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
absorptionmetric determination
acidophilous indicator plant
acute lymphocytic leukemia
Afrofuturists
aggresome
ammoniacs
annents
anterior surface of petrous part
Aqshatau
balanced 3-phase voltage
Barre's pyramidal sign
Bessmertnovite
bitonic sort
blintzes
blows chunks
boat load
canady
car operation
Centronellidina
certificate of award
channel gating
check abuse
co-parented
cobalt-ocher
conga ( drums )
conical flask
cyane
cyberstyle
data of location survey
defensive instinct disturbance
doffing mechanism
E-Forth
evaporation residue
ezed
face saver
fire engine red
fishpole antenna
folliculinum aquosum
frilled lizards
futures contract
gain-yield
gash lead error
high diving
hitchments
individual project
inertia weights
institute a claim
IRM (intermediate range monitor)
isoplethic curve
John Haldane
keratinosome
keyed agc
Krukenberg's arm
laundrymaid
leak test pressure
longclaw
magnetic blow out arrestor
mala
mantuary
medial occipitotemporal gyrus
medicotopographical
Mesoxan
midsouth
mollified
neutralized system
Noblejas
noncombining
optimal minimax regret
oral herpes
phantom item
pressoceptor
prunus pilosiuscula koehne
purinaemia
quadrature phase splitting circuit
record-company
recording reel
reverse zoning
Ribāt Hashim
ring flange mounting screw
seawater-resistant grease
second part (duodenum)
sediment transport capacity
seting
shimaoka
skidding trail
skip-welding
slsisosns-s
sorboside
spatial dimensions of economics
standard lens
stationbuoy
take one's point
Tarnier's sign
thalictrum urbaini
the gentle sex
the gloaming
tier market
toddelling
vaginans
wetting-out
whiffletree switch
white-tippeds