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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allowable voltage
alternate direction
alternative dispute resolution (adr)
anaglyph process
angina tonsillaris
antithrombin III
Ascii terminal.
atactic abasias
badword
baiomys tayloris
Balikpapan
basic craft
batesme
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Bettendorff's reagent
bitter cress
blue brick
bndes
buse
calm water speed
coded light identification
college boys
colorway
combination circuit
computer clearing
dies fasti
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Dipolog
double-checked
energy attenuation
fiber dispersion
frictional divergence
glaucothoe
glycerinate
gryllacridids
halfwaiest
Hamman's disease
harvestable
hemlock parsley
honorable discharge
hot-forging
in-plane vibration
initiating
injection timing device
interactive routing
Jaffna Dist.
keep one's own advice
lancejack
locking torque
Lónafjördhur
Mandāwar
memory address counter
mixed delay
motivation analysis algorithm
mouldjoint
neckar rivers
non manufacturing costs
numerical approximation and analysis
operational path
outwait
paidology
particular kind of capitalist economy
payin
plus fours
poor conductor of heat
Popov's method
power law for wind shear
qualify a statement
recursion theorem
relative centrifugal force
relative radius
repellent net
rofelodine
sadalla
say to
Seboeis L.
shadow volume
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signores
silt loam
single density diskette
social stability
spongiest
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spori-
standard explicit method
swim fin
tail-tie
Tawaramoto
Temserin
thousand corn weight
tip of the spike
Tobol'sk
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unseductive
user pay
vadium vivium
verveine
voice imprint
Westco pump
wobble wheel roller
yentz