三九天——這么冷
再過幾天就是“三九”了。俗話說：三九四九冰上走?！叭拧币馕吨荒曛凶罾涞娜兆拥搅恕３薱old，英語中還有哪些詞語可以表達“寒冷”呢?
1. The bathroom gets chilly in the winter.
冬天浴室變得很冷。
2. She opened the window and I was hit by an icy blast of air.
她打開窗戶，一陣刺骨的寒風向我襲來。
3. He leant forward to protect himself against the biting wind.
他佝僂著身體以避寒風。
4. Wrap up warmly - it's bitter outside.
穿暖和些——外面特別冷。
5. The evening was cold and raw.
那個晚上寒冷刺骨。
6. Walking ?home in the ?snow, we got ?chilled to the ?bone.
我們蹚著雪往家走，快要凍僵了。
7. It was a cold and frosty morning.
那是個天寒地凍的早晨。
8. It's a ?bit parky today, ?love - you'll ?want ?your ?coat!
親愛的，外面有點冷，你穿件外套吧!
9. I'm frozen - could you ?close the ?window?
我凍僵了都，你可以關(guān)下窗嗎?
10. It's freezing in here - can I close the window?
這兒冷極了——我把窗戶關(guān)上可以嗎?
庸才當?shù)?/STRONG>
當今社會，最看重的就是人才。要想成功經(jīng)營一家企業(yè)，首先就要擦亮眼睛選好雇員，避免出現(xiàn)“庸才當?shù)馈钡臓顩r。
Bozo explosion is the large number of inept employees that a company ends up with when it hires an incompetent executive, who in turn hires incompetent managers, who then hire incompetent workers.
“庸才當?shù)馈笔侵敢患夜締⒂昧艘晃粺o能的高管，此高管又聘用了不稱職的經(jīng)理，經(jīng)理而后雇用了一堆無能的員工，最終導(dǎo)致公司里不稱職的雇員為數(shù)眾多的狀況。
Bozo作為美式英語里的俚語，有“笨蛋;傻瓜”的意思。而explosion作名詞為“爆炸，激增”的意思。因此這個組合很形象的形容了一個企業(yè)被沒有能力的員工充斥的狀況。除了Bozo explosion，bozo bomber也可以表達類似的意思。
The Bozo Explosion was possibly coined by Steve Jobs at Apple:
“庸才當?shù)馈焙芸赡苁翘O果公司的史蒂夫·喬布斯創(chuàng)造的詞語：
"Actually, Steve believed that A players hire A players—that is people who are as good as they are. I refined this slightly—my theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves. It's clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called 'the bozo explosion' to happen in your organization," said Guy Kawasaki.
蓋伊·川崎稱：“實際上，史蒂夫認為，一流人才會雇用一流人才——那些和他們一樣優(yōu)秀的人。我稍微完善一下這個理念，我的理論是：一流人才會雇用那些比他們更優(yōu)秀的人才。那么顯而易見，二流員工會雇用三流庸才，這樣他們才感覺能駕馭手下人。以此類推，三流庸才雇得是四流雇員。如果你開始雇了二流人才，你的團隊就會出現(xiàn)史蒂夫稱之為‘庸才當?shù)馈默F(xiàn)象?！?BR> Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple.
蓋伊·川崎是Canva公司的首席宣傳官。Canva是一家經(jīng)營在線平面設(shè)計工具的公司。此前，他曾任谷歌的摩托羅拉業(yè)務(wù)部顧問和蘋果公司的首席宣傳官。
For Example：
Years ago, I was trying to figure out how to get my first company off the ground. One concept that stuck with me was "preventing the bozo explosion".
幾年前，我正在想辦法如何讓我開的第一家公司“步入正軌”。一個觀念使我印象深刻：防止出現(xiàn)“庸才當?shù)馈钡臓顩r。
男性回答綜合征
一群朋友在一起聊天，無論別人提什么問題，總有一個人搶著回答，雖然，他的回答可能并不是很靠譜。嗯，身邊這樣“無所不知”的人還真是不少呢!他們是不是都患了“男性回答綜合征”啊?
Male answer syndrome(MAS) is the tendency for some men to answer a question even when they don't know the answer.
“男性回答綜合征”指部分男性聽到有人提問題就想回答，無論是否真的知道答案。
Try an experiment. Ask a male friend a question, something completely outside his sphere of expertise.
來做個試驗，問你的男性朋友一個問題，而且是完全在他知識范圍以外的問題。
Will you get an answer? Chances are, you will. The male friend is exhibiting behavior known as Male Answer Syndrome. It's the compulsion by many individuals (mostly men, but sometimes women) to answer questions readily, regardless of knowledge.
他會回答嗎?很可能會的。這位男性朋友表現(xiàn)出的就是“男性回答綜合征”。這是很多人(大部分是男性，有時也有女性)都有的一種強迫性沖動，遇到有人提問題，無論是否了解，都想要要回答一下。
Psychologists tell us it's a form of "male display behavior" and is a subtle method of attracting females. "Men have the courage and inventiveness to try to explain the inexplicable." A man may even start to believe his own baloney. This might account, in part, for the disproportionate number of men over women actively successful in the arts.
心理學家告訴我們，這是“男性表現(xiàn)行為”的一種形式，同時也是吸引女性的一種巧妙手段。心理學家認為，“男性有勇氣和創(chuàng)造力去試圖解釋難以理解的事物?！倍?，男性甚至會相信自己的胡扯。這也許可以從某種角度解釋為什么在藝術(shù)領(lǐng)域獲得成功的男性比女性多。
生育時間表
隨著“二孩政策”正式實施，以及猴年即將來臨，生育高峰已經(jīng)開始顯現(xiàn)。一些能夠受益的行業(yè)必然是喜不自禁，然而陸續(xù)有員工懷孕、備孕，卻讓用人單位犯了難。因為擔心缺乏人手，長春一單位制定了“生育時間表”，要求員工提前報備、排隊生育。
Some companies have formulated a "birth time schedule" that stipulates employees should report to their employers one year prior to a planned second child.
一些公司制定了“生育時間表”，計劃生二孩的員工應(yīng)提前一年向公司報告。
“生育時間表”(birth time schedule)是個別公司擔心員工扎推懷孕會造成人手短缺而制定的臨時措施，要求員工提前報備，排隊生育。Schedule一詞多用來指有詳細時間安排的日程表，比如：bus schedule(公共汽車時刻表)、work schedule(工作日程表)等;這個詞也可以直接作動詞，指計劃在某個時間做某事，比如：The space shuttle is scheduled to blast off at 04:38.(航天飛機計劃在凌晨4點38分發(fā)射升空。)
二孩放開，社會上方方面面都會受到不同程度的影響。不少企業(yè)對此憂心忡忡，因為很多想生二孩、或者是已經(jīng)在備孕(planning for pregnancy)的職工，可能會造成企業(yè)人手短缺(labor shortage)影響到單位的工作運轉(zhuǎn)。
有業(yè)內(nèi)人士預(yù)估，“全面二孩”實施后，以每年平均增加100萬-200萬新生兒的速度計算，預(yù)計2018年新生兒有望超2000萬人。在這個數(shù)字背后，房地產(chǎn)(real estate)、食品玩具、醫(yī)療健康、家用汽車(family automobiles)、在線教育(online education)等行業(yè)都將受益，但最直接的受益者應(yīng)該算母嬰用品行業(yè)(baby, kids & maternity products)。