时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:话匣子英语


英语课
很多大学生在大学期间就确定了自己的职业目标并为之努力奋斗,希望将来能在职场中有所成就。
 
Maura:            All right. Now, today we’re going to do a Chatterbox episode, and that is where Harp 1 and I chat about all different kinds of topics.
 
Harp:              Yeah. Today we’re talking about climbing the corporate 2 ladder.
 
Maura:            That is right. So, first we’re gonna talk about living and working in the corporate world and a little bit about what that is like in Canada.
 
Harp:              Yeah. And then we’re gonna talk about some trends in interviews, when you’re looking for a new job.
 
Maura:            And then we’re gonna talk about job availability, because right now, the situation is a little bit bleak 3. And if you don’t know what bleak means, listen for the last part of this episode.
 
Harp:              Yes. So let’s get started with talking about the corporate world.
 
Maura:            Now I have to say, I only spent a very short amount of time working in the corporate world. ’Cause if you’re an avid 4 listener, you might already know that I’m a teacher, so I actually don’t work in the corporate world, normally.
 
Harp:              Yeah. That’s true. I, on the other hand, do work in the corporate world.
 
Maura:            Now there’re some people who go into university or college and they are real go-getters. That means that they know what they want, they have a career path in mind, they know what job they want to do, and they’re going to work hard until they get it.
 
Harp:              Yeah. I had friends in school—in high school and in university—they knew what they wanted to do, they knew they wanted to earn a lot of money, and they figured out their career path to get them there.
 
Maura:            Some people really know what they wanna do at a young age, and they have high expectations. They want to have a job that is of a certain status. They want a position of power.
 
Harp:              Yeah. These people really wanna climb the corporate ladder fast.
 
Maura:            Now, the corporate ladder means to continually increase your job status. So you’re constantly trying to get promotions 5 and increase your salary and go up and up and up. If you know what a ladder is, it has different steps, and when you climb it, you rise to the top, usually the top of the room or a building, but in this case, the top is, like, the president or CEO. We’re talking about climbing the corporate ladder, which is getting a better and more powerful job.
 
Harp:              You can start out just as a regular employee, and then maybe become the assistant manager, and then the manager, and then the division manager, and then maybe a VP position, and then the CEO.
 
Maura:            Yes. So some people are content to get a job as a manager and then work that for the rest of their lives, or maybe change it up now and again, but others are really focused on climbing the corporate ladder and they always are looking for how to get ahead and get to the next step.
 
Harp:              And an interesting topic that often comes up when you’re talking about climbing the corporate ladder is that sometimes women hit the glass ceiling.
 
Maura:            Yes. The glass ceiling. And this is when women are not able to attain 6 high, powerful positions. And this is just because of gender 7 stereotyping 8 that women were traditionally not in powerful roles.
 
Harp:              Yeah. That women need to stay at home with the kids and they can’t take the high-pressure jobs.
 
Maura:            Right. So, a woman who’s a go-getter and climbing the corporate ladder gets to a certain point where she can see the position that she wants, the high, powerful position, let’s say, for example, of president. She can see it, but she can’t get to that position, because of certain prejudices that people have. Now, the idea of the glass ceiling is that it’s a ceiling, it’s the top. It’s the end of the room. But it’s glass, so the woman can actually see that there is more beyond the ceiling.
 
Harp:              Yeah. And this is starting to change, with more and more women in high-level positions. But there is definitely still a glass ceiling in Canada and very few female presidents of big companies or female CEOs or CIOs or CTOs.
 
Maura:            Yeah. Or even politicians. But slowly, gradually, it is changing.
 
Harp:              And so, if you’re climbing the corporate ladder, you often have to work around the clock.
 
Maura:            That is right. You know what I heard some people do, Harp?
 
Harp:              Tell me.
 
Maura:            Some people who want to give the impression that they are working around the clock schedule emails to be sent from their account later at night so that if someone receives an email from them at 6pm or 7pm, it looks like they’re still working and sometimes these people aren’t actually working.
 
Harp:              That is so devious 9. I’ve never even thought of that.

1 harp
n.竖琴;天琴座
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
  • He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
2 corporate
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
3 bleak
adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的
  • They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
  • The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
4 avid
adj.热心的;贪婪的;渴望的;劲头十足的
  • He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
  • She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。
5 promotions
促进( promotion的名词复数 ); 提升; 推广; 宣传
  • All services or promotions must have an appeal and wide application. 所有服务或促销工作都必须具有吸引力和广泛的适用性。
  • He promptly directed the highest promotions and decorations for General MacArthur. 他授予麦克阿瑟将军以最高的官阶和勋奖。
6 attain
vt.达到,获得,完成
  • I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
  • His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。
7 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
8 stereotyping
v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的现在分词 )
  • I realize that I'm stereotyping. 我认识到我搞的是老一套。 来自辞典例句
  • There is none of the gender stereotyping usually evident in school uniforms. 有没有人的性别刻板印象通常是显而易见的。 来自互联网
9 devious
adj.不坦率的,狡猾的;迂回的,曲折的
  • Susan is a devious person and we can't depend on her.苏姗是个狡猾的人,我们不能依赖她。
  • He is a man who achieves success by devious means.他这个人通过不正当手段获取成功。
学英语单词
.ani
abandoned infant
ageable
aggregate national income
asclepias curassavicas
back-fired
bad policies
BD-CELLULOSE
be a piece of cake
bevis
blow run
booby prize
booty call
Bourbourg
brevipen
captain deck
caput articular
carrier vehicle
ceratobranchial segment
Chanco
chiu tzu y?eh
cocto-immunogen
cold pressed juice
commissive mood
coxarthritis
deucing
digital reflection hologram
digital telemeter receiver
directoral
draw a check
everlastingnesses
exercise price
fall witchgrass
fetch around
field slave
fine spray metal transfer
Firuzeh
flow control bypass valve
indirogar
internal damping losses
klystron oscillator
Knole
leaf of negundo chastetree
leaky Rayleigh wave
left module
liquid level control
liquid liabilities
Longhurst Plateau
Michaelis-Gutmann bodies
multitown
muscular receptor apparatus
N-cholylglycine
nappiness
neocolonialization
oil of winter-green
one person
one-way trade
Osterstedt
over-generalisations
pigment minerals
plain squirrel cage motor
prewired option
primary permeability
principal tangent
propagation of light
prussics
raceway for wiring
radio-transmitting set
rapid depreciation procedures
regular screw thread
root registry
root-hair region
rubberstamp
run-resistant
satellite-tosatellite tracking
saw tooth hob
Shahejie Formation
shahstah
shirron
short title catalog
sleake
Snoqualmie Falls
splenoblast
steriliser
stick something up your ass
sturtevant excavating and bagging machine
teleonymph
tetravalelent
thanedom
Thioton
Threskiornis aethiopica
tracking lidar
transition signal
traversing speed
type checking rule
unbalanced ring
unflamboyant
unreservedly
vertical-disk-type butterfly valve
vinylog effect
violent film
weld rate