时间:2019-03-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课
Helen: Hello, this is Real English from BBC 1 Learning 2 English. I’m Helen.

Zoë: 大家好,我是刘佳。地道英语和大家一起学习英语中新出现的流行词汇还有一些新用法。那 Helen, 今天咱们要学的新词是什么呢?


Helen: Today’s new word is hot desk. That’s H.O.T. hot and D.E.S.K. desk. Hot desk.


Zoë: Hot desk. 热的,和桌子加起来指的是什么呢?


Helen: Well, hot desk is a new expression that means 3 to share a desk or office space. Workers don’t have their own desks, but share them and use them at different times.


Zoë: 说的就是几个人在不同的时间共用一个桌子,用的人多,桌子可不就热了吗,所以是hot desk。


Helen: Yes. It is more common nowadays. You might say 'we have hot-desking at work to save money.'


Zoë: 这的确是个节约开支的办法,充分发挥了这个桌子的作用。不是单独属于谁,而是大家一起在不同的时间公用。


Insert 4


A: Is this your desk?


B: No – we have hot-desking here. I work at any desk I want. It’s much more efficient.


Helen: Do you have your own desk?


Zoë: Yes, but I wouldn’t mind hot-desking.


Helen: I wouldn’t like hot-desking. I like to have my things around me, and I don’t like other people moving them!


Zoë: I know what you mean. I like having my personal space as well.


Helen: Still I guess hot-desking is a good idea in some offices.


Zoë: Why?


Helen: Maybe some people are not in the office every day, so it would be better to have hot-desking rather than waste money and space on individual desks.


Zoë: So it could save costs for companies.


Helen: Yes. Anyway, to recap hot desk means to share desks.


Zoë: Hot desk 就是公用的办公桌。That’s it for today.


Helen: Yes, that’s all. You’ve been listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. Join us again soon for more up-to-the-minute Real English. Bye.


Zoë: See you next time.



abbr.(=British Broadcasting Corporation)英国广播公司
  • She works for the BBC.她为英国广播公司工作。
  • The BBC was founded in 1922.英国广播公司建于1922年。
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
vt.插入,镶补;vi.附着;n.插入,插入物
  • I wish to insert an advertisement in your newspaper.我想在贵报上登一则广告。
  • The newspaper had an insert of pages of pictures.该报带有数页插图。
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accuracy of information
advisory architect
american shad
angiomyocardiac
annexer
antoeci
augmental
battles of magenta
blood quotient
Boris Godunov
botteghe
brunts
caisson feed supple sirts
car traffics
carte d'or
collateral chain
complementary data
complementary variational problem
contribution in general average
Dalmane
dance to music
diagonal lifting shore
dioscorea elephantipess
domestic television set
drop-size spectrometer
Duzab
electron mail
Estanzuela, R.
existing agreement
facilitating
fall within someone's cognizance
fault shore line
flat copper bus-bar
flushnesses
free-vehicle
full-flow filter
future research
gap-graded concrete
gerais
glycozolidine
grease-staineds
greenwiches
hand den
hangover time
heat receiver
Hrvatin
iatrophysics
image transfer characteristic
inductively ordered set
influence sweep
international monetary arrangements
IWHI
lentivirus equine infectious anemia virus
let go with
macroscopic seismic phenomenon
matter-energy
naphthyl mercaptan
natural steam power plant
Negro Muerto
Nissl's granules
odd shaped work
offensive warfare
out-red
over-cautiousnesses
perturbant
phosphorescence intensity
primary teeth
pyruia
Queen Elizabeth Is.
rectolabial fistula
rotation tlc
rubellar cataract
sabuk
sacral segments
Sam Houston State University
saturity
SDH1
secondary error
seesaw motion
serratia marcescenss
shibe
shilly-shallyer
single-grained structure
sound nuisance
Stratocasters
terapixel
the whole shooting match
Thiotebezin
thorn in my side
toss about on
TPP
transmitting device
triplicato-
trisphosphates
tympanic recesses
uniprocessing
urico-oxidase
vertical structure equation
walkys
weight tolerance
work oneself to the bone
zony