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天天商务词汇

diet (noun) 按规定饮食；节食

解释	the things one eats and drinks regularly

例句	Fred's heart attack must have been the result of poor diet. He ate nothing but fast food every day

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Fighting for the right to relax 为休息的权利而战

There are laws on the books in 127 countries mandating vacation time for workers. But not in the U.S., where a lot of folks find they just can't afford to escape the grind in a competitive market. Wren Elhai reports. TEXT OF STORY Lisa Napoli: One thing that might make people less in need of the hospital is more vacation time. But one in four American workers don't get any time off paid - and of course, people here work more any in other industrialized nations. Wren Elhai reports some are saying there oughta be a law. Wren Elhai: Vacations are in trouble. Polls say people are taking shorter trips and even when they are away, most are still checking in at work through e-mail or voicemail. Joe Robinson: What's happened in recent years is that work ethic has morphed into an overwork ethic. Joe Robinson is on the board of Take Back Your Time, a group campaigning for a federal law that would require businesses to give employees 15 days of paid vacation. Robinson: Without that protection these days in the volatile economy, people are afraid to go on a trip for fear that they might be replaced by the time they get home, or somebody might pass them while they're gone. A hundred and twenty-seven countries have vacation laws and workers in Europe get up to six weeks off. But businesses warn a U.S. vacation law would carry a huge cost for companies. And many say competition already does the trick - generous benefits attract better employees.