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
Adeecon
agrypnias
Allard's law
american fallss
aminonitrogen
anarrow
aphingolipid
armoured scoutcar
articulated spindle
as mad as a cut snake
at all hours
back-streaming
backward conditioning
Ban Vang
bollan bane
cardpunch
cascarella
ceric hydroxynitrate
certificate for refrigeration appliance
charge invariance
cleaning out
coating resin
coinkydink
collection of utility function
come down heavy on sb
condensing engine
Copernicia australis
cristatas
curved-beam truck
Day of Reconciliation
deep foundation
depeq
dummy coil
dx atmosphere
electric radiant heating
expression mutation
fastballs
Florida smoothhound
flux density saturation
foundation beam
fragmentizer
getter ion pump
glucoronidase
group access
holothuria leucospilota
impulsive buying
inheritors
isotropic laminate
joint of framework
Lagrangian dynamics
Larix sibirica
leg grip
lesser hazard
link chain
luppen
maximization of structural parameters
megakeryoblast
Megaphyton
Melawi, Sungai
mexican turquoise
nonguideline
Odrik
optical borate flint
orn?ite-aplite
paraphilic infantilism
paste products
pattern geophones
pleuropneumonialike organism
pneumatic-control
prototyping card
Prunus triflora
Puccinellia anisoclada
relay open system
rickyard
rode off
saccharated ferrous oxide
scientissimous
Scleria oryzoides
shirts and skins
sifting surface
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
spontaneous fission energy
squeamish
stigmata
storifying
sulfluramid
surface absorbed dose
Synanceja verrucosa
tabloid tv
Tanglish
terminal contour
trimerism
uncommitted array logic
Unterschneidheim
vaginal fluid stain
veronia
vulva sore
Wagner Seamount
well established
Winchester quart
winsorized estimation
Zimtabkochung