时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:职场礼节英语


英语课

 陈豪在美国公司已经工作了一段时间。今天老板要找他谈话。老板找谈话会有什么事呢? 陈豪心里有点不安,所以急着去请教美籍华人Mary。


 
(Office ambience)
 
陈:(很着急地)Hey, Mary,快,我有事问你。
 
M:What's the matter?
 
陈: 老板的秘书通知我老板过一会要找我谈话,可说的话我没听懂,说是为了什么punc...punc... 那个词我不知道...
 
M: Punctual?
 
陈:对,有点像,不过那个词最后的音好像是什么ty 来了。
 
M:Punctuality?
 
陈:Yes, yes. Punctuality. Punctuality是什么意思呀?哟,不好了,时间到了,我得去了。
 
(Sound of knocking on the door; opening the door)
 
Mr. Jones: Mr. Chen, it has been brought to my attention that you are frequently late for meetings. I want you to know that punctuality is important in American business and in our company too.
 
C: Sorry, Mr. Jones, I am not sure I understand. What exactly do you mean by punc... punctuality?
 
Mr. Jones: Punctuality simply means being on time. If a meeting is scheduled for one o'clock, everyone is expected to be in the meeting room and ready to start.
 
C: (自语:噢,开会要准时!) Mr. Jones, now I understand. I'll be on time for meetings from now on.
 
Ms. Jones: Good.
 
(Sound of pushing chairs and walking)
 
M: 嗨,陈豪,刚才我要告诉你 punctuality就是准时,你匆忙走了,大概没有听见。哎,老板找你干什么呀?
 
C:他批评我开会不准时。他不懂,可我又没法和老板争。你知道有的时候我专心工作忘了时间!
 
M. 那不行,上星期开会讨论财务,可数据全在你手上。你不到,会没法开。There's no way to have the meeting without you,所以你浪费了大家的时间。Being late is a sign of disrespect。
 
C: 我不是有意没礼貌,有的时候是没法控制的。那天我刚要去开会,电话铃响了。
 
M:That's simple. Don't answer it。 打电话的人要是有重要事情他会留言。你开完会可以打回电。
 
陈:还有一次,开会的时间到了,可是一个客户来看我。我总不能不见吧?
 
M:实在没有办法的时候,inform others that you are delayed。这样别人就会觉得你是尊重他们的。
 
陈:行,知道了。哎,Mary,你再给我总结一下吧,免得我忘了。
 
M:Punctuality simply means being on time; punctuality is important in American business; Being late is a sign of disrespect。
 
C:谢谢,Mary! 今天又学会一个词 -- punc-punctua-punctuality! punctuality!



学英语单词
1-sparteine
a process approach
alimentiveness
amegoes
as is the case
aviation jacket
avoidable quality cost
backward combatability
bean dips
bouvardia
canary-yellows
circumcorneal injection
cloudinesses
collection on bill
comeupances
core screen
corio
critical cavitation
diagonal quasigroup
dihydroascorbate
dolomite dust
doubleconvex
drawnness
electric curtain of travelling wave
electric supply failure
energy estimation
equistasis
equivalent law
Exochorda giraldii
fails
fan maker beacon
finishability
Fiscal Balance
fishing float
fleshy cotyledon
furazcillin
gamergates
General Vintter, L.(General Paz, L.)
geoelectrical section
greedily
hamelet
heald knitter
heavy carrier gas
heuristics testing
hypermatrices
induction hardening transformer
infinitesimal-stage efficiency
interplanetary diffusion
joint-use telephone
keep down prices
label plate
lagrangian family of hexahedra
larimore
market games
metratomy
microprogrammed cpu
musical tone
national industrial conference board
national institute of standards and technology (nist)
north-easter
overhung portion (of winding)
paracytheridea echinata
pedulla
penicillin V benzathine
petiotization
phonological loop
piassava palm
Pins, Pte.aux
postal forgery
PQD
private electric power
privileged front end
pseudopunctate
psycho-chemistry
pulp industry
put someone something in a different light
QDNO
real
red rubber sheet
roundbacks
sample size
scleros
sideband equalization
silicone alloy
single-job environment
SS-N-9
strip wiper
submicronic cmos
subterrenean
tailling
talker identification
tillage control measure
to fly to arms
to strike a chord
toggle switched capacitor inverter
tree stock
trimerite
twenty-to
underground leaching
upsettable
Vee-belt drive
winding cloth