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
achromatopsias
airborne magnetic gradiometer
analytical atomic spectroscopy
anhingas
aromatherapy
back to back with
buy on balance
Calamus compsostachys
character raster pattern
cleap
close joint chain
Colonia Josefa
commercial treaties
counterweighs
downtoners
DTPS
easy flow bin
estimation of population mean
falda
feed-in
finishing scouring
friction-twist draw-texturing machine
fully ventilated propeller
genus Lutra
glodean
gray scale morphology
guagua
Hugoniot equation
incommodity
interjectionary
jelly drink
liner service
mercury treadle
miyata
momordicine
monosyllables
multi channel fiber cable
nationalrats
navigator's compartment
neocentropogon japonicus
neurility
neurological disorders
nimbier
nonexhibited
nontransitively
observant participation
odd or even parity
operand segment
paralichthys dentatuss
partial read pulse
partially plane polarized
PENTACEROTIDAE
permanent flooded tank
philosophorum
plastic structural cladding
poblaciones
priming detector
PRML
public bond
Pushchino
Qobad, Chāh-e
r-f emission band-width
radio-frequency component
ramibaculate
rectifier with constant current output
regression speed
right of access to the media
roller mill
schlage
semi-sunk switch
settlement of exchange
shavaldour
slacking up
slip of dislocation
slutted
socking pit crane
softnitriding
Spears, Britney
spinus tristiss
stable production
station dialling
sternbach
superexpress
T-coating
Taxodonta
telogony
Touch PC
trapping theory
Turbo C
twist untwist method
ultimate audit risk
unknowably
unsteady force
velutinate
vertical landing point
vital sign
vitamin additive
voleur (france)
xylaria juruensis
ymanned
yoghurd