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3.Will I get paid extra if I stay Iate?

我加班有加班费吗?

4.I have some extra hours this week I don't need.

我这周额外的工作时间太多了。

5.Do you think you could stay Iate tonight?I need to come home.

你今天晚上能晚点儿回去吗?我今天要早点回家。

6.Oh man, I have to work Iate tonight.

天哪,我今晚得工作到很晚。

7.Could you work Iate tonight?

今天晚上你能加班吗?

8.Do you know how Iong I have to stay?

你知道我要加班多长时间吗?

9.Typically I can work Iate on Thursday and Friday.

通常我可以在周四和周五加班。

10.I don't need all these hours.

我不想工作那么长时间。

实用情景对话

Working Hours

Mary:How many hours a week do you work in the States?

Jimmy:Normally, forty hours a week from Monday through Friday. But working hours vary according to the company.

Mary:What if you work more than forty hours a week?Do you get paid?

Jimmy:Certainly. Most workers get paid by the hour and if you work more than forty hours or on weekends you get paid overtime.

Mary:That sounds a pretty fair system.

Jimmy:Except if you're in a high position. Most company executives cannot receive overtime pay.

工作时间

玛丽:你们在美国一周工作几小时?

吉米:正常的工作时间是每周周一到周五总共40个小时。但是工作时间因公司而异。

玛丽:如果超时怎么办?有钱领吗?

吉米:当然。大部分的员工都是按小时计酬,如果工作超过40 个小时或周末上班,都可以拿到加班费。

玛丽:那似乎是个公平的制度。

吉米:职位高的除外。大部分公司的经理是拿不到加班费的。

欧美文化360°洗礼

时间管理的5个高效方法

Time management is essential in our high-speed, always-on culture, yet most advice you'll find on this topic is pretty vague."Setting goals"and"making time work for you"are, um, great, but so are practical efficiencies.Because Desk is home to thousands of self-starting contract workers, we've seen many efficiency tricks。

时间管理在如今这个高效地,不断发展的文化氛围中是非常重要的。但是迄今为止关于时间管理的建议仍是很模糊的。“设定目标”以及“让时间为你工作”确实都很重要,但是实际效率也是非常重要的。很多成功自主创业人士为我们提供了不少行之有效的方法。

The headline promises five steps for time management, but they all come from a single principle:You can only do one thing at a time, so do it right.

虽然标题说的是时间管理的五个步骤,但总的说来只有一个规则,那就是:你一次只能做一件事情,所以做好它。

1.Finish what you've started 完成你开始了的事情

This is the core idea:Where possible, working a single task to completion is more efficient. When you sit down to work, you spend a few minutes just getting"settled in"before you're productive.If you jump from task to half-finished task all the time, that's a lot of minutes lost to"rolling up your sleeves."

这一点至关重要:尽可能地完成一件任务更有效率。实际上,当你坐下来开始工作时,你需要几分钟来进入工作状态。如果你总是工作到一半又去做另外一件事情,那你会浪费很多行动的时间。

2.Think small 从小处着想

You can't always spend several hours working straight through on a single big job. Don't think in those terms.Use a simple to-do list, and take each item to completion without interruption, unless something's literally on fire.An example for the job-seeker:It's not"I'll look for jobs this afternoon,"it's checking email for replies to previous applications, scanning preferred job sites, writing cover letters, and tweaking your resume for each solid lead, etc.

不要总是认为应该花几个小时去解决一个大而艰巨的任务。列一份工作清单,然后按照清单来一项项地完成工作。除非有十万火急的事情,否则执行时就不要间断。就拿求职者来说,不是说你今天下午要找很多份工作,而是应该检查以前投递的简历是否有了回复,浏览一些适合的工作网站,写几分求职信,并认真修改你的简历,使之切实可行。

3.Quit stalling 拒绝拖延

Once you're organizing by simple components, it's easier to dive right into the small tasks. It takes a lot of warm up and deep breaths before you jump off a high-dive and we're less hesitant about walking down a flight of steps.

一旦将你的工作分割成几个小的部分,就更加容易完成任务。众所周知,在高台跳水时需要做大量的热身工作和深呼吸,但进入走上高台的台阶时,我们就会少了一分犹豫。

4.PIay well with others 与他人良好的合作

When you're working as part of a team, make sure you're prioritizing what you do to get the most important parts into the production line. Nothing's worse than having people stand around waiting for you to produce.In a job search, prioritize anyone who's waiting to hear from you;hiring managers looking for self-starters(and who isn't?)will appreciate and remember your promptness.

如果你在一个团队中的工作是做好一些重要的零件,那么你应该优先做好你的工作,以确保生产线能正常运转。没有比要其他人等着你的工作完成才能进入下个工序更糟糕的事情了。在找工作时,优先回答那些等待你答复的人;聘用经理时寻找那些能主动做事的人(谁不是呢?),这样大家一定会明白并记住你的高效率。

5.Analyze your output 分析你的产出

How could you have been more efficient?How much of your time goes to trivial, mundane work rather than the challenging stuff you enjoy and that your boss values?Job-seekers, log the time you spend at various job sites, and count how many real leads that effort yields.This way you can reprioritize your efforts for high value results.Why are you still lurking on that job board that dried up two years ago?

怎么样才可以更有效的工作?你有多少时间是浪费在世俗的琐事上,而不是用来完成你所热爱的挑战或者你上司所赏识的工作上呢?求职者们,记录下你们在不同求职场所所花的时间,并计算下真正达到效果的时间是多少吧。如此一来,你便能重新努力去追求高价值的事情。如果一个求职平台两年前就倒闭了,为什么你还在那里徘徊不前呢?

7.工作压力 Work Pressure

如何减轻工作压力:转移注意力,合理地安排工作,给自已一个喝茶的时间,分散工作法,不可能完成的工作一定要及时跟领导沟通。

交流应急句

1.My boss is such an asshole.

我的老板真是个混蛋。

2.It is very close to the deadline.

快到截止日期了。

3.Today at work, I wasn't able to do all the stuff I had to do!

今天工作的时候,我无法完成我所有的工作。

4.The job is getting really rough.

工作越来越艰难了。

5.How do you handle pressure?

你是怎样处理压力的?

6.I don't know how much Ionger I can stand this.

我不知道自己还能坚持多久?

7.I think you should quit now and get it over with.

我觉得你应该现在就辞职并且处理好一切。

8.This job is really starting to wear on me.

我开始对这份工作感到恼火了。

实用情景对话

Work Pressure

Lillian:Work is becoming impossible.

Linda:Why?

Lillian:I have so many things to do. I'm so stressed out that it isn't even funny.

Linda:Well, just chill out today, you have the day off.

Lillian:Yeah, but what I can think about is the deadlines I need to meet.

Linda:At work?

Lillian:Yeah, I have to have entire back room re-organized by Friday.

Linda:What else?

Lillian:I need to come up with a new marketing scheme for our dairy products also.

Linda:It sounds Iike that they are just taking advantage of you, man.

Lillian:You think?

Linda:Yeah, I would quit if I were you.

工作压力

莉莲:工作越来越难以完成了。

琳达:为什么?

莉莲:我有太多的工作要做,我太累了,甚至觉得很没意思。

琳达:今天你休假,放松一下吧。

莉莲:是的,但是我满脑子想的都是需要面对的截止日期。

琳达:工作上的?

莉莲:是的,截止到周五我得把整个里屋重新整理一下。

琳达:还有其它的吗?

莉莲:我还要给我们的奶制品提出新的市场策划。

琳达:听起来他们好象只是在利用你。

莉莲:你这么想的吗?

琳达:是啊,如果我是你的话就辞职。