商务英语口语对话:罢工和示威游行

商务英语口语对话:罢工和示威游行  

A:Do you have the day off today?How e 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 pany 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 beeen the union and the executive group
the first thing they do is to call a strike. Usually it only lasts a day or o before both sides can e to an agreement and we start work again. Anyhow
it's a nice
unanticipated holiday...



Stage: to anize and take part in action that needs careful planning
especially as a public protest 组织;筹划
to stage a strike/demonstration/march/protest
strike: a period of time when an anized group of employees of a pany stops working because of a disagreement over pay or conditions 罢工;罢课;罢市
the train drivers' strike
火车司机罢工
a strike by teachers
教师举行的罢课
a general/unofficial/one-day strike
总╱未得到批准的╱为期一天的罢工
Air traffic controllers are threatening to e out on/go on strike.
空中交通管制员威胁要举行罢工.
Half the workforce are now(out) on strike.
现在有半数职工罢工.
The train drivers have voted to take strike action.
火车司机投票表决采取罢工行动.
The student union has called for a rent strike(= a refusal to pay rent as a protest).
学生会呼吁拒缴房租.
Nuts: crazy 疯狂
My friends think I'm nuts for saying yes.
朋友们认为我说行是疯了.
That phone ringing all the time is driving me nuts!
那电话铃一直响个不停
吵得我快要发疯了.