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
Achnastank
anaerobic filter system
antenna resistance
article of war
ash-coloured
aughrim (aghrim)
azonal vegetation
bitter almond
bolt action repeating shotgun
booster nozzle
box-typed leg
callous ulcer
Chisledon
cholera red
Company Dissolution
compound telescope
corner separator
crawlerpulled
cross charging
cunaxas
data transfer system
Davis'mouthgag
de-briefs
depalmitoylated
disturbance response
dump component
edge load stress
editer console
Eriococcinae
expected return of a portfolio
Festuca nitidula
fluid form
general accounting system
Goniobasis
Gray, Stephen
in all weathers
indecomposable representation
infra-black synchronizing signal
inscattering correction
intermusculary
iot
isocoumarin
jibal
late release cylinder
launder classifier
lig. collaterale ulnare
lintstock
M.B.
Marie's quadrilateral space
material handling department
metastatizing
mittimuses
motoring friction
multiobjective interactive programming method
ncoes
neutroflavine
niuzhuang
noiseless speed
nominal element
non-zero-sum game policy
nutria
ocotea oil
off-basest
one - party state
particulates
penderecki
phyllostachys nigra var.henonis (miff)staph. et rendle
pinwheel flower
plantscale
plumed tussocks
processus falciformis (lig. sacrotuberosi)
quantizing interval
rare earth oxides of the rare-earth metals
reference stiffness
regulatory commodity agreement
removal sod right
reteable property
revle
robert anson heinleins
scalenus anticus syndrome
Scaroni
secondary markets
shift schedule
single sail
sloceco-
square opening single end box wrench
stock-minded
subsidiary battery
sun flash
tetraphernl silicane
TMSI
toll on transit
town square
transformed lattice structure
unfired combined-cycle system
v.h
vanger
wagemen
warm-work
whoof
Zaire