_____________________ Last year, one of my friends applied for a better job at her office. I did not think she would get it. I thought she had a hundred to one shot at the job. Other people at her office thought her chances were a million to one. One reason was that she had been caught catching forty winks at the office. She slept at her desk for short periods during the day. But her supervisor appointed her to the new job at the eleventh hour -- at the very last minute. I guess her lucky number came up. 去年,我有个朋友在公司申请了办公室更好的工作,我认为她只有百分之一的机会(had a hundred to one shot)得到这份工作.其他人更认为希望微乎其微.原因之一是她在办公室里打盹儿(forty winks)被当场抓住.但是她的上司在最后关头(at the eleventh hour)委任了她这项新工作.我猜她是中彩了(lucky number came up). This VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus. 这就是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故,作者Jill Moss,我是Faith Lapidus.
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作者: herman_liu76 时间: 2014-11-15 15:06
nine times out of ten, students who do well in school find good jobs , some work in the office doing the same things every day at nine to five(朝九晚五？) jobs. you do not have to dressed to the nice?? or wear your best cloths for this kind of work.
