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. 









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Abezzou
adult orthodontics
advanced ignition timing
air defense rocket
anthro
aurophobia
basil-thyme
benign condition
benina
benzyl butyl sulfone
biliferous ducts
bothropotoxin
buphthalmos
chancellor democracy
clean and certify
clearview
cluster concept program
collapsed mandrel
colombard
coloproctosomy
contraction arch
convertible subordinate note
disjunctors
drop boxes
drop-leaf tables
duplex tandem compressor
El Lobo
excess stock
facilities management
facsimile marking machine
faxagent
fenetre
folliculated
foreheadedness
form stability
garnishry
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.
godfrey of bouillon
hanifah
Herrnhuter
inchoater
injury of thymus gland
intelligent authoring system
Jiquan
judicial settlement
lake marl
Lame constants
leading-in wire
LMR
macula corneae
mercuric bromide
Messejana
misgrafting
monomials
multi-spindle semiautomatic lathe
optical phenomenon
overmodest
pill tile
piston blower
Polygonacidites
polystyrene foam
postschool
power-assertive
prosternal epimeron
pseudochromis cyanotaenia
quinine dihydrobromide
quintille
ragtail
range of tides
rate of downward gradient
recalcitrant seed
Rivero, I.
roseborough
sarkis
saw up
Scutellaria tuminensis
sensitive to heat
slag characteristics
slimes
soelen
soil series
sound the all-clear
standard harizontal plane
stop frame
sulfur crack
Swertia kouitchensis
swine-sty
tarboosh
terminal difference
tier soil
trematodon tokinensis besch
Uinskiy Rayon
ultrathin-film capacitor
vasopil
vendor single interest insurance
VGA monitor
vinburnine
waldera
water storage layer
wave form calculator
woolmen
word process