VIP Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

loan (v):sth (to sb) | 借出，贷与（尤指钱）
to lend sth to sb, especially money
E.g.: The bank is happy to loan money to small businesses.
银行乐于贷款给小型企业。
E.g.: A friend loaned me $1 000.
有一位朋友借给我1 000元。

labor market (n): the supply of people in a particular country or area who are able and willing to work
劳动力市场
E.g.: More women are being encouraged into the labour market these days.
当今鼓励更多的女性进入劳动力市场。

finding a new job is very much harder than before

It’s very hard to find a job nowadays

cut (v) (REDUCE)to make something shorter, lower, smaller, etc.
减少；缩短；降低；削减
E.g.: to cut prices/costs
降低价格／成本
E.g.: to cut overtime/wages
缩短加班时间／降低工资

naive (adj): too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people’s intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair. People are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience of life
轻信的；天真的；幼稚的
E.g.: She was very naive to believe that he’d stay with her.
她居然天真地相信他会和她在一起。
E.g.: It was a little naive of you to think that they would listen to your suggestions.
以为他们会听从你的建议，你真有点儿天真。

workload (n): the amount of work to be done, especially by a particular person or machine in a period of time
工作量，工作负荷
E.g.: Teachers are always complaining about their heavy workloads.
教师们总是抱怨工作繁重。
E.g.: Students do find that their workload increases throughout the course.
学生们确实发现随着课程的推进他们的作业量越来越大。

financial/fiscal year (n): a period of twelve months (not always January to December) for which a business, government, etc. plans its management of money
财政年度，会计年度（并非总是1月到12月）

headhunter (n) (JOB)a person who tries to persuade someone to leave their job by offering that person another job with more pay and a higher position
猎头，物色人才的人
E.g.: The headhunter’s job is to identify these candidates and get them interested in working for the client company.
猎头公司的工作就是对这些候选人进行评估，并让他们对为客户公司工作产生兴趣。

adjacent (adj): very near, next to, or touching
邻近的；毗连的
E.g.: They work in adjacent buildings.
他们在相邻的两座楼里工作。
E.g.: They lived in a house adjacent to the railway.
他们家住在铁路旁边。