看笑話學(xué)英語:Life after death 死后重生

Life after death 死后重生

英語笑話

Do you believe in life after death ? the boss asked one of his employees .

Yes, sir. the new recruit replied.

Well, then, that makes everything just fine, the boss went on. "After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother's funeral , she stopped in to see you."

中文翻譯

“你相信人能死后重生嗎？”老板問他的一個(gè)員工。

“我相信，先生”。這位剛上班不久的員工回答。

“哦，那還好”。老板接著說?！澳阕蛱焯嵩缦掳嗳⒓幽阕婺傅脑岫Y后，她老人家到這兒看你來了?！?/p>

詞匯點(diǎn)睛

believe in 相信

death [deθ] n. 死，死亡

employee [?m?pl??i?] n. 受雇者，雇工，雇員

recruit [r??kru?t] n. 新成員

funeral [?fju?n?r?l] n. 葬禮，喪禮

stop in 順便來訪

口語實(shí)踐

A　I would like to leave a few minutes early today. Would that be all right?

B　That's fine, as long as you can get that report typed up before you leave.

A　我今天想早走幾分鐘，可以嗎？

B　可以。只要你走之前把那份報(bào)告打完就成。

★type up 打完

A　You missed two days last week and another day the week before. Is everything okay?

B　I'm sorry, I know I've been gone a lot. I have had to go to the doctor a few times recently.

A　你上周缺勤了兩天，上上周也缺勤了一天。一切還好嗎？

B　對(duì)不起，我也知道我缺勤了很多次。我最近得需要去看幾次醫(yī)生。

★recently [?ri?s?ntli] adv. 最近，新近

A　I want to knock off an hour earlier.

B　But you should finish your work.

A　我想提前一小時(shí)下班。

B　不過你應(yīng)當(dāng)完成你的工作。

★knock off 停工，中斷

A　You can't leave early again.

B　Sorry. It won't happen again.

A　你不能再早退了。

B　抱歉，這不會(huì)再發(fā)生了。

笑話文化解讀

美國1938年《合理勞動(dòng)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)法》，美國工作時(shí)間，規(guī)定為：美國普通白班的工作時(shí)間為9:00～17:00；每周工作40小時(shí)。這也是美國聯(lián)邦州和地方政府機(jī)構(gòu)的工作時(shí)間。

美國的政府和企業(yè)均是五天工作制，星期六、日休息。近年來，在職工普遍要求縮減每周工作時(shí)間的努力下，美國公司正逐步推廣“彈性工作時(shí)間制”和“工作共享制”。目前，有些公司甚至開始試行每周四天工作制。然而，金融危機(jī)下，在美國失業(yè)率居高不下的情況下，很多人最擔(dān)心的是被公司下崗，所以很多人對(duì)待老板要求加班時(shí)只能任勞任怨了。畢竟保住工作飯碗是當(dāng)務(wù)之急啊。