时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Working Shifts 


Lisette: You’re the new kid on the block, aren’t you? 


Danny: Yeah, it’s my first day. 


Lisette: I’m Lisette. 


Danny: I’m Danny. Nice to meet you. 


Lisette: You’re lucky to be starting on the day shift. When I started working here umpteen 1 years ago, I had to work the graveyard 2 shift for two years before I got the day shift. 


Danny: I guess I am lucky, but I wouldn’t mind working any shift, even double shifts, once I get up to speed. My wife and I are expecting our first child and we need to save up. 


Lisette: Oh, yeah? Congratulations! Well, there are always people who want time off and need someone to cover for them. You can usually pick up extra hours and shifts that way. Sometimes, there’s even overtime 3, but the veteran workers get first dibs. 


Danny: I can understand that. Well, if you ever need anybody to cover for you, just give me a shout. 


Lisette: All right, I’ll keep it in mind. Maybe I can help you save up for a diaper or two. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 umpteen
adj.多的,大量的;n.许许多多
  • That punk got into umpteen fights.那个混混打斗无数。
  • I told him umpteen times,and yet he can't remember.我跟他说过好几百回了,可是他就是记不住。
2 graveyard
n.坟场
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
3 overtime
adj.超时的,加班的;adv.加班地
  • They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
  • He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。
学英语单词
absolutely stable
agaricus arvenses
air freighter
air-admitting surface
algoa b.
antimony iodide
antireductionist
appear on
aroer
arrival point
assume the mask of
attends
automatic service profile identifier
awilda
backstrap loom
bed-ground
begs the question
blistering
blood letting
body of coal
booking space
bookmatch
broad-band tube
broad-flange column
capacitor case rupture
cartha
check post
chemico-mechanical polishing
coarse control element
code bit
conventional resistivity logging
cooling brine
Cuautepec
deflouring
direct sequence CDMA, DS CDMA
eohippuses
fibrous (packed) bed filter
field release
FIRE BOLT
football game
gas-containing level in electrolyte
gelatin extra
graphite lubricating oil
hamlock
have someone's life in one's hands
inhomogeneos semiconductor
Karatsuba multiplications
kernel-based system
kiosklike
leptocephali
leptolegniella piligena
line of baring
liquidated damages provision
low pressure casting
mite boxes
mixed batch
moatley
moment of flywheel
moratorry
Muscogee County
musk
nano-watts
nanobores
neutron irradiation
nifurquinazol
night-lives
not a cat in hell's not a cat's chance
obtusion
onion-domed
open-air breather
operation code trap
Paine, Albert Bigelow
partman
perfectly separable
pneumatic pressure device
Pokanayevka
posterior ramus
prolapse of the rectum
propositional representation
pulverizing machine by periodical action
repair action
repeat transmission
rich and poor
rudows
SCABP
schulenberg
set column markers
Shaglyteniz, Ozero
shoal harbour
slagging test
sodium phosphate (tribasic)
stage-dives
tell-talest
Ti plasmid
tin weighting
tomlinsons
Trigonostemon howii
uncollided neutron
unimpededly
Volvi, Limni
xanthates
yes-or-no