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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aloetical
Altynvka
androgenies
anticreep system
bacillus saprogenes vini
central cone
Chow Chows
commerical receiver
conventment
crime of kidnapping for ransom
customers' credit balance
data code
dimorphisms
drezen
dry vanning
dyeware
ectoplasmic organelle
Elzevirian
enimont
enthalpy of combustion
environmental-bio-logical impact
fat splitting
figueroa
final drive reduction
Fort Recovery
friendlihead
fructolysis
gonosomite
gormandizing
gosstandards
grip device
gropest
guied roll
have it on sb
helveticoside
hildebrands
holosericea
hydegild
hypnodendron reinwardtii
immediate elastic recovery
Indo-Portuguese
insert/fill columns
intermediate credit bank
international loadline exemption certificate
K'obo
kilonem
lactans
Ld.
letter of request
lizano
loads of something
long price
lower fungus
machine nut tap
macrolymphocyte
manual gear shifting
marine transportation engineering
marken
Mayu, Pulau
minsing
multiple conveyer dryer
nastistical
noting a bill
Olives, Mount of
opium plaster
other-expectations
partial stapedectomy
pay actual computer time
pinch-discharge excitation
plenargyrite
power cutback system
problem solving ability
pseudopalisading
quantity method
reaccrete
read output
renal scintigraphic agent
resiratoryp sedative
reverse grading
rubbing crack
Schamberg's disease
seceding
sectionalist
seeing someone off
selection level meter
suicide nets
tenontothecitis stenosans
theory of moduli
tower sprayer
transignification
transview
treete
tutela dativa
two-ply stock
unstifled
unsubordinated
wage-insurance
warbrace
ways of going about tax evasion
year round
zephiran
zero base