时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Forming a Union


Norma: What is this? 


Jimmy: It’s a flyer for a meeting I’ve called to talk about forming a labor 1 union here. 


Norma: Here? Do you think the management will let us? 


Jimmy: They can’t stop us. We’re working longer and longer hours and we need to demand higher pay. We also need better work conditions and a say in hiring and firing procedures. All of us need to band together to have better bargaining power. 


Norma: I don’t know. I want to be better paid and to have job security like everybody else, but I’m afraid of what will happen when we start agitating 2


Jimmy: I’ll tell you what will happen: The management will finally hear what we have to say. With collective bargaining, the rank and file will get what we deserve, at long last. Are you in or out? 


Norma: I’ll have to think about it. 


Jimmy: He who hesitates is lost. 


Norma: Yes, but I was always taught to look before I leap. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 agitating
搅动( agitate的现在分词 ); 激怒; 使焦虑不安; (尤指为法律、社会状况的改变而)激烈争论
  • political groups agitating for social change 鼓吹社会变革的政治团体
  • They are agitating to assert autonomy. 他们正在鼓吹实行自治。
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accusators
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all-english
arlin
assisted suicide
axillary cataract
Beekes
blighia sapidas
bonding capacity
Br. & G.
break the fourth wall
Brispen
Brown's theory
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burgeys
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cepora aspasia olga
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cold lime-soda process
common skate
complimentees
constant-fall rating curve
controlled atmosphere
creep up
crop evapotranspiration
dense-bed viscosity
direct delayed reaction
distribution channels
electrinos
enterprise operative technology
ethnolinguist
exhilarates
explanandums
family Polygalaceae
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half-cell prtential
hand-hold infrared alarm
Heinrich Von Melk
indicator current
isotopic-spin selection rule
Kurukh
lateral angle of eye
laying of (pipe)line
light-pen sensitivity
Listooder
Manhattan Beach
Marinid
martempers
master control desk
matie-full
mean time to first failure
measured rate service
montesommaite
National Intelligence Community
neogaea
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NMP
non-metallic pipe
norephedrine
oculomotor nerve
open-account basis
optical double (star)
orthogonalized
pars intermedia lobi anterioris hypophyseos
pawl type cooling bed
petrary
photo-chemical smog
plutonic rocks
policapram
polppcptides
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production station
pyrazinecarbosylamide
quasiflexural fold
Ramic
regular lot
remarin
resulfurized
Rydberg series formula
sarkozys
sauvage
sheep rots
silver-store
sisters of mercy
solenichthyess
solution by logarithms
spark coil leak detector
spermathecal duct
sprinkler range
still image adjustment switch
triflest
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tylopilus nigropurpureus
Uphall
uranium peroxide
variational solution
Vitākri
working around
Xiaoqing
yeast one-hybrid system
yocum
yungas