时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:礼节美语


英语课

公司高管Peter, Jason和Helen开会讨论员工保健项目。大家都赞成把地下室改成健身中心,为员工健身提供方面。可问题在于,怎样才能要求员工去健身呢? Helen就提出了这个问题。


H: The gym is a good step. But Peter is asking how to mandate 1 fitness.


J: I'd say there is really only one way to mandate anything: we'll have to set reasonable goals for people and then penalize 2 them financially if they don't make it.


P: I'm afraid Jason is 100% correct. I think the only way to really see changes is to hit people where it hurts: in their wallets.


如何才能要求员工去健身?how to mandate fitness. mandate, 有命令的意思。 Jason建议,唯一强迫员工去健身的办法就是预设合理目标,如果不能达标, if they don't make it,就采取罚款的方式。 Peter认为,Jason is 100% correct. Jason百分之百正确。要想见成果,就一定要hit people where it hurts,击中要害,对员工来说,他们的要害就是their wallets他们的钱包。


H: Ok...how about this for a plan: if you are a smoker 3 or seriously overweight you have two options. One: quit smoking and/or lose weight and you keep your corporately 4 funded health plan. Or two: Ignore our health warnings and you have to pay the 25% difference out of your pocket.


Helen建议,可以给吸烟或肥胖的员工两种选择two options。 一种是: quit smoking and /or lose weight戒烟,减肥,这样就可以继续享受公司出钱购买的医疗保健计划。


第二种是: ignore your health warnings,不顾健康方面的警告,也就是说不戒烟,不减肥,那你的医疗保健费用就要有四分之一得自己掏腰包,out of your pocket。


J: You know...that sounds reasonable.


P: I'm inclined to agree. We're not being unreasonable 5 and we are trying to do our part.


H: But people will have to meet us half way.


P: Thank you Helen and Jason. I appreciate your ideas.


开会的三位主管都觉得这种办法合情合理,reasonable, 作为公司,应该给员工提供一些健身保健方面的便利条件,但是与此同时,people will have to meet us half way. Meet somebody half way意思是做出必要的妥协和让步,在这里,是指员工也应该积极响应公司提出的健身号召。


 



1 mandate
n.托管地;命令,指示
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
2 penalize
vt.对…处以刑罚,宣告…有罪;处罚
  • It would be unfair to penalize those without a job.失业人员待遇低下是不公平的。
  • The association decided not to penalize you for the race.赛马协会决定对你不予处罚。
3 smoker
n.吸烟者,吸烟车厢,吸烟室
  • His wife dislikes him to be a smoker.他妻子不喜欢他当烟民。
  • He is a moderate smoker.他是一个有节制的烟民。
4 corporately
adv.团结地,共同地
5 unreasonable
adj.不讲道理的,不合情理的,过度的
  • I know that they made the most unreasonable demands on you.我知道他们对你提出了最不合理的要求。
  • They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。
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ateria gastrica dextra
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DC shunt generator
diamond in looped end
dirithromycin
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ethephon
feulgen's reagent
field anomaly relaxation method
flipping the script
gear mashing
Gjersvik
glorylands
gold-bug
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growl out
guindall
hakkio
hearing disorder
heycock
heyderia macrolepis (kurz)li calocedrus macrolepis kurz.
honours degrees
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hydrogen content in capping layer
inflictable
initiator procedure
insidehand
insulating paper
intratelomeric
isoclinal
kifts
lens cylindrical
made an oath
main branch connections
master gear checking instrument
mend the matter
message control information
microchimerism
nien chia shan
Niodicoumarlum
output section attenuator
overlapping fault
overroof
oxypleurodon stimpsoni
plant growth in high-latitude region
prop up ailing industries
radial spherical roller bearing
rate above
reflectance radiometer-photometer
resin separator
Rowasa
run-time instance
sand falsemallow
semi-automatic hob grinding machine
sensorchip
septic bronchopneumonia
single-mode system
single-point load
smoke protection
snowshoed
SO x
sodium ferric pyrophosphate
stenophyllanin
storage access scheme
subdetection
Tarahumare
texturizable
thermale
toluenesulfonyl methylamine
took the cake
tracing facility
turtle bay
two-loop trip
uncusped
use sb well
w.m
Walls Seamount
whiterocks
wonderfullest
xenon-krypton laser