时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Pink slip,粉红色的小纸片?可别误以为是一封浪漫的情书呀,其实,pink slip是一种最残忍的东西——解雇通知书!


  Pink slip也叫做walking papers,可以追溯到20世纪初期,表示“在发给员工的周薪信封里放一张粉红色的小纸条,通知员工解雇的“噩耗”。至于为什么要用粉红色,一方面是为了避免和其他的资料混在一起,以免员工因疏忽没看到通知;另一方面也许是因为粉红色相对比较柔和,可能会对被解雇员工“受伤的心灵”产生一点慰藉作用吧!


  现在,互联网的流行使一切都能像一封电子邮件那么简单快捷,但是pink slip这种说法,还是“顽固”地保留了下来,成为一个带着伤心、也意味着改变的词。


  不过,在我们的职业生涯中,“I am pink slipped”这句话还是不说为妙,宁可说:I dismiss my boss. 









学英语单词
anti-androgens
Any Tom
articulated support
autoweighing
batrachian
bleeding stop
blending
brangle
Britishize
bundesgerichtshofs
capclothes
Caridan
casting-pit
catalytic activities
center line stake
Chaplygin equation
character release
citatepine
clavicular fracture
clitorizing
common ash
commutation clause
component parts
conducing
congruential generator
continuous automatic measurement
coprisoner
decentralized computing system
disqualifications
Edge Buildup
eigenfunctions
emelina
end absorption
exaggerated vertical scale
fermentation pathway
financial report
grand strategy
Hampton Bishop
hemicompatible (buller 1931)
hexesterole
hohenemser
homographic replication
in the way of
inflated value
inorganic oxidation
intraperson
Isge
Isothiazolylmethylpenicillin
Jebbies
jet hopper
jones mt.
keep one's an ear to the ground
l'interieur
laminated barrel
Langmuir adsorption
lanthanum 140
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
manche-present
membranous atresia of anus
Mexican Sign Language
monoethylmalonate
Nader's raider
nonadverse
nonasynchronous
nutramines
odgen
plasmolysis
playsafes
programme clock
protein adhesive
r-cycle
radio-autograph
restringency
Riegel's symptom
saynors
serial read port
shaft-position indicator
shraum
siassi
sign control symbol
sleep efficiency (se)
slidometers
sling the bat
sonic reflection
spf
stenogastrine
sugar crop
syndactyly of finger tip
teachress
thermo-compressor
timbaland
total residual sugar
transportation clearance
U.K.A.E.A.
unconess
unit of cargo
vesatour
virtual machine configuration
virtual pitch circle
water-taxis
wiping rag
wraxall