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!



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abdella
aftercourse
Alexander City
angiotensin
Anisodus tanguticus
arena theater
automatic storage equipment
Bastiões, R.
beeren
bottom flange
burnt fire clay
capsizing case
carbonizing flame
catathermomcter
centzontles
chase length
coffee-filter
common limpet
dehalogenation
developed silver
dominance, dominancy
drag torque type viscometer
elevating equipment
equisetum ramosissimum
Evaristus Saint
executive vice presidents
exenterations
favorable attitude
fin cutting
finned type heat exchanger
fire pits
gill remnant
grid reference system
hamburgh
havemeyer
Hoengsong
Hordeum innermongolicum
implicit strata
institute an investigation
isobaric heating
knowledge validation
lickering
linctuss
lobed placenta
loosey
lump sth together
magnetometeries
manihot
master vector
maximum lifting force
MDCF (maximum dependable capacity factor)
mertrix lamarckii
monodomain
morganstern
multisage
muscular thickening
mutual pathologic influence
naava
Neofocin
optimum scale integration
Peirce Res.
Perroncito's spirals
petrose
Picardie, Région
Pseudamphistomum
pure as the driven snow
pyracarbolid
Rahmon
Ranunculus distans
reactive polymer
replantation of teeth
retrograde cystography
rubber hardness
sabre saw
samarium(element)
schlub
shaell
sherrye
simpac
skid table
solar radiation
spekchek
Spraynal
standups
stibium(element)
stratum perichorioideum
sumatriptan
superloyalists
table of weight and measures
thromboendoarteriectomy
thwarteous
torsional fatigue
two-pulse timer
ultrasonic atomizer
unencysted
vagina tendinis m. flexoris hallucis longi
vitalised
wander mark
Yandang
Yermo
yurchak