【職場裏容易誤會的五句話】 5個超實用英語表達

 

 

1. Dirty work - 大家都不願意的工作，吃力不討好的苦差事，沒回報又不光鮮的工作。

Stop filing and get one of the interns to do that dirty work

 

2. Busywork – 耗時間又無成效的瑣碎事情 work that keeps a person busy but has little or no actual value in itself.

We have to put in an eight-hour day, even if we do nothing but busy-work.

我們每天都得工作八小時，盡管除了那些無謂的瑣碎雜事外啥也不做。

3. talk shop – （informal） talk about business out of business hour, discuss work when not at work, especially in a way that other people find boring（在工作時間外）談論自己的工作；搞得旁邊的人很煩

 

4. hold (keep)  one’s end up/ hold up one’s end – perform your part adequately; 負起你那份責任, 做好你分內的事

The work is demanding, but he's able to hold his end up.