时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读


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[00:01.18]Jessie's Glove 杰西的手套


[00:07.97]I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation,


[00:13.76]a national chain of convenience stores.


[00:16.71]Among the topics we address in our seminars is the retention 1 of quality employees—


[00:22.93]a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale in the service industry.


[00:28.80]During these discussions, I ask the participants,


[00:32.85]“What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?”


[00:36.68]Some time back a new manager took the question and slowly, 


[00:41.27]with her voice almost breaking, said,“It was a $19 baseball glove.” 


[00:47.95]Cynthia told the group 


[00:50.03]that she originally took a Circle K clerk job as an interim 2 position


[00:54.78]while she was looking for something better.


[00:57.05]On her second or third day behind the counter, 


[01:00.56]she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie.


[01:04.99]He needed a baseball glove for Little League.


[01:07.93]She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, 


[01:12.67]and her first check would have to go for paying bills.


[01:16.29]Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check.


[01:21.50]When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager,


[01:26.77]asked her to come to the small room in back of the store that served as an office.


[01:32.14]Cynthia wondered if she had done something wrong 


[01:35.34]or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before.


[01:39.50]She was concerned and confused.


[01:42.68]Patricia handed her a box. 


[01:45.18]“I overheard you talking to your son yesterday,” she said,


[01:49.33]“and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids.


[01:53.52]This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is,


[01:59.98]even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves.


[02:03.92]You know we can't pay good people like you as much as we would like to;


[02:08.63]but we do care, and I want you to know you are important to us.”


[02:13.12]The thoughtfulness, empathy and love of this convenience store manager 


[02:18.04]demonstrates vividly 3 that people remember more how much an employer cares 


[02:23.62]than how much the employer pays.


[02:26.46]An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove.




1 retention
n.保留,保持,保持力,记忆力
  • They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants.他们主张保留我们的核电厂。
  • His retention of energy at this hour is really surprising.人们惊叹他在这个时候还能保持如此旺盛的精力。
2 interim
adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
  • It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
3 vividly
adv.清楚地,鲜明地,生动地
  • The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor vividly.演讲者很生动地描述了穷人的生活。
  • The characters in the book are vividly presented.这本书里的人物写得栩栩如生。
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aesthetic surface
allowance for time
amplitude stability
anti-ralling tank
antinicotinics
artrogryposis
brush sth away
buck dance
Camera vitrea
Campos Altos
casting radius
ceramic light modulator
Chrysosplenium lectus-cochleae
circular cross section
cirsium ferum
coaliting
collinses
commutator end plate cover gasket
complementary argument theorem
constant potential coulometry
contentiousness
contents of resin
Cremanthodium pinnatifidum
culvert valve
direct-current conductance
dissertationist
electrolytic gas
embergoose
enervity
fishing limit
francis ferdinands
g' boy
gape seed
Goudhurst
guerrillalike
gynergy
haidinger
have a lot going for one
heated skin detection
heavy market
hypertonic urine
in the deep of winter
independent experiments
industry gas turbine
internetwork datagram protocol
inthralment
iozite
liquid crystal polymers
liquid-like phase
loose-leaf
luteinizes
mapping radar
masterfile
matlo
me-tooism
member's bill
mesquita
microclimatological
mill extrusion
misprints
money house
Mormonist
Musa formosana
network operator logging
nitrosugars
nyman
once-impoverished
parity price policy
physiological heat of combustion
pn-
Porpax
portable property
postmistress
pull out rolls
pulpal foramina
rachitic gingivitis
reflection high energy electron diffraction (rheed)
reorganising
research machine
Riiser-Larsen Peninsula
secondary induction coil
seedsnipe
self-generating method
semiconductive loading tube
single-threaded worm
skeleton shield
social purchasing power
streetology
Strychnos nitida
subsequent filling
tableture
tau-effect
tearin' ass
thorium helium method
trembling fungi
tubing-head adapter flange
Tugela
type families
unmotivates
wavy selvedge
world premieres
zygomatic projection