时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:ESL杰夫的一天


英语课

 On the way to the office, I was thinking about what I have on my agenda 1 today. 在前往办公室的路上,我在想我今天有什么日程安排。


When I get to my desk, there is a stack of new memos 2 and papers in my inbox. 当我到达我的办公桌的时候,我的收件箱里有一沓新的备忘录和文件。
When I turn on my computer, I see at least two-dozen emails I need to go through. 当我打开电脑的时候,我看到至少有二十四条需要我浏览的邮件。
Just as I start in on the email, my phone rings. 正当我开始看邮件的时候,我的电话铃响了。
It's my project manager, Julie, asking me to come in for a conference call with our head office. 是我的项目经理朱莉打来的,她通知我参加我们总部的多人电话会议。
I don't get back to my desk for nearly two hours. 将近两个小时后我才回到了我的办公桌。
By that time, I was ready for a break. 到了那时,我准备休息一下了。
At 10:30, I head down to the break room and get some hot water at the water cooler to make some tea. 上午10:30,我去了休息室,从饮水机里接了些热水泡茶。
There were a couple of other people on break, 休息室里有几个人在休息、
having snacks out of the vending 3 machine and reading the new notices on the bulletin 4 board. 吃从自动贩卖机里买来的零食以及阅读公告牌上的最新通知。
I run into Sam, one of my friends at work, and we chat a little before going back to work. 我偶遇我工作中的一个朋友山姆,在回去工作之前我们闲聊了一会儿。
Before long, it's time for lunch. 没过多久,就到了午饭时间。
I usually bring my lunch with me to work and eat it at my desk. 我一般自带午餐并坐在我的办公桌上吃它。
If I don't have time to pack a lunch, I sometimes go across the street for some take-out. 如果我没有时间自带午饭,我有时就会去街对面买外卖。
The only trouble is, it's always so busy during the lunch hour and I always have to stand in line. 唯一的不便之处是,午饭时间那儿总是非常忙,我总是要排队。
That's usually a pain. 排队通常是件令人头痛的事。
On Fridays, I usually go out to lunch with a few friends from work. 每周五,我一般会和几个工作中的朋友外出吃午饭。
On casual Fridays, we can kick back a little and take it easy. 每周五便装日,我们可以稍微放松一下。

1 agenda
n.议事日程,记事册
  • We now proceed to the next item on the agenda.我们现在着手讨论下一项议题。
  • If there is no objection,the agenda is adopted.如果没有意见,议程就通过了。
2 memos
n.备忘录( memo的名词复数 );(美)内部通知
  • Big shots get their dander up and memos start flying. 大人物们怒火中烧,备忘录四下乱飞。 来自辞典例句
  • There was a pile of mail, memos and telephone messages on his desk. 他的办公桌上堆满着信件、备忘录和电话通知。 来自辞典例句
3 vending
v.出售(尤指土地等财产)( vend的现在分词 );(尤指在公共场所)贩卖;发表(意见,言论);声明
  • Why Are You Banging on the Vending Machine? 你为什么敲打这台自动售货机? 来自朗文快捷英语教程 2
  • Coca-Cola had to adapt almost 300,000 vending machines to accept the new coins. 可口可乐公司必须使将近三十万台自动贩卖机接受新货币。 来自超越目标英语 第5册
4 bulletin
n.小报,会刊,简明新闻,新闻快报
  • We read the declaration posted on the bulletin board.我们读了贴在布告板上的声明。
  • The radio bulletin warned of the typhoon.收音机新闻快报发布了台风警报。
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active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha