to work someone's butt off
(transitive) To cause someone to work hard, eg, as a supervisor.

Well you know the employers across the country have embraced casual Fridays. And many employees are happy to partake. But how casual is too casual? From open toes to exposed flesh, extreme dressing down can be a job hazard and there are some rules t

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2008

学语言的过程中,除了基础的英语知识外,恰当地运用俚语会让你的表达更加自然地道。今天Adam和Connor就要说说美国最常用的工作俚语。 #1.Work your butt off Work your butt off: 拼命工作 Butt是臀部的

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Language Points It won't work. 行不通的;2. Been working out? 最近健身了吧?3. Don't worry. It will work itself out. 别担心,船到桥头自然直。4. work like magic / work wonders 功效神奇,特别管用,The painkiller worked

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What do you think of when I say the word design? 当我说设计这个词的时候你会想到什么? You probably think of things like this, 你可能会想到, finely crafted objects that you can hold in your hand, 可以触摸到的精致的物品

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英语学习笔记: work out. 锻炼 work ones butt off 努力做某事 at work 在上班 get off work 下班 Its not gonna work. 这个办法行不通。 Itll work. 这个办法可以。 Ive been working my butt off to work out. 我最近有努力在

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SCENE① B ?吉娜与玛莉同坐在飞往洛城的班机上 【我猜我只是有点紧张】 Mary: I guess I'm just a little nervous . I'm giving everything I have to InfoKing, and... 玛莉: 我猜

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Many people try their best and put in a lot of effort at work or school. This week, were talking about expressions that mean to work hard. You can work like a dog, work your butt off, or put your nose to the grindstone. As usual, we give you lots of

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1. kick ass 了不起 A: Wow, you fixed my computer in less than 10 minutes. You're good. A: 哇! 你不到十分钟就把我的计算机修好了呀! 你很棒! B: Yep. I just kick ass. B: 是的! 我就是厉害! kick ass 除了字面上的踢屁股外

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Hugo: How do you like working with Leo? Is it working out? Melissa: No, its not. Our work styles completely clash and we butt heads at every turn. Hugo: Really? I thought you were partnered up because you complemented each others strengths. Melissa:

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每个人都应该找到一种激励自己的方式。只有这样,才能明白因何而活,缘何伤感,亦幸福。 来自幸福计划的格雷琴鲁宾为我出了个好主意:每天写下一句话。我想这样一种方式能帮助大家更

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今天我们来讲几个由clock这个词发展而来的习惯用语。大家一定熟悉clock这个词,它是钟。我们要学的第一个习惯用语已经流传了很久了。它是: like clockwork。 Clockwork是钟表的机件装置。钟表能

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11. Shoot! 说吧!; 有屁快放! A: I've got a question for you. A: 我想请问你一个问题。 B: Shoot! B: 说吧!

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What do you do when you oversleep for work? Take urgent leave? @Garrick Saito (本答案支持量:2.96k) (Garrick是Business Insider网站的文章浏览量273.7k,回答Quora 职业话题超过90个,在职场和公司文化的回答获得最

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No, it's just me. And I can't hear anyone, anywhere. I have to be fairly close. 不,只有我是这样。而且我也不是可以听到任何地方任何人的心。我得靠得相当近。 The more familiar someone's... 'voice' is, the farther awa

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I am catching upon Girls And Downton Abbey lately. Oh, yeah? 我最近在追都市女孩 还有唐顿庄园 是吗 Which I love it. Two completely opposite shows like Well, you know what? - I mean can you image 我好爱看 -两部完全不同的剧 你

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The problem Jobs faced was that running two companies was brutal. 乔布斯面临的问题是,同时管理两家公司是极其艰难的。 Looking back on it, he traced his health problems back to those days: 回想起来,他觉得自己的健康问

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1. kick ass 了不起 A: Wow, you fixed my computer in less than 10 minutes. You'regood。 A: 哇! 你不到十分钟就把我的计算机修好了呀! 你很棒! B: Yep. I just kick ass。 B: 是的! 我就是厉害! kick ass 除了字面上

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Ive been given a 22-year-old to manage who has a first-class degree from Cambridge and is a first-class pain in the butt. 公司让我去管理一个22岁的年轻人,他是剑桥的优等毕业生也是个一等一的刺头。 Ive asked him to wor

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1. XYZ 检查你的拉链 Hey, man. XYZ. 老兄啊! 检查一下你的拉链吧。 XYZ 是 Check your zipper. 的意思。美国填表中的选项多用打X来表示。这个选项的动作就叫Check,也就是XYZ 中的X。Y 代表Your,Z代表Zi

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1. XYZ 检查你的拉链 Hey, man. XYZ. 老兄啊! 检查一下你的拉链吧。 XYZ 是 Check your zipper. 的意思。美国填表中的选项多用打X来表示。这个选项的动作就叫Check,也就是XYZ 中的X; Y 代表Your; Z代表Zipp

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a bear
a heap of
addmeter
aeternas
Alguena
anecdotae
Anguille, C.
antagonium
antifreeze protein
antileprous sera
b-string
bluetail
Bol'shoy
breed in and in
cable rotating device
cancerous ulcer
carlos saavedra lamas
catguts
CCL17
citellus plague
clear the storage
clubmoss spore
coastal radio station
combustion heater
component-based software development
conical-scan antenna
consumer sale disclosure statement
control library
coplanar point
corona model
cranio-carpo-tarsal dystrophy
dermatitis precancerosa
direct labor efficiency variance
distance structure
earspools
electrical contractors
fatiferous
frassrand
gas-tight container
get results
grilled mandarin fish
group length
guard wire
high altitude surveillance
Hydrangea rotundifolia
in the near future
inert solvent
initiate log-on request
interface message
iontophoresi
keep your eyes open
labiovelarise
larded
liquidation reserve
lobus inferior
local deflection
luckhoffii
Lugamba
macro-fiction
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molasses tanker
multilayer device
n-type semi-conductor
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nonconsistency
Nun River
omnilbus telegraph system
osbun
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Petromyzontis
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polizia
post-
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retinopapillitis
revoltress
rinsible
ronceray
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second-drawer
shout something out
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stall roasting
susoes
swedle
tees-sides
tongueman
undevotedly
United States airways code
voltaires
vsly
wallodi weiball law
wheel spad
wire-operated hatchcover