时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:职场礼节英语


英语课

 陈豪去年大学毕业以后,就到北京的美国ABC公司工作。今天他去出席了一个午餐会以后回到公司,还没有走进自己的办公室,就被同事Mary叫住了。


 
(Office ambience)
 
M:Hey, Chao Hao, I need to talk to you。
 
C:What's wrong?
 
M:Did you offer John in the Technology Department a ride to the lunch today?
 
C:(恍然大悟) 哎哟,我忘得一干二净了。
 
M:He waited a long time for you today!
 
C:啊呀,害他等我半天。Oh dear, what should I do?
 
M:Find him immediately and apologize!
 
C:你说什么?Apologize?
 
M:Apologize, A-P-O-L-O-G-I-Z-E, 就是道歉!
 
C:我可不能对他说我忘了,总得找个理由吧!
 
M:不要找出种种理由来解释。 It's always best to be truthful and sincere when you apologize。
 
C:也是。要道歉嘛还是老老实实,找借口让人听起来不诚恳。好,我这就去找John。
 
C:行了,没事了。
 
M:你跟他道歉了?
 
C:不,John已经走了,我给他写个email就行了。
 
M:写email不太好。Email is too impersonal when you need to ask forgiveness。你要道歉最好还是当面说好,更正式一些。
 
C:那,我给John的手机打个电话,好吗?这样不是又快,又能直接讲话嘛!
 
M:That's a good idea。
 
(Making cell phone call)
 
C:Mary, John没接电话,所以我给他留了言,说今天忘了带他去午餐会,我感到很抱歉。这下总算结束了这件事。I'm glad that's over。
 
M: Over? No way! 留个言就算完啦?不行, 你得做得更慎重一些。
 
C:哎,我去找他,他不在。我打手机,他不接。我留了言,道了歉。这还不行呀?
 
M:你最好今天在他桌上留个条。亲自写个条表示道歉会让他感到你很有诚意。要更地道的话,你还可以给他留个小礼物。A small gift as a sign of your sincerity。
 
C:我哪知道他喜欢什么呀?
 
M:他喜欢看篮球。
 
C:OK, I have an idea! 我去买两张篮球比赛的票。我跟他一起去.....当然,要是他不再生我气的话。
 
M:Great! So remember: when you make mistakes, the best thing is to apologize immediately. When a verbal apology is not enough, write a note and give a small gift.
 
C: 知道了,知道了。我这就去买票。谢谢Mary.
 
M:You're welcome!



学英语单词
accumulated income tax reduction
acid-resistance metal
act as if
air specific volume
airshoot
Ammotrechella
analytic tools
Andrimont
ash structure
Atiquizaya
be on the tip of your tongue
bead edge
bloodless castrator
Boksputite
bracco
CAL (calculated average life)
capillary curve
cash-for-work
Caytoniales
chyna
cimbicids
clean air act of 1970
client-server-based
Cobourg Pen.
complete character input
crew-served
cryotherapy of hemorrhoids
cyclic measure
delacoma
direct chill casting
distribution reindforcement
divinylbenzene
double u leather packing
duchesse
enatiomorph
equipotentiality
finishments
finite element method
flow passage
Gephuroceratidae
goings-out
group pilot frequency
Gyobyu Res.
halophilic
haner
Herzog
high pressure and low temperature metamorphic zone
immunolocalising
inverse relationship
ionic state
kanjis
Kapampangan
keystone-type distortion
labial line
lain upon
lay siege
logarithmic base
main servomotor
managerial decision
Marssonia
metallocofactors
monkey with
moving cascade
nickel dip
nondegeneracy
northern atlantic oscillation (nao)
numerical values stability
one way restrictor
ordinal notation
pacbell
papilionine
picture transmitter power
piroshki
polyoxometallates
preference for probability
presynaptic fibers
public liquidator
rerack
resistance fighter
respiratory toxicology
rod drift
rust preventive extreme pressure cutting emulsion
server-prompted scheduling mode
Shilenga
silver jamesonite
Spiradiclis malipoensis
spring adjuster
standard greetings
strain-age hardening
sulfosalicylate
tan liquor
tan spud
technical program
unbenched
uniform-pressure
ventricular ejection velocity
Vernonia cinerea
Videm
wandai decoction
water-sprinkled cooling
work shy
xanthoerythrodermia