英語聽力小短文走遍全世界:老員工更受歡迎

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英語聽力原文：

Older staff are more productive than their younger colleagues, say researchers. More mature members of staff may be weaker and less agile than their junior counterparts, but they more than compensate with their greater experience, ability to work in teams, and success at coping when things go wrong. The researchers say: While older workers make more errors, perhaps due to declining physical attributes, they hardly make any severe errors, perhaps due to more experience. It is experience that prevents severe errors.

有專家經(jīng)過研究發(fā)現(xiàn)：公司的老員工比年輕一輩，特別是新一代的大學(xué)生更有競爭力。雖然他們相對年輕的同業(yè)者來說，可能身體不夠強(qiáng)健，思維不夠敏捷，但是他們經(jīng)驗(yàn)更豐富，團(tuán)隊合作能力更強(qiáng)，處理危機(jī)的能力也更強(qiáng)。專家總結(jié)：因?yàn)槟挲g的原因，年紀(jì)越大，生理功能下降，老員工有可能會犯很多小錯誤;但是另一方面，由于老員工擁有更多的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，他們不會犯許多大的、嚴(yán)重的錯誤。

The scientists who studied production lines at a Mercedes-Benz truck factory in southern Germany also found that younger, more highly educated workers were less productive than those who had fewer qualifications — perhaps because the educated workers got bored more easily. The researchers, from the University of Mannheim, said their findings debunked the idea that older workers should be made redundant to boost productivity.

在德國 南部梅賽德斯·奔馳工廠生產(chǎn)線的科學(xué)家發(fā)現(xiàn)，年輕、教育水平更高的工作比那些證書拿得少的員工(老員工)生產(chǎn)效率要低很多。科學(xué)家分析，教育程度高的年輕人在工作中容易感覺無聊，不懂得沉下心去研究工作。來自Mannheim大學(xué)的研究員稱，這項研究徹底顛覆了——老員工才對工作產(chǎn)生懈怠感覺的理論。

英語單詞詞匯整理:

1. productive adj. 有成效的

eg: Science and technology are part of the productive forces.

科學(xué)技術(shù)是生產(chǎn)力。

短語：

productive investment 生產(chǎn)性投資;生產(chǎn)投資

productive time 生產(chǎn)時間

productive capacity 生產(chǎn)率;處理能力

2. agile adj. 敏捷的，靈活的

eg: An acrobat has to be agile.

雜技演員必須身手敏捷。

短語：

agile missile 靈巧導(dǎo)彈

Agile Buddy 跳板游戲;地獄三百層

3. cope vi. 應(yīng)付，對抗，妥善處理

eg: He had a lot of work, but he was able to cope.

他的活雖多,但還能應(yīng)付得來。

短語：

cope with 處理;應(yīng)付

coping style 應(yīng)對方式

coping strategy 應(yīng)對策略

coping stone 墩臺石

4. debunk vt. 揭穿真相，暴露

eg: Don't let me debunk you.

不要讓我揭穿你。

短語：

debunk it 揭穿它

debunk myths 破除誤區(qū)

the truth by debunk 真相被揭穿

5. redundant adj. 多余的，累贅的，解雇的

eg: There are too many redundant words in this book.

這本書里多余的詞太多。

短語：

redundancy payment 失業(yè)金

redundant code 冗余碼

redundant information 冗余信息

佳句采摘：

More mature members of staff may be weaker and less agile than their junior counterparts, but they more than compensate with their greater experience, ability to work in teams, and success at coping when things go wrong.

雖然他們相對年輕的同業(yè)者來說，可能身體不夠強(qiáng)健，思維不夠敏捷，但是他們經(jīng)驗(yàn)更豐富，團(tuán)隊合作能力更強(qiáng)，處理危機(jī)的能力也更強(qiáng)。