时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  Pink slip,粉红色的小纸片?可别误以为是一封浪漫的情书呀,其实,pink slip是一种最残忍的东西——解雇通知书!


  Pink slip也叫做walking papers,可以追溯到20世纪初期,表示“在发给员工的周薪信封里放一张粉红色的小纸条,通知员工解雇的“噩耗”。至于为什么要用粉红色,一方面是为了避免和其他的资料混在一起,以免员工因疏忽没看到通知;另一方面也许是因为粉红色相对比较柔和,可能会对被解雇员工“受伤的心灵”产生一点慰藉作用吧!


  现在,互联网的流行使一切都能像一封电子邮件那么简单快捷,但是pink slip这种说法,还是“顽固”地保留了下来,成为一个带着伤心、也意味着改变的词。


  不过,在我们的职业生涯中,“I am pink slipped”这句话还是不说为妙,宁可说:I dismiss my boss. 









学英语单词
Aegidae
aggregate value method of weighing
altamira
amalgamation yield
American Physicists Association
Angulus superior
application testing
axis of perspective
brockens
buchwald
care of woods
chafe-wax
Charles VII
closed circuit type oxygen apparatus
Community Currency
deh-e sard
deploying speed of drag parachute
deputy district head
distorted region
elasticity of exchange rate
element of best approximation
entrance turn
entry exist visa valid for a single journey
espero
excess chemical potential
fatu-livas
fictionalities
food for powder
Galactia tenuiflora
gastroenteralgia
glottalling
Goodyera matsumurana
grindly
gunnie
hamrins
hardhead sponge
helicobasidium mompa tanaka
hernia of the tunica albuginea
hilar-
hollow-cylinder
holmium hydroxide
Huxley, Mt.
hydrogen clay
iDollator
insentiences
insulating moulding plastic
intangible fixed asset
intercessation
kallen-lehmann representation
key verifier
leptoclase
Long Range Mountains
lowering of vapor pressure
lumber product
mariner's handbook
mean square contingency coefficient
micromicrometer
microphone assembly
multiple-screw vessel
multiroll mill
muttenie
niggon
non-farming
off-the-road tyres
olc
Ontonagon County
paterfamiliases
personal status
postdose
proheparin
pseudo-noise sequence
refiltrations
reversal of magnetization
rhabdornises
rutterschmidt
saeb
secant modulus of elasticity
self-coupling hitch
silverbridge
smoothing problem
snowburn
solvation effect
Stipa subsessiliflora
Swertia binchuanensis
symmetrical effect
synthetic sandalwood oil
the world to come
thuidium kanedae
timber bridge
TMJ stress syndrome
trace evidence
tracer-scale extraction
traffic composition
transmitting device
unit command word
vitreoelectricity
walk with
wandering stars
waterplane area coefficient
wood-engravings
yuan-ming yuan imperial garden?
zootch