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“调休假”用英语怎么说？
Jerry
跟同事
Paula
和
Will
打招呼，聊聊彼此周末都干了些什么。
Jerry: Hey, Paula. Hi,
Will. Did you have a good weekend?
Paula: Yeah... I checked out that new
3D movie. It's amazing what they can do with
technologies these
days!
Will: I went mountain biking with a
couple of friends. We worked up a good sweat and
had a good time.
How about you, Jerry?
J: Actually, I spent most
of the weekend looking at travel
brochures
。
Paula
周末去看了新出的三维电影，
3D
movie.
Will
跟几个朋友一起去骑山地车，山地车在英语里叫
mountain
bike
，在上面那段话里是做动词用，
Will went
mountain biking. Will
还说，他们出了一身汗，玩
得特别开心。
work up a sweat
是一
种习惯用法，指锻炼身体或从事体力活动很投入，可以是真的出了一身
汗，也可以形容特
别卖力。
Jerry
呢，一个周末大部分时间都在看旅游宣传材
料
travel brochures.
看来他
是要休假喽？
Paula
问：
P: Really? Are you going
somewhere?
J: Well,
starting on the 20th of this month, I'm taking a
fiveweek vacation
。
W: Five weeks!! No way!
P: Get out of here! How
did you swing that?
J:
Actually, the company owes me about four months'
worth of vacation time. I've been working here
since 2002 and haven't taken a vacation
yet. I've got oodles of comp time as
well
。
W: Sorry, what's comp time?
Jerry
要休五个星期的假，
Wil
l
和
Paula
都不敢相信，问
Jerry, How did you swing that? to swing it
是一种
口语里非正式的说法，意思是说服别人，达到自己的目的
。
Jerry
解释说，他从
2002<
/p>
年来这家公司工作，
就一直没休过假，
现
在公司欠他四个月的假期，
Jerry
说，
另外，
I've got oodles of comp time as
well. oodles
of
something
也是一种非正式的说法，相当于
a lot
of something
，
Jerry
说自己除了四个月的假期，还攒了
很多
comp time.
Will
是新毕业的大学生，不知道什么是
comp
time. Paula
解释说，
P: The
。
J: Yeah, but some
companies like ours don't really pay overtime...
they give you extra vacation hours
instead. If you add up all the vacation
time and comp hours I have, I have a lot of
time
。