商務英語口語對話:罷工和示威遊行
A:Do you have the day off today?How come you're not at work now?
B:I don't have the day off. Our labor union is staging a nationwide strike today,all of the workers in our department are supporting the labor union by participating and not going in to work this week.
A:Are you serious? Why would they have to go to such extreme measures like a strike? Doesn't your company have a pretty good corporate image? I'll bet the folks at headquarters are going nuts over something as serious as a strike....
B:It happens quite often,ever there arises a dispute between the union and the executive group,the first thing they do is to call a strike. Usually it only lasts a day or two before both sides can come to an agreement and we start work again. Anyhow,it's a nice,unanticipated holiday...
今天你們放假了?你現在怎麼不去上班?
我沒放假.我們工會今天要在全國舉行罷工,我們部門的所有工人都支持工會,或去參加罷工或這周不上班.
你這話當真?他們爲什麼採取像罷工這樣極端的手段?你們公司的企業形象不是很好嗎?我敢說總部的那些人對這樣嚴重的罷工快發瘋了…
實際上,這類事情經常發生.只要工會和管理者之間出現爭執,他們要做的第一件事就是號召罷工.通常在雙方達成一致之前一至兩天,然後我們再開始工作.不管怎樣,這個意想不到的假日也不錯.
Stage: to organize and take part in action that needs careful planning, especially as a public protest 組織;籌劃
to stage a strike/demonstration/march/protest
strike: a period of time when an organized group of employees of a company stops working because of a disagreement over pay or conditions 罷工;罷課;罷市
the train drivers' strike
火車司機罷工
a strike by teachers
教師舉行的罷課
a general/unofficial/one-day strike
總╱未得到批准的╱爲期一天的罷工
Air traffic controllers are threatening to come out on/go on strike.
空中交通管制員威脅要舉行罷工.
Half the workforce are now(out) on strike.
現在有半數職工罷工.
The train drivers have voted to take strike action.
火車司機投票表決採取罷工行動.
The student union has called for a rent strike(= a refusal to pay rent as a protest).
學生會呼籲拒繳房租.
Nuts: crazy 瘋狂
My friends think I'm nuts for saying yes.
朋友們認爲我說行是瘋了.
That phone ringing all the time is driving me nuts!
那電話鈴一直響個不停,吵得我快要發瘋了.
