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。
学英语单词
Abā Sa'ūd
accout in balance
asymmetrical polyphase
backstrokers
bathmophobia
Boord olefin synthesis
brent-geese
bromotrifluoromethane gas system
buoyancy production rate
cains minor
canonical resolution
cherli
chuckster
ciccotti
collection of random event
community welfare department
community-wide
commutation of penalty
continuous games
cornfield meets
cullion
curlewis
Dadafui
de-aerator
diaecious
dilater
disrecommending
drive sale
enabling
ENDFILE statement
ethylene oxide
finger steaks
gelong
global mode
gold on paper
graminicolous
halch
hot-pilot
hupple
hydromucker
Inarticulata
incarcerated individual
indoor hydro-electric station
interpenetrative
karrons
l'avantage
leucoblasts
limited war
LOGLAN (logical language)
macroscopic stability
Maria Island
MENUITEM
mesometanephros
microphoto-electric photometer
milgaard
mineral-bearing
moderate pruning
momentum integral method
monophasic action potential
moral norm
multi-stage volute pump
musculi thyreohyoideus
mz
native-like
non-adjusting blade
normal spectral measure space
oceanfronts
PINO (positive-input negative-output)
pioneer drift method
ploughed field
postprogram
pre-axal
precipitation ga(u)ge
predispersing monochromator
program termination processing
pseudo random numbers
public green space norm
Qing stone
quinet
reset signal
rudder deflecting rate
sandy silt of low liquid limit
skew jet type atomizer
sperchon uchidai
spleitis
stoneboat
sulphide sulfur
swordlet
symmetric parametric programming
terrace cropping
transcellular osmosis
trinchera
unmortgaged
unpunched
unwanted sound
vulnific
wall cress
Wilhelm screams
work-boat
wykes
xxviest
yirn