时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:职场礼节英语


英语课

 陈豪在北京的ABC美国公司工作。他在走廊里遇到了美国同事Amy。


 
C:Amy,你有时间吗?
 
A:Sure,什么事?
 
C:Todd这个人真是很奇怪。有时候,我打电话给他,他明明在办公室里,而且也不忙,可他就是不接电话。我只好在电话里给他留言,可他好几个小时才回电话,有时根本就不回。
 
A:How does that make you feel?
 
C:让我觉得自己无足轻重。我不愿意跟他共事。
 
A:That happens when we use voice mail to hide from other people. Voice mail makes it easy to ignore callers.
 
C:我有的时候也不接电话,让打电话的人留言,比如手头工作急着要完成的时候。Is that wrong?
 
A:No. That's a perfect reason to use voice mail. All of us have times when we need to work without interruption.
 
C:可是有些人从来不接电话,电话打过去,一定是留言。这样下次谁还会找你呢?
 
A:没错。It doesn't take long for people to determine who is responsive and values their callers, and they call those people instead.
 
C:他们这样做不仅会得罪人,还会失去很多机会。我倒要看看,这个Todd什么时候才会回我的电话。
 
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Amy第二天午饭时间又遇到了陈豪。
 
A:CH, I am curious. Did Todd ever call you back yesterday?
 
C:NO. 他一直没给我回电话。我觉得他这样做非常不礼貌。
 
A:Totally rude. It is quite one thing to use your voice mail when you can't be interrupted, but to use it
 
all day for your own convenience is disrespectful of other people and their time.
 
C:这确实是对我的一种不尊重。说实话,如果能从别人那里得到我需要的信息,我以后是不会再去找他的。我觉得Todd不是那种能愉快共事的人。
 
A:There are people who think that they are too important to answer their own phone and always use voice mail or someone else to answer for them.
 
C:不过,据我所知,一些非常成功的人士反倒有时间亲自接电话。Amy, 一般情况下,我们什么时候可以让别人留言而不失礼呢?
 
A:Send your calls to voice mail when you have someone in your office, when you need to concentrate on a project or when you are away from your desk.
 
C:噢,办公室里正好有人在谈事儿的时候,手头有工作赶着要完成的时候,或是不在办公室的时候,这些时候都可以让别人在电话上留言。
 
A:Otherwise, if your job or your business depends on relationships with other people, make yourself available.
 
C:对呀,不管是谁,打电话都希望能找到自己要找的人。



学英语单词
a toad under a harrow
accismus
administrative and budgetary committee
all is well
alumina block
aluminum isopropoxide
antitonic regression
bag-type
baphia nitidas
bonstay
bord-land
carousers
Chulilla
coffice
continuously variable thrust control
Corley-Denis' method
CYH
cystathioninemia
data control/security
data directed transmission
deck appliance
delusion of being loved
dental ankylosis
Dioctophymoidea
disdeify
dorsal ganglion (or spinal ganglion)
edmistons
Effontil
externally-pulsed system
Extremadura
fides
forebody chine
frambesioma
fret saw frame
gastrointestinal radiation effects
genus Emilia
goethals
goofoff
ground water cleaning
grumble
homokaryosis
illuminating colours
infrared heat
intergalactic cloud
intimous
is-my
Kittel overflow tray
light purple
little brain
long work
longdog
low manganess steel
lung books
Macleantown
made myself scarce
make marks on
malamanteau
mamita
manic phase
marshalship
narrow disk harrow
national television standards committee video
nervi articularis
non spiking pulsed laser
Oospora
oratory
osteosis cutis
Ottenbach
petrusky
photometer field
pinnatodentate
plansheer
plasmodicidal
power dump
pretenture
primecap
productive management
projective transformation group
proslepsis
protosystem
remittance from home office
republishings
roderigoes
saefs
Saint-Fargeau
schriever
slight cold
source linkage
spatilization of time
splinter hemorrhage
strangler figs
teaed
The Savior
tonsil hemostat
unemployment rate
unquashable
vena jugularis dextra
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
voltage eligibility rate
Vorgashor
walkist
wedge wire screen