14-05-03 If you're looking for a new job, you know you're going to have to answer some tough questions in the interview process. But did you know there are some questions that are illegal for employers to ask you? 如果你正在找工作，那你一定很清楚，面试过程中...

14-05-03 More college graduates in China are opting for work experience instead of advanced degrees, a survey shows. 一项调查显示，中国越来越多的大学毕业生选择找工作，而不是继续深造。 The pragmatic approach, coupled with a record number of students graduatin...

14-04-14 A man was a butterfingers（手脚笨拙的人） . He had been suffering from unemployment for months. At last he found a job in a chinaware house. He had worked only a few days when he dropped a large vase. The manager summoned him to the office and told...

14-03-26 Down The River A fortnight later, the boys were picking apples one golden October afternoon, and the girls were hurrying to finish their work, that they might go and help the harvesters. It was six weeks now since the new school began, and they had...

14-03-14 1. no spring chicken 不再年轻 表示青春已逝，人已经不再年轻了。 例：That actress is no spring chicken, but she does a pretty good job of playing a twenty-year-old girl. 那位女演员已经不年轻了，不过她演20几岁的小姑娘还演得挺不错。 2. put years on 显老...

14-03-13 US Ambassador Gary Locke said on Wednesday that he will step down from his position early next year to rejoin his family. 美国驻华大使骆家辉周三表示，他将于明年年初卸任，回美国与家人团聚。 Step down from his position表示离开他的工作岗位，即离职，卸...

14-03-11 Hold the horses. 稍等一下/慢着。 Let us give you the proper send-off. 那就让我们为你隆重送别吧。 Go about your business. 回去干活吧。 I don't. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. 我可没有，我真想马上再来一次。 Yeah, well, she is a nut job, and I'm not g...

14-03-11 I've taken a night job, just to tide us over. 我打了份夜工，贴补家用。 It makes my skin crawl thinking about it. 这让我想起来就起鸡皮疙瘩/毛骨悚然。 Oh, you keep rubbing me up the wrong way, see what happens. 行，你就给我找不自在吧，看我怎么收拾你。...

14-02-26 The Company Sigman Byrd We believed in the company as permanent gravity, as sacrament（圣礼） , and got the job done. We were given the memo about getting it done. But then the company changed hands. Another, more profitable company hoisted up a sig...

14-02-25 Protirement is retiring or quitting an unattractive job to pursue work or hobbies more suited to one's personality. 提前退休指的是辞去已经没有吸引力的工作，转而追求更适合自己个性的事业或爱好。 More than 80% of 30-to 35-year-old professionals claim t...