职场英语中的口语表达

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英语短语

1. Off the top of one’s head
   • 中文解释：字面上是指听到一个问题时，第一时间出现的看法或想法，虽未经深思熟虑，但这种猜测一般来说是正确的，其误差不大。
   • 英文解释：Without careful thought or investigation
   • 例句："How much is the house worth?" "Off the top of my head, I'd say it's worth maybe $160,000."
2. Give someone a heads up
   1. 中文解释：注意，事先提醒
   2. 英文解释：To tell someone that something is going to happen
   3. 例句：Please give me a heads-up when you arrive.
3. Join/connect the dots
   1. 中文解释：把…联系起来
   2. 英文解释：To make connections between people or events that seem not to be connected so that you can understand what is happening.
   3. 例句：
      1. Spy chiefs say that by joining the dots between archived calls and terrorist suspects they can keep the country safe.
      2. Once I started to connect the dots, I realized that, if they took all the equipment, the Department probably will not remain.
4. Long story short
   1. 中文解释：长话短说
   2. 英文解释：Used when you do not tell all the details
   3. 例句：To make a long story short, one branch of the primate tree evolved the capacity to use verbal sounds instead of gaze to pick out objects of intended mutual attention.
5. Stand by someone
   1. 中文解释：支持（身处困境的人）
   2. 英文解释：To support or be loyal to someone or something.
   3. 例句：The boy’s friends stood by him, firmly convinced of his innocence.
6. At your (earliest) convenience
   1. 中文解释：在你方便的时候; 尽早
   2. 英文解释：As soon as possible
   3. 例句：We should be grateful if you would reply at your earliest convenience.
7. Escalating someone’s concern to someone
   1. 中文解释：把担忧上报给…
   2. 英文解释：Taking a concern further by submitting evidence and going through the formal organization processes.
   3. 例句：I will escalate your concern to the supervisor.
8. And so on and so forth
   1. 中文解释：等等
   2. 英文解释：You use and so on or and so forth at the end of a list to indicate that there are other items that you could also mention.
   3. 例句：...the government's policies on such important issues as health, education, tax, and so on.

英语词语

1. Downtime
   1. Definition: Time during which production is stopped especially during setup for an operation or when making repairs; inactive time (such as time between periods of work)
   2. Example：
      1. Programmers have worked overtime for days, they really need some downtime.
      2. Napping during our downtime
      3. An injured athlete facing months of downtime
2. tangible
   1. Definition: that can be clearly seen to exist; perceptible by touch
   2. Example: The atmosphere of neglect and abandonment was almost tangible.
3. informative
   1. Definition: providing useful or interesting information.
   2. Example: be informative by looking at the column name
4. ancillary
   1. Definition: providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system.
   2. Example: ancillary revenues
5. Reconciliation
   1. Definition: An end to a disagreement and the start of a good relationship again
   2. Example: There was always an opportunity for reconciliation open.
6. Consolidate
   1. Definition: the action or process of combining a number of things into a single more effective or coherent whole.
   2. Example: Consolidate all the data into one single warehouse.to delivery the analysis requests.
7. steering committee
   1. Definition: A steering committee is an advisory body that’s part of IT—or other—governance. Members include experts, authority figures, and senior stakeholders in a project or organization. As a result, they have a significant stake in how each project is managed. Thus, key concerns for steering committees are the direction, scope, budget, timeliness, and methods used. Steering committees generally meet periodically to discuss each of these aspects and help set, or reset, direction.

英语缩写

1. WIP: work-in-progress

会议相关

1. 会议超时
   1. The last meeting ran over.
   2. The meeting went longer than planned/expected/scheduled.
   3. The meeting didn't end on time, it went over/ ran long/ finished late.
2. 结束会议的总结语
   1. To wrap up
   2. To sum up
   3. To recap
      1. Recap can also be used as noun. E.g. Give me a recap of the points we covered last week.