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
Advisory Subcommittee on Market Condition
air cooled transformer
ANS (automatic noise suppressor)
antiquarks
antispammers
asbestos roofing felt
assessor of the vice-chanceller
balanced ration
bandpass
besmirch
biocybernetic
boidinia macrospora
bootles
candlepinss
chromidium
close time
coordinate tetrahedron
counteraccuse
country dummy coefficient
crew neckline
Demra
department of industry
dictyonalia
differential unit
dira
dwarf cattle
dysomia
fantasists
Feuerbach, Ludwig
four-way junction
function
Fétékou
glasner
gonging
granuloma malignum
gullop
hackled strick
half through girder
halite structure
hemophilic arthosis
hideboundness
high speed multiply
hold this
holland code
IL-1
Indigofera bungeana
ion-exchange resin catalysts
Italianating
jackson personality inventory-revised (jpi-r)
kompogas
Kéniégué
lower order byte
main condenser air ejector
measure ... against
mihalic
mobile-network
multichannel gamma-ray spectrometer
multistratum comparative panel survey
my heart bleeds for sb
nonclay
nonemployment
o'
obstaculous
occupational and safety hazard organization
oil-gas spring
on the rack
paraspecific
peg-like
plastochron
popularise
presequences
President Harrison
private carrier
process control operating system
prospectin'
purity (of a colour stimulus)
Pushto(o), Pushtu
rated load torque
rebound valve
remaining of bran
renormalized vertex
reprivatizes
resembling rose
return shipping order
rock salts
scientific computing
scientific intelligence
screen of death
semenovich
semienclosed
shadow merge insert
sodium sozoiodolate
SPCUM
spray roasting
stamp dealers
succession mortis causa
supermind
Terrietia trifoliolata
theophorous
three-dimensional geodesy