divvies
edeagra
electronical integration assembly
eloping
eurotra
eutopium chelate laser
flexible polymer
free setting ratio
frictionary
g-cal,g-cal.
Gaius Cassius Longinus
giant oarfish
graphic symbol
Great Abaco
guaethol
heartachingly
hexosemonophosphate pathway
ideation management
information group seperator
internetize
inworks
ISDS
Islamophile
kamimuria lepida
labour saving device
lexical redundancy rule
main patent
mantel-tree
material requested
maturation zone
maximum water holding capacity
MEAP
merchandise inventory initial
mode simulator
mpri
n-resonance
NAPG
nazek
NPRINT
oil gaging tape
olazbal
operating system service
ototoxicology
paddy field
pail for used dressings
pepsinogen-ii
picture synchronization transmission system
platinum-wire ring
PMS
popistry
Presumed Choice of Law
radial armature
rammer
recompensers
reinventive
renipelvic
resin catcher
right most terminal set
rudder-head shaft
self-cleaning contacts
Serratia marcescens
sexual harassment in the workplace
sit for the examination
skill worker
stand someone up
steinhorn
stratocumuli
Strömfors
study hall
subsultive
talent introduction
tertiary constriction
tie something up
tolui
torpedo testing barge
unaddicted
Valley Stream
variable geometry aircraft
whitemetal lining
wrastle