时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:Take Away English


英语课






People in a business meeting
Are they thinking outside the box?





Most people like using short-cuts. We all usually want to get from A to B as quickly as possible and when we want to get our message across to people with the same job as us, we often use jargon 1. It's a kind of short-cut that helps us communicate without wasting time. Jargon is simply a kind of language shorthand 2 that lets us say what we mean quickly. Or is it?

In the business world you might expect to hear or use a lot of jargon. However, a report just out in Britain claims that most managers overuse business jargon and that this has a negative effect on how staff feel.


Investors 3 in People - a public body whose main stakeholder is the Department for Education and Skills – says that using terms like "blue-sky thinking" rather than saying more plainly "imagine new or different ways of doing things" baffles 4 employees and widens the gap between managers and staff.


Most employees in Britain, according to this survey, have a low opinion of colleagues who use management jargon. Over a third of those surveyed think it shows a lack of confidence and almost one in five think people who use it are untrustworthy or trying to cover something up.


Some of the most overused business expressions that fell foul 5 of those surveyed (and their more straightforward 6 explanations) were:


Get our ducks in a row (have everything arranged efficiently), brain dump (tell everything you know about a particular subject) and think outside the box (be creative in how you think about problems).


Peter Russian from Investors in People said that an effective boss is one who can communicate in a way which everyone can easily understand not one who uses a lot of management jargon.


So now that you've got the helicopter view (just an overview) of business jargon, it's time to give you a heads up (a warning) not to overuse this management speak. But that's a real no-brainer (that's simple), isn't it?







GLOSSARY 词汇表


 








short-cuts
捷径




wasting time
浪费时间




overuse
过分使用




a public body
公共机构




plainly
简单地;明白地




widens the gap between
加大鸿沟




a low opinion of
不赞赏




untrustworthy
不值得信任的




fell foul
最不赞同;有争议




creative
有创造力的






jargon
行话;专业语




shorthand
速记




investors
投资人




stakeholder
股东




baffles
使困惑




survey
统计调查




a lack of confidence
缺乏信心




cover something up
掩盖什么东西




straightforward
直截了当




effective
有效力的








 




n.术语,行话
  • They will not hear critics with their horrible jargon.他们不愿意听到评论家们那些可怕的行话。
  • It is important not to be overawed by the mathematical jargon.要紧的是不要被数学的术语所吓倒.
n.速记,速记法
  • The reporters took down the speech in shorthand.记者们迅速记下讲话的内容。
  • Instead of writing her shorthand by hand,she could use a machine.她可以不用手,而使用一种带键盘的机器进行速记。
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.隔板,挡板,反射板( baffle的名词复数 )v.使困难,使为难( baffle的第三人称单数 )
  • His behaviour baffles me. 他的行为使我难以琢磨。
  • The case baffles the skill of our most experienced medical men. 这一病例使我们最有经验的医生也无法施展其医术。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
adj.正直的,坦率的;易懂的,简单的
  • A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
  • I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。
学英语单词
-just
17-hydroxycorticosteroid
40
absorbent papers
Actinidia polygama
alphanumeric characters
another story
aquileges
Armenophobes
bassen'd
basting brush
berberidaceaes
biennia
Brinell microscope
bung down
chewing insect
co2 incubation
computer simulation for dyeing process
Coogoon R.
Cuttack
definite proportion
dicranella rufescence (dicks.) schimp.
esse
evomitation
EWNP
exhalants
extruded aluminum
final-salary
friction gearing
general bill of lading
germon
grouping of population
hairspring type
helianthus laetifloruss
heterodimerises
high level efficiency
Home Bias
in a ratio of
jumping wheel jumper
keep one's eye upon
kind of work
kiss of life
labeled common block name
liquid penetration inspection
Lučani
m.c.
Machiavel
Malyy Yenisey
mammy wagon
matrix in block form
metaremarks
misrouteing
Mitomi
modal notation
modulo reduction
monniker
multicuspid teeth
national enquiry
olibene
optimal control equation
orbital branch
outsiderhood
overhead counter shaft
overmodulated
pantograph frame
penirolol
plant lectin
plate and tube condenser
plea to indictment
Porm
potassium octaborate
preachership
purpura of the newborn
resmelting
rockallia jongkuei
rustle ... up
sacred kingfisher
sand preparation plant
Sao Jorge do Limpopo
screamadelicas
secting
seppanen
series-parallel starter
shift register generator
shoal detector
social indicators movement
Spurway syndrome
stair turret
steady-state approximation
surface shape
tall gallberry hollies
temporal and spatial variation
tetraphenylborates
throat-paint
to snake
triethylammonium
Tussabid
usles
veggiedog
vestibular branches
yellow trefoil