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。
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additional constant
alkali resistant cement concrete flooring
anal plate
annealing deposit
array module
Ascaridoidea
axial-force
band-pass network
battery cells
Bekok
belt-type permanentmagnet separator
big-wig
black-out lamp
Blackstripe
books sort
brassish
Burgers vector
bushtits
capitalist democratization
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clarence major
corah
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cutter reel
deducibility
disconsolate
disreputableness
double-layer interconnection
egg-laying spawning season
encarsia guadeloupae
Euproctis pseudoconsphersa
external shock diffusers
extesticulate
extrajection
geodesic latitude
give cause for
golden yearss
hail observing network
have a weak stomach
headgear
in-process
internal reticular apparatus
jisei
Kazumba
lagomorphic
lampad
leaf-mimicking fish
left avertence
life-cycles
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live roll
local dose rate
lorch
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mast fittings
moon pool
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nilpotent algebraic group
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orianna
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take the wraps off
tekkamaki
test gas
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true rolling bit
vampirologist
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Walker Air Force Base
wannish
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