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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AAYF
activated cross-slip
anesthesiology department
antecedent and consequent
arsepane
battledore boy
biofidelity
bipolar sexuality
birth trauma
Blanquilla, Sa.
blast furnace matte
Bolen test
bonded beam
bulkhead stop valve
Campbell ejector
channel of electrostatic leakage
chelminski
Clairvaux-les-Lacs
communication loop
consolidating layer
cross shuttle belt conveyer
daldinia concentrica (bolt) ces. et de not.
dawns on
debug support system field description
decay particle
democratic morality
depair
ditrochaic
duodenal tube
erythrina
essential fever
fascia praevertebralis
fire-resisting covering
fouling tendency
glide reflection plane
governor motor
grinn
hang-out road
heteroplasms
highlight-to-lowlight ratio
Horsten
hot-air syringe
improved mutton
interval series
Kehrer's sign
lauren
lebowas
leogrande
linear network method
linkage-mounted harvester
loan car
man machine process chart
maneuverability and control caracteristics
market-orientated
mceuen
meanwhiles
medalled
melilite-nephelinite
meningeal vein
micrococcus aurantiacus
midmeal
mirabilysin
nodon valve
non-elastic closure
nudist community
Omo Ranch
Pauling electronegativity scale
Penagen-VK
photoelectrical magnitude
phrase-structure
polentinos
port,harbor
poverty-level
preprophase
problem-solving capability
quiet days
quitclaimance
Rangoonese
rappard
reel sequence number
retardations
Rumyantsevo
savanah
scowen
segmentation movement
semi-able-bodied labor force
Sennokura-yama
Sliven
special unemployment assistance
standard target
storage function
supporting pin
tabled scarf joint
the curies
thermal retardation coefficient
trichomata
tunneling lifetime
tylosurus acus melanotus
underhead crack
unichoke
weaver finch
zeugenberg(outlier butte temoin)