2012级研究生英语课文句子复习.docVIP

Important sentences ? Unit 1 Etiquette at an office party?Why, there people have been socializing happily every working day of their lives, give or take a few melees, rumors, and complaint petitions.All it takes to turn this into holiday merriment is a bit of greenery looped around the office---the staff will soon be looped, too. 办公室晚会礼节？有这个必要吗？员工们每天开开心心地彼此交往，虽然时不时会推推撞撞，发生点儿口角，传播点儿谣言，或是联名写点儿投诉信。然而，只要将办公室稍做节日般的布置，所有这一切的不愉快即刻会化为其乐融融的喜庆气氛。员工们也很快会陶醉于其中，乐而忘忧。 This is all pure hospitality---there for the taking, like the office-supplied felt-tipped pens everyone has been pocketing all year. Out of the natural goodness of its corporate heart and the spirit of the holiday season, the company wishes only to give its employees a roaring good time, and the employees, out of loyalty and the thrill of getting to know their bosses off-duty as equals, delight in the opportunity. 所有的一切均为盛情款待，就象是平日里一直偷偷顺手牵羊放入口袋里的公司毡毛笔尖钢笔，任由大家尽情享受。基于公司的企业精神和节日欢庆的气氛，公司此时只希望为员工提供一次尽情狂欢的聚会。而员工出于对公司的忠心，再加上发现上司在工余之际的面目后欣喜无比，所以也就乐不可支地享受这一美好时光。 For those still dimly aware of the once-standard give-and-take of real social life, this no-fault approach to business entertaining seems a godsend. 对那些仍然隐约记得生活中付出与获得之理的人而言，这种无忧无虑的商业娱乐简直就像是神赐的福祉。 The people who do the planning are paid for their trouble,so those who benefit need not consider they have incurred a debt. Why, the annual Christmas party ought to be an inspiration to lower-level employees to work their way into realms where company-sponsored partying can be enjoyed all year long. 组织晚会的人有偿付出，因此，参加晚会的来宾不必担心愧欠人情。一年一次的圣诞节本来就应该让低级别的员工感到一种理想氛围，那就是公司出钱筹办的晚会全年均可免费出席。 Not so fast. Flinty Miss Manners does not recognize any holidays from etiquette. 先别想得太美了。严肃的礼节小姐可是从来不休假的。 It might discourage hospitable bosses to see guests staring at them in horror and then slithering in by a side door.But etiquettes solution of having everyone greeted in a receiving line was rejected as too stiff.So one can hardly blame employees for recalling a long-ingrained pri