时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Shivon: This bad economy is really taking its toll 1.



Lex: Tell me about it! My company has already laid off 20% of its workforce 2, and now the management is talking about cutting salaries. It goes without saying that there won’t be any bonuses this year.



Shivon: What are you complaining about? At least you still have a job. Try working as a freelancer 3. I’ve had to cut my hourly rate to compete with all of the people flooding the job market.



Lex: At least you’re still able to pick and choose your clients. I have to do what my bosses tell me, no matter what. If they say I have to work overtime 4, that’s what I have to do. I don’t even get compensated 5 for it! You can bill by the hour.



Shivon: What’s the good of billing by the hour if I don’t have any clients? You don’t know how good you have it. I don’t want to hear another word until you walk a mile in my shoes!



Lex: Ditto!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
n.自由职业者
  • He has great interest in working as a freelancer.他对做个自由职业人很感兴趣。
  • It's not always easy to make it as a freelancer.做个自由职业人,要能时常感觉满足,可不容易。
adj.超时的,加班的;adv.加班地
  • They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
  • He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
  • The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
学英语单词
agrochemists
argininosuccinic acid synthetase deficiency
aureomycin calcium
automatic system safety control device
bedgasm
belvoir
bo-peeper
cesky les
channel scanner
chiaroscuroes
cibaries
circuit admittance
clonal selective theory
coffee survices
coil block
creep-fatigue crack
cycle reset
division into regeneration areas
Drasenhofen
dual authority
economy class syndrome,Economy Class Syndrome
enofelast
estimation scale
excitation temperature
ferguson cam mechanism
formyl folic acid
fortress America
freezing workers
gadgeteer
garden-city
gay as a lark
generator cutout switch
genus Vanilla
getting me
gitell
Glyceria chinensis
gosteleradios
high resolution pressure gauge
hoarsy
Hobah
hot flue drying
human settlements
ice-cream sundae
illineal
imagemasters
Jama Shet'
lilioceris neptis
long - term loan
LPBP
Madoko
mating lift
meet with one's approval
micro-subroutine
modeling of carrier mobility
multiple document indexing
Navarra
new hire rate
neyghbour
openwork stocking
operable time
oropharynxes
orridges
pedantical
perloline
petanques
plena
point filament
probationary ward
pyan
rectiplex
relation data base management system
rhizo
ribbon stirrer
Santo Antônio de Jesus
senie
Shabīk
shallow spherical shell
sheriff-depute
sing the praises of
size grading machine
smoked eel
squeeze-type moulded seal
Stock Idea
strong suit
subcompartment investigation
sulcus circularis
superimposed ice stream
Syncalathium kawaguchii
temnopleurus hardwickii
test page loading
tethina ochracea
tgr
theoretical air
Thrombo-retren
track error
undisturbed atmosphere
union management co operation
vappa
vena lienalis anterior
video-screen management
vitte
wastewatches