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
after potential
air-equivalent scintillation detector
Akhegarh
allergen group code/mnemonic/ description
aluminium alloy for extra low temperature service
beewolf
bell nozzle
bessey
bounded measure of probability
branmeal
break one's habit
Brown antenna
bumblebees
by request of
choreutis semicincta
coda-like
Colón, I.de
composition in lettering
conventional heat treatement
cross-section error component
cubby
cycladic civilizations
Dee-o Dee-o
digit gap
distributed test
divinizing
double hatches
drag link end plug
electric hair clipper
Eusimulium avidum
exception character handling
fetch quest
film intensity measuring device
for deposit only
forestry map
funtowicz
gate turn off thyristor
go over the top
gold standards
hermen
hetegony
heterogeneous marriage
high speed wheel
hybrid state equations
illegitimate warfare
immersed germ band
immersion magnet
inhuman weapons
isotope fraction
JDT
Kendallville
loose detail mold
looves
market information system (mis)
maximum warm-up speed
memory chip
methylidyne-
mineral soap
MXN
nerve fibre
nonmonetarists
nonsingular surface
off-line power supply
oil filter cartridge support
on the feed
oxaloacetic
painted lacquer
pile cluster
plasma free fatty acid
polymer emulsion
porcupine anteater
proandrogen
product improvement
pseudochromia
rate of rise restriking voltage
red roan
resident maintenance program
Sca1p
scan string
secretory reaction
sectional conversion
self-checking numeral
serothorax
slighdy
Small business policy
spring standing
stop-limit order
sulibao
suspended microphone
tellurite
tomato pastes
triiodothyronines
trypanosomiases
Underwriting income
underwriting margin
vicennial
water mo(u)ld
wood boring lathe
Xewkija
yatama
zingy