Organizing a Holiday Roster 安排值班
Key sentence 重点句子
I’ve been asked to draw up the holiday roster this year and ,as far as possible ,I’d like to please everybody.
上司要求我安排今年的休假日程表,并且要求尽可能让每个人都满意
I’d like to spend my three-week holidays either in May or October so tbat I can get a cheep holiday.
我想在五月或十月份度过这三周假期,这样可以少花钱
Why can’t we go when we want ?
为什么我们不能想何时走就何时走呢?
Someone has to keep the firm going and there must be someone on duty who is capable of standing in for the person who is away.
公司需要继续运作,就必须要有人顶替休假者的工作
You’d better give me two alternatives just in case.
你最好给我两个选择的时间余地,以防万一
Dialogue
对话
B:Miss Jane ,what are you busy doing ?
嗨,简,你在忙什么呢?
A: I’ve been asked to draw up the holiday roster this year and ,as far as possible , I’d like to please everybody. What about you? Where are you going for your holidays this year ?
上司要求我安排出今年的休假日程表,并且要求尽可能让每个人都满意,你呢?你打算今年到哪儿去休假?
B:I’m thinking of going to my brother’s He lives by the see ,a summer Mecca.
我准备去我兄弟那儿去休假,他住在海边,那是一个度假胜地.
A:How nicel Then,give me a couple of dates, I can’t promise anything ,but I’ll do my best.
太棒了,告诉我一下你的休假日期吧,我不能保证什么,但我会尽力.
B:Let me see, I ‘d like to spend my three-week holidays either in May or October so that I can get a cheap holiday.
让我想想,我想在五月或十月份度过这三周假期,这样可以少花钱
A: I wish everybody was like you . But lots of people want to go away in July or August.
我希望每个人都像你这样,但是大多数喜欢7月或8月出游
B:Why can’t we go when we want ?
为什么我们不能想何时走就何时走呢?
A:You know ,someone has to keep the firm going and there must be someone on duty who is capable of standing in for the person who is away.
你知道,公司需要继续运作,就必须要有人顶替休假者的工作
B:I suppose it helps if we’re all trained to do more than one job.
我想如果我们都学会做不止一项工作事情就好办多了
A:Of course ,it does.
那当然了
B:Will I clash with Mary if I go off at the beginning of July ?
如果我七月初离开,会和玛丽发生冲突吗?
A:You probably will , You’d better give me two altermatives just in case.
可能会的,你最好给我两个选择的余地,以防万一.
B:Can you put me down for either the end of August or the beginning of October?
你能把我放在8月底或者10月初吗
A:OK
好的
