| 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 |
| 天天商务报道 |
| 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. |
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