时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.74]9.The Priorities 1 of Life


[00:04.22]Friday afternoon, when I was worrying about my pregnancy 2 and the future conflicts between work and family, 


[00:11.62]Dan’s assistant dropped a memo 3 at my desk. 


[00:15.01]We were supposed to run a new set of numbers on our report. 


[00:18.81]“Have them sent to me by Monday,” Dan, my work-obsessed boss, wrote.


[00:23.72]It was near leaving time. 


[00:26.00]The mainframe computer was already shut down for the weekend, which meant doing them by hand on Saturday. 


[00:31.88]Working extra hours always made me doubt if I would have time with my family.


[00:37.33]I had to talk to Mike, my team leader. 


[00:41.26]“We don’t need to,” Mike said, “I’ll run a program first thing Monday when the computer comes back up. 


[00:47.68]And I’ll explain things to Dan on Tuesday. 


[00:50.40]The extra day means there won’t be any mistakes.”


[00:53.67]I had a terrible weekend. 


[00:56.40]After this, how would Dan view my maternity 4 leave?


[01:00.11]Monday, Mike finished running the program before I came in. 


[01:04.24]I checked the information for my division. 


[01:07.23]Tuesday, Dan asked me into his office. 


[01:10.27]“I wanted those reports yesterday so I could get my notes ready. 


[01:14.41]If that meant working on a Saturday, that is normal at your level of responsibility. 


[01:19.42]Instead, you deliberately 5 disobeyed me.”


[01:22.47]I struggled to hold back my tears. 


[01:25.84]That was when Mike breezed in, plopping the new report on his desk. 


[01:30.09]“Here we go, Dan,” he said, “Guaranteed accuracy down to the decimal 6. To me that was worth taking an extra day.”


[01:38.04]“Why didn’t you work on Saturday to finish this?”


[01:41.42]“It seemed like a huge waste when we could just use the computer and get it right,” 


[01:46.64]Mike said, “so we waited until Monday.” 


[01:49.36]Dan stared at the top page for a long while, then nodded. 


[01:53.28]At that moment the tension went out of the room like air going out of a balloon. 


[01:58.08]He even cracked a smile.


[02:00.25]Later, finally on my way to talk to Dan about my pregnancy, I stopped by Mike’s cubicle 7


[02:07.01]There he was, working as hard as ever, surrounded by the photos of his boys, 


[02:11.36]the football team he coached, his family on Easter Sunday. 


[02:14.86]That’s why he didn’t make time wasting decisions or worry about office politics. 


[02:21.43]He had his priorities right: faith, family, then work. 


[02:27.00]And because of that he was good at all three.


[02:30.18]“Thanks, Mike.” I said. “I learned to get my priorities straight. 


[02:35.86]Now I’m ready to tell my boss the good news.”




1 priorities
n.先( priority的名词复数 );优先;优先权;优先考虑的事
  • The document provided a revealing insight into the government's priorities. 这份文件使人看出政府的轻重缓急是怎样安排的。
  • We must work together to fund only our most important priorities. 我们必须共同努力,只为最重要的项目提供资金。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
2 pregnancy
n.怀孕,怀孕期
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
3 memo
n.照会,备忘录;便笺;通知书;规章
  • Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗?
  • Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗?
4 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。
5 deliberately
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
6 decimal
adj.十进的,小数的,十进制的;n.小数
  • He knows the decimal rules.他懂得十进制的用法。
  • Britain converted to decimal currency on February 15th,1971.英国于1971年2月15日改用十进位币制。
7 cubicle
n.大房间中隔出的小室
  • She studies in a cubicle in the school library.她在学校图书馆的小自习室里学习。
  • A technical sergeant hunches in a cubicle.一位技术军士在一间小屋里弯腰坐着。
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above-quota purchase
alicyclic acid
amphoriscid
Araqua
artemia salinas
autesiodorum (auxerre)
authigenesis
base of neck
bottom ramming machine
burhinidaes
coarse braking
compressed air installation
context-independent
cuellar
cyberbanks
Cypridea
decision logic translator
deion extinction of arc
depreciation rate of tooling
desose
distance liner
Donzenac
dual detector
duck mold packing
eccentric type pickup
equilibrate
Eschscholtzia californica
event-by-event
exponential subroutine
export labo(u)r power
extenders
fog-navigation
geared brake motor
gebhart
genus lutras
health-consciousness
hercostomus lunlatus
heterogenous graft
Hindostan
holding braking effort
horsecrap
Hutchinson's patch
inhearing
insert film
insurance share
Kidd blood group system
Kodoris K'edi
kuvasz
lakon kabach boran (cambodia)
latent load
leaned
left divisor
liberalizers
licea kleistobolus
lot by lot
Malolo
man-millinery
mannoheptitol
master file table
mazelyn
mine accident
molybdenic acid
nanpa
nature strips
nnfa
objectives of financial statement
Ohiwa Harb.
operator trunk
Origanum dictamnus
paleoepibiotic endemism
peripheral arteriosclerosis
perosplanchnia
planchering
point softening
Pomadasyidae
poor-spirited
reference wedge
self feeding carburetor
shorthandedly
single ported slide valve
Skebobruk
soft margarine
soil metabolism
sound intermediate frequency
spillage oil
Spinacia oleracea Mill.
steel-bar header
stern ornament
stratifiable
surface recombination admittance
Surinsk
telegraaf
threepeater
tisdell
Tombila, Gunung
Trichosanthes quinquangulata
troched
v-shaped antenna
vestibular nuclei
whose'n
wolfhounds
work space layout