Unit25 WorkandPosts
Dialogues /monologues:
1、Inevitably sometimes I'll end up working evenings and weekends to meet deadline.
有時候，我為了最后期限前完成工作，無可避免地開夜車、放棄周末加班。
2、There's often as much stress or even more, because your success all boils down to what you do.
壓力經(jīng)常一樣、甚至更大，因為你的所有成功都得自你的所作所為。（ boil down to sth. 歸結(jié)為 *** ）
3、Sometimes you'll need to do the books （and let's hope you're not too creative with that）, and sometime you have to market your services, or clean up code , or cut and paste copy.
有時候你得做書面工作（讓我們姑且認為你不在這方面創(chuàng)意泛濫吧），有時候你必須推廣你們的服務(wù)，或者整理代碼，或者剪切、粘貼副本。
4、You may be working with an entire company's worth of differing agendas and personalities to develop a website.
為了建成一個公司網(wǎng)站，你可能要利用到整個公司的種種議事日程和個性信息。（worth 在這里是個量詞， “ 整個的 ” ）
5、Take the approach that in order to fit in and contribute.
利用剛才的方法及早上手，并作出點貢獻吧。
6、Will I have interesting features from APTN, Reuters, CNN or other partners?
我們會不會上美聯(lián)環(huán)球電視、路透社、有線新聞網(wǎng)或者其他伙伴的特別報道??？
Passage:
I work in a university library. I'm a library aide which isn't very high up the ladder in fact and on those organizational flow charts you get mine is the job put at the bottom of the page right in the corner. But I like my work which I know makes me luckier than a lot of people. There's variety, and I get to meet some interesting people. In fact I meet people from places I wouldn't even know where to look for on the map.
There are periods of boredom however, skull-crushing, mind-numbing boredom. And summer is the worst, as you can imagine summer in a university library doesn't exactly buzz. You might think that's a bonus, especially if you've worked somewhere when at times there is almost nothing to do you can't appreciate the sense of time creeping, the felling of sleepiness, the sheer physical dullness in the atmosphere and the sense of something like panic that sets in at the thought of yet another hour of trying to shelve from empty shelves or an hour standing at a desk waiting and hoping for readers to appear. But that only lasts two or three months until, suddenly, they're back and the year starts again with its moments of frantic effort and spells of inactivity.
There are a lot of misconceptions about library work — many of which I was guilty of before I started working in one. Most people think of it, when they think of it at all, for it seems to have this reputation as dull, as a nice, quiet almost charming job. Well, think again. At the sharp end it's hard, heavy and sometimes dangerous work. And if you think I'm kidding about the dangerous part how about the risk of a heavy metal, very springy, hanging bookend flying out from the shelf into your face which has nearly happened to me more than once or a five or six pound book dropping on your head or your foot — both of which actually did happen to me. There are a lot of bruises, paper cuts — and dust.
For all that I have to repeat I enjoy it. When it's not dead quiet it's hectic, the time flies and you get a good feeling of accomplishment. It's a nice place to work, the students mainly are great and so, with one or two exceptions, are the academic staff we have to deal with. And there's a good feeling among the staff, especially among us lowly, put at the foot of the page in the corner aides.
Dialogues /monologues:
1、Inevitably sometimes I'll end up working evenings and weekends to meet deadline.
有時候，我為了最后期限前完成工作，無可避免地開夜車、放棄周末加班。
2、There's often as much stress or even more, because your success all boils down to what you do.
壓力經(jīng)常一樣、甚至更大，因為你的所有成功都得自你的所作所為。（ boil down to sth. 歸結(jié)為 *** ）
3、Sometimes you'll need to do the books （and let's hope you're not too creative with that）, and sometime you have to market your services, or clean up code , or cut and paste copy.
有時候你得做書面工作（讓我們姑且認為你不在這方面創(chuàng)意泛濫吧），有時候你必須推廣你們的服務(wù)，或者整理代碼，或者剪切、粘貼副本。
4、You may be working with an entire company's worth of differing agendas and personalities to develop a website.
為了建成一個公司網(wǎng)站，你可能要利用到整個公司的種種議事日程和個性信息。（worth 在這里是個量詞， “ 整個的 ” ）
5、Take the approach that in order to fit in and contribute.
利用剛才的方法及早上手，并作出點貢獻吧。
6、Will I have interesting features from APTN, Reuters, CNN or other partners?
我們會不會上美聯(lián)環(huán)球電視、路透社、有線新聞網(wǎng)或者其他伙伴的特別報道??？
Passage:
I work in a university library. I'm a library aide which isn't very high up the ladder in fact and on those organizational flow charts you get mine is the job put at the bottom of the page right in the corner. But I like my work which I know makes me luckier than a lot of people. There's variety, and I get to meet some interesting people. In fact I meet people from places I wouldn't even know where to look for on the map.
There are periods of boredom however, skull-crushing, mind-numbing boredom. And summer is the worst, as you can imagine summer in a university library doesn't exactly buzz. You might think that's a bonus, especially if you've worked somewhere when at times there is almost nothing to do you can't appreciate the sense of time creeping, the felling of sleepiness, the sheer physical dullness in the atmosphere and the sense of something like panic that sets in at the thought of yet another hour of trying to shelve from empty shelves or an hour standing at a desk waiting and hoping for readers to appear. But that only lasts two or three months until, suddenly, they're back and the year starts again with its moments of frantic effort and spells of inactivity.
There are a lot of misconceptions about library work — many of which I was guilty of before I started working in one. Most people think of it, when they think of it at all, for it seems to have this reputation as dull, as a nice, quiet almost charming job. Well, think again. At the sharp end it's hard, heavy and sometimes dangerous work. And if you think I'm kidding about the dangerous part how about the risk of a heavy metal, very springy, hanging bookend flying out from the shelf into your face which has nearly happened to me more than once or a five or six pound book dropping on your head or your foot — both of which actually did happen to me. There are a lot of bruises, paper cuts — and dust.
For all that I have to repeat I enjoy it. When it's not dead quiet it's hectic, the time flies and you get a good feeling of accomplishment. It's a nice place to work, the students mainly are great and so, with one or two exceptions, are the academic staff we have to deal with. And there's a good feeling among the staff, especially among us lowly, put at the foot of the page in the corner aides.