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Lesson 15 Good news 佳音

The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me. I felt very nervous when I went into his office. He did not look up from his desk when I entered. After I had sat down, he said that business was very bad. He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries. Twenty people had already left. I knew that my turn had come. 'Mr. Harmsworth,' I said in a weak voice. 'Don't interrupt,' he said. Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra thousand pounds a year!

• secretary 公司秘书, 国家部长, 机构的文书职干事
• look up from n (book/desk/computer) 视线从n离开
  • sth look up 好转
  • sb look up sth(a fact or a piece of information) 查验
• afford to do sth/afford to sth (时间,金钱,精力上)负担得起
• such + noun phrase 用于名词词组前强调某事的 程度
  • such large salaries
  • such simple english
• in a weak voice: If you describe someone's voice or smile as weak, you mean that it is not very loud or big, suggesting that the person lacks confidence, enthusiasm, or physical strength. 不大声, 暗示了缺乏信心, 热情或力量.
• interrupt: If you interrupt someone who is speaking, you say or do something that causes them to stop. 做某事或说话打断说话的人
• extra: You use extra to describe an amount, person, or thing that is added to others of the same kind, or that can be added to others of the same kind. 额外增加相同的东西
  • extra bonus

From Harmsworth's View:

The business dropped dramatically this year. And I had fired twenty employers since the firm were not able to afford such 'great expense'[=> a large sum :170130] of salaries. Mr. Woff was a responsible and skilful worker who devoted his precious ten-year time to the development of 'this'[=> the :170130] firm. So I decided to promote him to senior manager and increase his wage. That was a good news ''[=> so] I wanted to tell him 'by myself'[=> in person :170130]. I asked secretary to call him into my office. He looked nervous until I smiled and told him that he would [get promoted and] get an extra thousand pounds each year.

Knowledges

• dramatically 很大地, 很明显地
• fire 解雇, 开除. If an employer fires you, they dismiss you from your job.
  • synonym: can(俚语), dismiss, terminate
  • antonyms: hire, employ, engage
• devote energy/time to sth/doing sth
• be promoted (from A) to B. 一般用于被动. 他的同义词 advance, elevate, raise, upgrade 基本如此
  • 本句改成: I decided to let him be my senior manager 会更地道些么?
• wage 和 salary 的区别: wage主要是对体力劳动的报酬，salary则主要是对脑力劳动的报酬.
• call (in): 召来，叫来

  The government then called in troops to deal with the disturbances.政府于是调来军队对付骚乱。

  At school she was always being called into the headteacher's office.在学校时，她总是被叫到校长办公室去。

170130

• 亲自地 in person 而非 by myself(单独地)

From Sacretary's View:

Mr. Woff was the twenty first worker who was been call[=> called :170130] into the "boss's"[=> boss' :170130] office. The twenty workers before him were been fired. I thought his destiny might be the same as them[,] for the bussiness of our firm this year was terrible bad. It seemed that we could not afford to pay such huge salaries. Ten minutes later, Mr. Woff came off[=> out] with smiles. he told me that, to my surprise, he got a raise.

• The twenty workers before him 好像可以改成 the previous twenty workers
• come out (of the house/office). off 是下来的意思

Knowledges

• afford to do sth/afford to sth (时间,金钱,精力上)负担得起

Few people are able to afford cars like that.很少人买得起那样的车。

She couldn't afford the time off work to see him.她工作太忙，抽不出时间去看他。

• look up from n (book/desk/computer) 视线从n离开
  • sth look up 好转

  Things could be looking up in the computer industry. 计算机行业的情况可能会好转。
  - sb look up sth(a fact or a piece of information) 查验
  > Many people have to look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary. 这个词的意思很多人都要查字典才知道。

Remembers

170130

• such + noun phrase 用于名词词组前强调某事的 程度
  • such large salaries
  • such simple english
• fire 解雇, 开除. If an employer fires you, they dismiss you from your job.
  • synonym: can(俚语), dismiss, terminate
  • antonyms: hire, employ, engage

(作文时间: 2016年12月28日, 耗时: 100分钟)

30天后修改意见

修正了一些表达错误, 很明显的感受是一看就知道错了. 说明1.5个月的写写写还是有用的.

(修改时间: 2017-01-30, 耗时: 15 分钟)