时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Most people like using short-cuts. We all usually want to get from A to B as quickly as possible and when we want to get our message across to people with the same job as us, we often use jargon 1. It's a kind of short-cut that helps us communicate without wasting time. Jargon is simply a kind of language shorthand 2 that lets us say what we mean quickly. Or is it?


In the business world you might expect to hear or use a lot of jargon. However, a report just out in Britain claims that most managers overuse business jargon and that this has a negative effect on how staff feel.


Investors 3 in People - a public body whose main stakeholder is the Department for Education and Skills – says that using terms like "blue-sky thinking" rather than saying more plainly "imagine new or different ways of doing things" baffles 4 employees and widens the gap between managers and staff.


Most employees in Britain, according to this survey, have a low opinion of colleagues who use management jargon. Over a third of those surveyed think it shows a lack of confidence and almost one in five think people who use it are untrustworthy or trying to cover something up.


Some of the most overused business expressions that fell foul 5 of those surveyed (and their more straightforward 6 explanations) were:


Get our ducks in a row (have everything arranged efficiently), brain dump (tell everything you know about a particular subject) and think outside the box (be creative in how you think about problems).


Peter Russian from Investors in People said that an effective boss is one who can communicate in a way which everyone can easily understand not one who uses a lot of management jargon.


So now that you've got the helicopter view (just an overview) of business jargon, it's time to give you a heads up (a warning) not to overuse this management speak. But that's a real no-brainer (that's simple), isn't it?


GLOSSARY 词汇表


short-cuts捷径


jargon 行话;专业语  


wasting time 浪费时间


shorthand 速记 


overuse 过分使用


investors 投资人 


a public body 公共机构 


stakeholder 股东   


plainly 简单地;明白地 


baffles 使困惑 


widens the gap between 加大鸿沟   


survey 统计调查    


a low opinion of 不赞赏


a lack of confidence 缺乏信心  


untrustworthy 不值得信任的


cover something up 掩盖什么东西 


fell foul 最不赞同;有争议 


creative 有创造力的 


straightforward 直截了当  


effective 有效力的



n.术语,行话
  • They will not hear critics with their horrible jargon.他们不愿意听到评论家们那些可怕的行话。
  • It is important not to be overawed by the mathematical jargon.要紧的是不要被数学的术语所吓倒.
n.速记,速记法
  • The reporters took down the speech in shorthand.记者们迅速记下讲话的内容。
  • Instead of writing her shorthand by hand,she could use a machine.她可以不用手,而使用一种带键盘的机器进行速记。
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.隔板,挡板,反射板( baffle的名词复数 )v.使困难,使为难( baffle的第三人称单数 )
  • His behaviour baffles me. 他的行为使我难以琢磨。
  • The case baffles the skill of our most experienced medical men. 这一病例使我们最有经验的医生也无法施展其医术。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
adj.正直的,坦率的;易懂的,简单的
  • A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
  • I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。
学英语单词
abdominal cavities
accelerator ZDMC
agrip
alginic acid
anacanthus
anti-bottom quark
arrested failure
associated emission
banderol, banderole
basic separating
basosexine
Belling saccharimeter
bepitying
Biassini
bitterweeds
cammaron
capital of Oklahoma
change-over channel steamer
charge-storage diode
chloralkaline
chlorobenzyl chloride
cholecystokinin (cck)
complemeent (darlington 1932)
correlation analysis method
countervailing
deformation loss
detectable effect
dimethyldihydroresorcinol
direct-current grid bias
distributed feedback
dyadic array
electronic shower
Elsholtzia hunanensis
filter editor
food and beverage expenses
footlongs
glass reinforced concrete glass
grant woods
harangue
heading per steering compass
herringbone pipe
hewsons
hinchleys
Holter system
incipient incision
incipient scorch
Incomati (Komati)
internal strapped block
isoolivil
laser-Raman spectrometry
laxogenin
leakage and drip
Lisfranc's tubercle
lobes
macgregor hatch cover
maximum colour acuity
medium irrigated emulsion
metachromatic bodies
Molatón
Morinville
nabzenil
negotiated meaning
nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor
non-americans
offspringless
organizatory
Otego
Over-allotment option
OWRS
Panax schin-seng Nees
Passengers Ships in Inland Waters
pastoral stage
pentetate
petersen sir elutriator
phase interchange rate
Polygonum patulum
pteroxygonum giraldii dammer et diels
rabelo
relieve stress
schwalb
scratch resistance
seat cover for vehicle
security option
seen with half an eye
self starter
sequential data structure
setting-out work
shapiro-wilk test
side by side display
superimposed preeclampsia
sweated joint
telocollinites
tendon lengthening
thermal radiation destruction distance
topological relation
total equity
ultraviolet dwarf
uredinology
Vilyuy
virtual volume
volumetrics
xanthohumol