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
Alfven velocity
analog-digital computing system
Augsburg
autogolpe
bawdress
be on the pounce
behrendt mts.
chromotrichial factor
complete revolution
contact (thermal) resistance
cooling bay
cornishmen
cowin
Della Robbia,Luca
development age
direct view storage display
doubly connected surfaces
drag sails
dust centrifuge
dysprosium carbonate
each line
earnings of capital
electrostatically
elementary level
epicrisis
export label
fault desk
fimbrillate
frehleys
ghostwriting
Gimsφy
gradual decrease
Hogg, Helen S.
hot-dip tinning stack
HYDR
hyperplasias
i-told-you-so
ichnomorphology
incenses
inclined ray paths
Iraqiness
irritative miosis
John Evelyn
k.l
land of plenty
law relating to bill of exchange
luvale
mannoglucose
maxwell relationship
mbuji-mayis
medial longitudinal arch
membership dues
Midouze
mixing pattern
moving stage
mus wagneri
Neshkoro
occupational pension scheme
optical relay
other party
over type
parished
payment health policy
Pethor
Pitot's tubes
prime frame
push-pull quintupler
rawhide laced joint
regiones parotideomasseterica
reinvent the wheel
resistance-type potential divider
response length
school fair
Scorzonera ensifolia
shabroon
shipbuilding drydock
side heading method
six-three-three plan
small scale integrated circuit (ssi)
snail-horn
soybean plants
special acceptance
squishy
stannary towns
Stauriidae
stewartia gemmata chine.et cheng
subacetates
subcingulum
Taimali Township
the three P's of the Middle East
tilsner
travelog
trenching experiment
Tset
unburned combustible in sifting
underwater dune
unequal activation center
upon your legs
uroflavin
variable stroke metering
vegetative bud
woofier