BEC商务英语活学活用：办公室午餐时间成文与不成文的规定
Michael: The boss has an errand for you.
迈克尔：老板给你安排了个活儿。
Billy: What is my task, sir?
比利：什么活儿啊?
Michael: Scope out the city's shopping malls and find out the best deals.
迈克尔：找出城里的大型购物商场，看看在哪家买最划算。
Billy: The best deals on what sort of items?
比利：买什么东西呀?
Michael: Office supplies, of course.
迈克尔：当然是办公用品了。
Billy: I'm leaving now.
比利：那我走了。
Michael: Hold your horses. Don't leave without finishing your report first.
迈克尔：慢着，别忘了先把你的报告写完再走。
Billy: Fine, I'll finish, then go shopping!
比利：没问题。写完了我就去逛商场!
Ⅱ.单词简析
1) Hold your horses : relax, wait a moment
等一会儿, 别着急
ex:Hold you horses, miss, you can't go into the shopping center until 9AM.
小姐，请等一会儿，上午九点商场才开门。
2) Mall : an indoor multi-level shopping center
购物中心
ex:Kid who goes to the mall too much are called mall rats.
老去购物中心里瞎逛的小孩叫做“商场老鼠”。
3)Office supplies : items used in the workplace, pens, paper...
办公用品
ex:I am off to the mall to buy some office supplies, do you want to come?
我要去购物中心里买点儿办公用品，你跟不跟我去?
4)Run errands : do tasks, finish a small project, go out and do something
跑腿，办点儿事
ex:I have to run a few errands at the post office, do you want to come along?
我必须得去趟邮局办点儿事，你想不想一起去?
Ⅲ.课文篇
Spoken and Unspoken Rules of Lunchtime at the Office
办公室午餐时间成文与不成文的规定
1) You will usually only get 1/2 an hour.
2) Ask others if they want to share before you order a pizza.
3) Try buying a fun and colorful lunchbox, one that others will admire. I have a Star Wars lunchbox, and my coworkers are all jealous!
4) If you eat at your desk, clean up the food very carefully. No one like bugs at their station.
5) If you are going out to pick up fast food, ask if you can get any for your friends.
1) 一般你只有半个小时。
2) 在订比萨饼之前，问问其他人是不是也想要。
3) 买一个有趣的颜色鲜艳的别人都喜欢的午餐饭盒。我有一个星球大战的饭盒，我的同事都羡慕极了!
4) 如果你在桌子上吃午饭，吃完后要打扫干净。没有人喜欢他们的工作座位有小虫子。
5) 如果你出去吃快餐，问问你的朋友，你能不能给他们带一点什么。
Ⅳ.对话篇
Gordon: Molly, I am going to KFC for lunch, would you like me to bring your back anything?
戈登：莫莉，我要到肯德基吃午饭，你要我给你带回点什么吗?
Molly : No thanks, that won't be necessary, I brought a lunch.
莫莉：不用了，谢谢。我带午饭了。
Gordon: You always bring a lunchbox, why?
戈登：你为什么总是自己带午饭呢?
Beth: No, the other team beat us by a long way.
贝丝：没有。另外的那个队赢了我们一大截呢!
Molly : Don't tell anyone, but I am on a diet. Fast food will make you fat.
莫莉：别告诉别人，我正在减肥。快餐会使人发胖。
Gordon: We could get someone to deliver pizza?
戈登：我们可以叫人送点比萨饼来。
Molly : Pizza is still fatty fast food.
莫莉：比萨饼也是容易使人发胖的快餐。
Gordon: But during the coffee break I saw you eating the cake that the boss gave you.
戈登：但是，在工间休息的时候，我看见你吃了一块老板给你的蛋糕。
Molly : If the boss brings a cake, you eat it!
莫莉：如果是老板给的蛋糕，你就得吃。
Gordon: I guess that is why the boss likes you more.
戈登：我想这就是老板为什么更喜欢你的原因。
Molly : You had better hurry to your fast food joint, you only have a half-hour.
莫莉：你最好快点到你的快餐店去，你只有半个小时。
Gordon: See you soon.
戈登：一会儿见。
