时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:VOA 商务英语


英语课
Dialog 1:
F: I hope Ms. Addison can consider the employee attitude in her decision.
M: I am sure she will. She understands that employees have to be happy in their jobs.
F: It they don’t have a good attitude, they won’t work well.
M: They have to have a good attitude during training too.
F: absolutely, especially when they are learning new skills.
M: like learning computer skills.
F: becoming computer literate 1 can be frustrating 2.
M: talk about having a bad attitude. (句型talk about ….. 表示深有同感)
―My employees have been with me for 25 years.
---Talk about loyalty 3.
Q: what should Ms.Addison consider? ---Employee attitude
Dialog 2:
New Words: minimize, initial cost, Bottom-line(实质问题;最终结果),downtime(停产时间)
F: This was a difficult decision for the board.
M: The bottom-line is always time and money.
F: True. We are concerned with the initial cost.
M: There are costs to both alternatives.
F:Costs in both time and money.
M: and of course, you don’t want any downtime.
F: There will be some lost time, but we have to minimize it.
M: As I said before, it all boils down to time and money。(归结为)
Q:What is the bottom-line? ----Time and money.
Dialog 3:
New words: split(分成),alternate(轮换)
F:To minimize down-time, we are going to do both on-the-job and off-site training.
M: How? By splitting the work force into two groups?
F:Half train off-site but during normal working hours
M: And the other half will train on the factory floor  with new machines.
F: By alternating the groups, we can keep production going.
M: that will minimize downtime, but you still have the oops factors.
F:  But the production will increase as soon as the workers are up to speed. (达到熟练程度,使知晓。)
――Hey, what are you talking about?
-----Let me bring you up to speed.
M: Then you’ll be able to keep up with the detailer’s demand.
F: And keep our workers.
M: Sounds like a win-win situation.
Q: when will workers be trained? ---Both on the job and off-site.
 (9月7日)
Small talk:--回绝提议。
-----Let’s have a break and get some lunch.
----- I’d like to, but I can’t. I am too busy (I’d like to, but not with you).
(I have another appointment)
(I don’t feel well)
--How do you think the meeting went?
--Fantastic.
--Let’s come to another one.


1 literate
n.学者;adj.精通文学的,受过教育的
  • Only a few of the nation's peasants are literate.这个国家的农民中只有少数人能识字。
  • A literate person can get knowledge through reading many books.一个受过教育的人可以通过读书而获得知识。
2 frustrating
adj.产生挫折的,使人沮丧的,令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
  • It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间,真令人懊恼。
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 loyalty
n.忠诚,忠心
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
学英语单词
absolute photoelectric magnitude
abulic
ambassis urotaenia
andropause
antidicomarianite
apical appendage
barometric maximum
Bavarian hat
bell cot
bessarabka (basarabeasca)
blasting away
bleaching clay bleaching earth
blood group substance
canella winteranas
carinapex minutissima
Chililabombwe
chordeic penis
cone passage
convertor protection
cork jackets
correlation centre
dedititious
deicing system
derelinquish
diletti
documentation convention
dogpiler
dovetail cutting
electromagnetic interference safety margin
eminger
fire power score
freshman
Fuldi
gamma-ray photon
garage lamp
genus Argyranthemum
gilled-radiator
graphics-function key
Great Sugar Loaf
harness clip
ibrahimi
illueca
inappellability
irving
Jatropha podagrica
jean racines
libration point
lockhorns
long feed drill jumbo
Manship, Paul
Meisenheim
method of evaporation
NAFEC
negative slope
neutral axis of the beam
neutral technological change
non-hydrogene explosive
oral anomaly
organizer
outloving
Pascuense
peronospora sparsa berkeley
peronospora stellariae-uliginosae
photoacoustic detector
portable automatic tide gauge
powered phase guidance
preventive stratum
re-publication
receiver of the refrigerator
receiving wire
recompilations
reformeress
reintegrating
resection of coarctation of aorta
resigner
robust
romanski
scanning field of view
Seller financing
semi-integral voltammetry
seriemas
slugging
spina dorsalis
ST_games-and-activities_air-sports
steam turbines
stockkeepers
storage-to-storage operation
symphrase
task option word inquiry system
tax years
throat opening area
tipranavir
UBIP
university-tuition
urine and gaseous energy
vehicle depreciation rate
vesicular accentuated
virtual acoustic centre
wayson
World Interoperability for Microwave Access
worrily
worst nightmare