时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是方方要问的:跟班打杂的。

Donny: Hey, Fang 1 Fang, what's up? Do you like your new job?

FF: 啊,还行吧。就是初来乍到,专业一点都用不上,尽打杂了。

Donny: 打杂?What do you do everyday?

FF: 无非就是复印文件,取东西,接电话什么的。哎?美国人怎么形容这种工作啊?

Donny: Oh! Someone who does small and unimportant tasks at work is called a go-for. g-o-f-o-r, go-for.

FF: 哦! 这么说,go-for 就是公司里的小弟小妹! go-for 的主要工作就是跑腿儿。那“跑腿”又怎么说呢?

Donny: We say they "run errands for others." Run is spelled r-u-n, errands is spelled e-r-r-a-n-d-s. The word "errand" means a short trip that's taken to finish a necessary task.

FF: Errand 差事,复数加s, errands, 所以 run errands for others 就是替别人“跑腿”的意思。

Donny: That's right. I guess you don't really like running errands for your boss, right?

FF: 是啊,我想做有意义的工作,可老板总让我干些没用的活儿。

Donny: She gives you a lot of busy work, I'm assuming? The phrase "busy work" refers to tasks that keep people busy but are not very useful.

FF: 哦! 原来,busy work 就是花时间,但没意义的工作。老板给我 busy work,并不是因为这些工作重要,而是因为她不愿意看我闲着!

Donny: That's right! Fangfang, a lot of people start as go-fors and work their way up. I'm sure you'll do just fine. Now let's see what you've learned today!

FF: 公司里跑腿打杂的小弟小妹叫 go-for;

跑腿是 run errands for others;

消磨时间,但是没意义的工作是 busy work.



1 fang
n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
学英语单词
0371
2-tridecanone
a gentleman
Academy of Medical Science
Alevaire
approximate value
balanced development
Berck
biparental zygote
birds of minerva
Bisenzio, Fiume
blended fabric
blomary
by pass current
cantharus
cathelectrode
chloroquine phosphate injection
circumflexes
clark science interests checklist
crimes of commission by omission
declining balance
deseasonalizing
die lines
digitaria radicosa hirsuta
diver'divided bearing
domestic investment
efx
entr'acte
environmental tobacco smoke
erysy
extra-limital
facial profile
fibromyxosarcoma
garbage pickups
global threshold
go Fanti
god-given
gunze
gynie
hempatargia
hollow drill steel
idle revolution
inoperable sensor
Investment Horizon
isolu
Kelts
kithairon
Krav Maga
lamellar domain
landscape pattern
legal ethics
Leschenault, C.
LFTk
Lianga B.
Littlemore
locking tray
mariscuss
marmota caligatas
mechanical seal ring
methylene dicotoin
mint master
misogyny
modernize
monochamus fascioguttatus
Montelupo Fiorentino
most-favo(u)red-nation tariff
musculo-spiral nerve(or radial nerve)
nonabsolute
on premises sales
one term
ortho-alkylation
oust from
perceptively
perges
petromorphology
plasson
pressure-die-casting
psammopapillary adenomyoma
race-goer
reinhabit
release identification
second-order block
shallow water species
shideler
shortfin makoes
smart way
special drawing right
split straws
spoligotype
spriteliness
stricture of pancreatic duct
tax planning scheme
teething problems
the plate pieces of spherical storage tank
to one's heart's content
trichosperma mytri
uenobrium piceorubrum
unequities
vuorelainenite
wingbeat
zymogeneous flore