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
Alcopara
alkyl selenocyanate
ancestor node
antofagastas
aphidivorous
appendix masculina
association of maturity and yield
asuprarenalism
automatic rangefinder
bambuseaes
baske
Berberubine
blueberry bushes
bounding bed
Chilean Sign Language
circle of the sphere
clamo(u)r against
climap project
co-essence
cock-and-bull
colophons
cooperrider
course setting instrument
cover mould
customer departmentalization
departmental trading accounts
displacementtitration
enamel(l)ed wire
felis concolors
fetal circuIation
fexism
fishing chief
four-way tube box
fuel-reprocessing loop
Germanic languages
getting going
ghostflowers
glammies
great-grandmothers
green crab
ground taxi
gyngell
homogeneity beam
Hostis
hyper-masculinization
hypoarticulation
imbrotheled
insoluble soap
jet area contraction coefficient
Kautskyite
kiche
kozoes
Kypchlor
levada
light continuous welding
low pressure tolerance
made a god of my belly
magmosphere
McClure-Aldrich tests
mensah
Montigne's tests
mostows
mousing
musketoe
n-tuple register
n-unit code alphabet
nadde
norm of vector
oculofrontal
Olyutorskiye Gory
Orlovka
palatalization
participative management system
particle knifing
perithecigerous
photo-conductive cell
plane of formation and regeneration of woods
prologising
quasicylindrical coordinates
race record
retiles
rotary squeeze pump
sandhams
serious-looking
shaft seal leakage steam piping
shoot one's linen
sialophagia
sour lake
steering-wheel tire
Su Jing
subplate mounted
Sulfamizina
tandem queue system
tap tap
theoretical environmentology
tholobate
tredge
tricyclic dibenzopyran
turn the wick up
ultra modern
valeric
vertical hold