辦公室英語行話

　　Water-cooler chat

　　This is an Americanism that has crossed over into British English too. Most offices these days have a water cooler, and this phrase has come to mean anything that people talk about when they happen to meet at the water cooler. This tends to refer to gossip or trivial things like discussing what happened in the soap opera that was on last night.

　　這是一個(gè)美式短語，它同樣也存在于英式英語中。現(xiàn)在許多公司都有飲水機(jī)，這個(gè)短語的意思是，大家在喝水的時(shí)候碰到會(huì)談?wù)撘恍┦虑�。這會(huì)涉及到一些閑聊或者瑣碎的事情，像討論前天晚上肥皂劇的劇情是怎么發(fā)展的。

　　下班臨近

　　Close of play

　　Often shortened to COP in emails and text messages, and also as end of play or EOP, this simply means by the end of the working day. Why do bosses ask if they can have this work done by close of play rather than just asking if they can have it done today? Perhaps they are trying to make work sound more fun, as close of play is a sporting term, particularly used when it comes to cricket, where it means when the game ends for the day.

　　在郵件和短信里通常會(huì)被縮寫為COP，也同樣可以寫作EOP,end of play，它的意思僅僅是下班前。為什么老板會(huì)問他們是否能在下班前把這個(gè)工作做完而不是問今天他們能不能把它做完?也許他們在嘗試讓工作聽起來更有趣，結(jié)束是當(dāng)做一個(gè)體育術(shù)語，特別是用于板球的結(jié)尾，在這里它的意思是一天板球運(yùn)動(dòng)的結(jié)尾。

　　休假

　　Annual leave

　　In the days before office-speak took over, people would simply say that they were going on holiday. But that doesn’t sound quite corporate, serious and professional enough. So you’ll often find people referring to their summer holiday as their ‘period of annual leave,’ for example, in their out-of-office auto reply email.

　　這些天，在辦公室閑聊接手之前，人們會(huì)簡單的說他們要去度假。但是這聽起來相當(dāng)不合群體，不嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)和不專業(yè)。因此你會(huì)經(jīng)常發(fā)現(xiàn)人們會(huì)提到他們的暑假作為他們的.‘休假’，例如，在他們不在辦公室的時(shí)候回復(fù)郵件。

　　打印稿

　　hard cope

　　More and more of our work documents are created and shared online without the need for printing, which is better for the environment as well as saving us time and effort. But sometimes real, physical documents are required. When someone wants a physical print out of a document rather than an electronic copy, they will ask for a hard copy.

　　我們越來越多的工作文件沒有必要打印，在網(wǎng)上直接寫出來同大家一起分享，這種環(huán)境會(huì)更好，也會(huì)節(jié)約我們的時(shí)間和努力。但是有些時(shí)候真的，一些物理文檔是需要紙質(zhì)版的。當(dāng)有人想要紙質(zhì)文件而不是電子版的文時(shí)件，他們會(huì)要一個(gè)打印稿。

　　頭打開思維

　　think outside the box

　　No one knows what the box is, or what’s inside it, but bosses seem to like it when workers are outside it. If someone at your work asks you to think outside the box it means they don’t want you to limit your thinking. They want creativity, and ideas, and thinking outside the mainstream. This term is used to try and encourage new ideas and a fresh approach to problems.

　　沒有人知道這個(gè)盒子的范圍是什么，或者里面裝有什么，但是老板們似乎喜歡員工們都在外面。如果有人在你的工作范圍要求你去打開思維想想外在的方面，這意味著他們不想限制你的思維想讓你開發(fā)空間。他們想要的是創(chuàng)新，好點(diǎn)子和想到市場的主流。這個(gè)術(shù)語被用作試圖激勵(lì)員工想出新辦法和一個(gè)新方法來解決問題。

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