办公室的“软面行李箱”
时间：2019-03-11 作者：英语课 分类：英文语法词汇
英语课
办公室的“软面行李箱”
听到有人抱怨自己工作太忙、活太多的时候，我们可能会用一句“能者多劳”来安慰他们。在英语中，我们管这类人叫做soft-sided luggage（软面行李箱），意思是说他们像这行李箱一样总有空间装更多的东西。
Soft-sided luggage refers to an employee whose talent and multi-tasking abilities allows him or her to take on assignment after assignment. They, like soft-side luggage, seemingly expand to handle the workload 1. Of course, they completely collapse 2 on weekends.
“软面行李箱”指才能出众、能同时处理多项任务的员工通常会接手一个又一个任务，就像软面行李箱一样可以拓展出空间来装更多的东西。当然，这些人一到周末基本都累昏过去了。
For example:
Jenny is like a soft-sided luggage in the office. She is taking most of the assignments and can always handle them properly.
珍妮就像办公室里的软面行李箱一样，大部分的工作任务都由她接手，而且她都能处理好。
n.作业量，工作量
- An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
- He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。
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