时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:生活英语情景口语


英语课

P: have you finished going through the contract?

K: yes, but I have a few questions for you.

P: Ok. Ask away.

K: first, I’d like to know if you offer employees sick leave.

P: yes, employees can take up to 10 days of sick leave per year. However, in order to get paid, you’ll have to bring in a note from the doctor’s.

K: even if I’m only sick for one day?

P: that’s correct.

K: that’s pretty strict, if you ask me.

P: well, we’ve had to add that to the contract because we found that many of our employees were taking almost one sick day a monty, even though they weren’t sick.

K: I see. I guess that makes sense.

P: do you have any other questions?

K: yes. Maternity 1 leave is mentioned in the contract, but there’s nothing in the contract alout paternity leave. Do you offer anything to fathers?

P: we do actually. We can add that as an amendment 2 to your contract.

K: how many days of paternity leave do you offer?

P: men are allowed to take 10 days of paternity leave for their first child.

K: why are women allowed so much more time for materniry leave?

P: qwll, women are the ones giving birth. I think it’s fair to give them more time, don’t you?

K: I guess so. I don’t have any other questions. Should I sign here then?

P: yes, please.

你看完合同了吗?

看完了,不过我有几个问题要问你.

好,问吧.

首先我想知道你们这里有没有为员工提供病假?

有,员工每年有10天病假.不过,如果不想扣工资的话最好交医生开的假条.

即使我只生病一天也要开吗?

没错.

如果你问我意见的话,我觉得这条规定太苛刻了.

嗯,我们必须把这一条写进合同,因为以前我们这儿很多员工即使没病,也几乎每月都要休一次病假.

我懂了.你们这样做确实有道理.

你还有其它什么问题吗?

有.合同里涉及了产假,可是没有提到父亲假.公司没有为新父亲们提供假期?

有的.我们可以把这一条作为补充条款写进你的合同.

那公司能给几天的父亲假呢?

头一胎的话,男性员工有10天假期.

为什么女性的产假比男性的多得多?

嗯,女性要经历生产过程,我觉得给他们更多时间休息很合理,你不觉的吗?

合理,我没有其他问题了.是在这里签字吗?

是的,签字吧.

Sick leave: permission to be away from work because of illness; the period of time spent away from work 病假

to be on sick leave 休病假


maternity leave: a period of time when a woman temporarily leaves her job to have a baby 产假


amendment: a small change or improvement that is made to a law or a document; the process of changing a law or a document (法律、文件的)改动,修正案,修改,修订

to introduce/propose/table an amendment(= to suggest it)

提出一项修正案

She made several minor 3 amendments 4 to her essay.

她对自己的论文作了几处小的修改.

Parliament passed the bill without further amendment.

议会未作进一步修改便通过了法案.


 



1 maternity
n.母性,母道,妇产科病房;adj.孕妇的,母性的
  • Women workers are entitled to maternity leave with full pay.女工产假期间工资照发。
  • Trainee nurses have to work for some weeks in maternity.受训的护士必须在产科病房工作数周。
2 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
3 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
4 amendments
(法律、文件的)改动( amendment的名词复数 ); 修正案; 修改; (美国宪法的)修正案
  • The committee does not adequately consult others when drafting amendments. 委员会在起草修正案时没有充分征求他人的意见。
  • Please propose amendments and addenda to the first draft of the document. 请对这个文件的初稿提出修改和补充意见。
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Adams, Henry Brooks
admiralty territorial jurisdiction
air force communication system
airheadedness
al-bargesse
award a distinction to
axis of tetragonal symmetry
banana root borer
bancaria
blitherings
blood reconstitution
booster station
bostock
Cabbage Patch Kids
claims notice
comfort cooling
conventional mouse
corrected retention volumn
current account convertibility
databasenames
decompressor(-ser)
DEIRDRE
diethylstilbesterol
differential distribution
diffusion normalizing
direct action avalanche
Disalcid
dispossessor
driving-related
dumfounding
East Dubuque
Eleocharis tuberosa
euro dollar bonds
factory overhead account
Fechner, Gustav Theodor
fiber optic cranioscope
furapromidum
gallabiahs
galvo
half-heights
Hanko
helcoderm atcus spine
hurry-ups
IAHR
ice-rich permafrost
jerry-building
key-to-address-transformation
kleck
knife-like
land at
last call
logging desk
London depositary receipts
lotus lantern
mass card
Medinilla himalayana
millrees
mobile middleware
mountain devils
movie queen
moving light spot
mutually off setting accounts
nominal rate of discharge
nonparoxysmal
oblinger
offer sb. the right hand of fellowship
optical fiber attenuator
overdocuments
Pechora Sea
projecting pier
quarred
red civil airway
redundany
reflex factor
reversible electrode reaction
ripping bars
scabies purulenta
scoter
scrolloping
sealing cap
Shabelle
Sincham
single-strand binding protein
skiting
sleeping giants
sound source room
spurries
start from square one
stepoutrelay
subcutaneous atrophy caused by steroid injection
suite of clause trains
sulfur-bearing crude
supachai
tettered
total return swaps
Ulidiidae
unbundles
vehemencies
Via Lobos
Vižinada
walking-beam furnace