跟艾米莉一起學口語 第814期:被解雇

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dismiss

（尤指因做錯事）使免職，將...解職

He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.

他因無法勝任工作而被解職。

axe（美亦作ax）

He has been axed from the team.

他被團隊開除了。

lay off

開除；罷免

The factory is going to lay off many workers.

工廠打算裁員。

經典對話

A: Hello, John. Could you come to my office?

你好，約翰，能來一下我的辦公室嗎？

B: Sure. I'm just coming. Mr green, what can I do for you?

當然，我馬上就來格林先生，請問您找我有什么事嗎？

A: Have a seat, please. The staff in your department are pretty good. Everyone is working hard, these are all inseparable from your management.

請坐。你們部門的員工都很努力，每個人都在認真的工作，這些都離不開你的管理。

B: It's nothing. We also need to improve sales performance in every month to create greater value for the company.

這沒什么，我們還需要提高每個月的銷售業(yè)績，為公司創(chuàng)造更大的價值。

A: Our business has been going down sharply in the past few months and we have to lay off some staff members.

我們的業(yè)務在過去幾個月里急劇下降，我們不得不裁減一些工作人員。

B: Do you mean to cut staff in our department?

你的意思是說在我們部門裁減人員嗎？

A: Yes, I'm sorry to tell you the news. Although you have been working very hard, your department's performance is not very good.

是的，很抱歉告訴你這個消息，雖然你們一直都很努力，但是你們部門的業(yè)績一直不好。

B: I'm among the people who have to go?

我也是其中一員嗎？

A: As a sales manager, you have not increased our sales.

作為銷售經理，你沒有增加我們的銷售量。

B: You know, I've always been very conscientious. This job is especially important to me. I was counting on it to feed my family.

你是知道的，我一直都很盡職盡責。這份工作對我來說很重要，我還指望他養(yǎng)活我的家人呢。

A: I'm so sorry, but this is the board's decision, there's nothing I can do.

我真的很抱歉，但這是董事會的決定，我也無能為力。

B: All right. I try to accept the fact.

好吧，我盡量接受這個事實。