时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Forming a Union


Norma: What is this? 


Jimmy: It’s a flyer for a meeting I’ve called to talk about forming a labor 1 union here. 


Norma: Here? Do you think the management will let us? 


Jimmy: They can’t stop us. We’re working longer and longer hours and we need to demand higher pay. We also need better work conditions and a say in hiring and firing procedures. All of us need to band together to have better bargaining power. 


Norma: I don’t know. I want to be better paid and to have job security like everybody else, but I’m afraid of what will happen when we start agitating 2


Jimmy: I’ll tell you what will happen: The management will finally hear what we have to say. With collective bargaining, the rank and file will get what we deserve, at long last. Are you in or out? 


Norma: I’ll have to think about it. 


Jimmy: He who hesitates is lost. 


Norma: Yes, but I was always taught to look before I leap. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 agitating
搅动( agitate的现在分词 ); 激怒; 使焦虑不安; (尤指为法律、社会状况的改变而)激烈争论
  • political groups agitating for social change 鼓吹社会变革的政治团体
  • They are agitating to assert autonomy. 他们正在鼓吹实行自治。
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acesulfame-k
active power filter
age-level
ameroseius magnisetosa
an eye for the beautiful
annunziatas
ansar al-islams
atrophia testiculi
bankoes
barbut
Bayes sequential decision function
broomball
cat (computer aided test)
centrifugal pump with vertical axis
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charging dome
chorisis
circular muscle of swim bladder
clearways
color bloom
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complex coordinate
conclusin
container carrying car
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dentates
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double-checked
ECG-505
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endobenthic
enograph
Essaouira
exposed to air
factural
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first kind Stirling numbers
flood irrigation
fortran callable subroutine
Franke
front nozzle
frontal lobe syndrome
Goldblatt unit
harvestfish
homographic system for convolution
Hong Kongese
hydrostatic fuel level gage
identifying calibration
indication phantom
interchangeable parts
Konomai
labrals
low-level flight
malondialkhyde
mechanical fuze
mercery
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mudlifter
multiagent reasoning
nes
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otus asios
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Petrophytia
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representative of commodity dealer
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scene-setting
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seropathotype
silk spruce
sort collate operation
srmc
submersible type
take her down
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trout-stream
twin-trailer train
union tannage
voiceprint
work-life balance
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