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
4-hydroxytamoxifen
acceptance of concealed work
adjurers
air force officer
alsek r.
amacom
analysis processing
ankang
anti-loosing washer
Barlee, L.
bashfulness
blacktops
Bordeaux bottle
broderbund
chain branching
clear aperture (ca)
cognitive insight therapy
commissionings
compilatios
container number list
Cousinia leiocephala
dedolent
defoul
diphenyl iodonium iodide
distance across the wheel flanges
DMAT
dummy argument name
duration of possible sunshine
Dzhankuyevka
educational endowments
emergency galvanized bucket
entry object
equivalent parts per million
exert oneself to do sth
fiber optic sensor
Fields, W.C.(William Claude Duken fields)
frazil ice
Gabor in-line hologram
given up the gjost
glassified
Grande, Cayo
gray matter (or gray nerve substance)
Hals, Frans
heat-treated track shoe
heavy wool grease
homo erectus officialis
Honggun
industrial applicability
isleib
kumatology
land vehicle
lario
loiter with intent
maned rat
mechanical ground support equipment
minimal harmonic
molal fraction
momentum exchange
muffitt
multi-annual
multipurpose ship
net present value model
network administrator
nondissociable
nonmyeloid
Norton Canon
one week
organic amnesia
pole-foundation
polyperythrin
pontocythere miurensis
Poseyville
position dilu tion of precision
presser bar spring
random number generation
robotistic
ropred
rose ear
Russey Prey
sludgeworm
sodium fluoroborate
stabilized crude
structured writing for software documentation
swerdloff
test in getting bumper crops
thioaldehyde
Trollius dschungaricus
tumor-bearing
undue preference
ungrammaticized
unsymmetrical oscillations
upskirts
vellous
Vidal, R.
wet day
What a stomach he has got!
wolfschmidts
wortzel
yah-sure
zinc anode cathodic
zuccari