Business Communication in Action 実践ビジネス英語
Hello, everybody.こんにちは。みなさん。
Hello and welcome to the show. This is Chris Matsushita. Let's take a look at conversation at work.
こんにちは。番組にようこそ。クリス松下です。実践的な会話を見てみましょう。
Hello, everybody.こんにちは。みなさん。
Hello and welcome to the show. This is Chris Matsushita. Let's take a look at conversation at work.
こんにちは。番組にようこそ。クリス松下です。実践的な会話を見てみましょう。
Climate Survey (3)
Breakstone says she feels that most people at Great Lakes are happy with the situation.
Pearson tends to agree but observes that only 45 % of the U.S. workers are happy
with their work.
Breakstone says it's a long term trend.
Hughes sites buddies who complain about the lack of teamwork at the workplaces.
Breakstone talks about the people who are against the survey is being anti[antai]-survey.
You can also say, anti[anti]-survey.
Breakstone talks about happy campus.
This phrase was first used I think around the middle late 80's, not to talk about campus per se,
but to talk about people who are satisfied or not satisfied with a situation they find themselves in.
It probably comes from kids in summer camp. Some of them like it, some of them don't.
Pearson begins by using the phrase "insofar as".
It sounds like you should spell that with four separate words.
But actually, "insofar" is spelled altogether as one word and there's a space
and then you write "as".
There's another phrase that sometimes I forget. It's "instead of".
I often try to spell "in stead" as two words.
I know it's one word. But when I'm thinking about my meaning, I tend to type it as two.
notwithstanding / menswear
Currently words that are written with a hyphen are often on their way to becoming
a single word with no hyphen and no space.
They don't always change. But it is kind of a trend.
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Hughes uses the phrase "what with" to bring the recession into the conversation.
It's a way you can say, "because of", for example.
It's introducing another element into the conversation.
what with = because of
Breakstone talks about the escalating cost of health insurance.
In the U.S. and it seems like in many developed countries, the cost of health insurance
has been going up.
In the U.S., many people get their health insurance coverage in conjunction with their jobs.
So one benefit of working for a good company is having part of your health insurance costs
paid by your company.
A lot of places are about half and half.
Although recently companies have been lowering their support and having the employees
pay more and more of their health insurance costs.
Breakstone also talks about how those costs are eating into take-home pay.
Eating into is another way to say eroding or making less or lowering.
And finally, take-home pay. Take-home pay is the money you have after all the reductions are cut.
So after the company subtracts the taxes you owe and any other cost you need to pay
so that would include your portion of health insurance payments.
But it can also include things like uniform costs if you wear a uniform.
The company does know it's paid the full price for those.
Or for example, the cafeteria costs.
That's all for today.では今日はここまでにしましょう。
So long for now.