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slack
معنی و توضیح
The phrase “to slack off,” in this podcast, means to play or be lazy when one should be working: “Oren doesn’t like working with Helen because she always slacks off and makes other people do all the work.” The word “slack” refers to something that is loose, or not tight: “The fishing line was still slack, so we knew that we hadn’t caught a fish yet.” Or, “The telephone cable is too slack and it’s almost touching the ground.” The word “slacks” means pants: “Should I wear these black slacks, or my gray ones?” The phrase “to cut (someone) some slack” means to not be so critical of someone: “Fiona always talks about the mistakes I make when playing piano. I’m doing the best I can, and I wish she would cut me some slack!”
پادکست مرتبط
اپیزود مرتبط با این کلمه: «Different Work Styles». دو دقیقه اول را همینجا گوش کن و متن همگام را دنبال کن. برای ادامه کامل، از دکمه پایین استفاده کن.
Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 312: Different Work Styles.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 312. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
If you go to our website at eslpod.com, you can download a Learning Guide to this episode to improve your English even more. The Learning Guide contains all the vocabulary, definitions, sample sentences, additional definitions of words we use on the podcast, cultural notes, and a complete transcript of everything we say on this episode. We also have some other new, exciting parts of the website, so take a look at that if you haven’t visited recently.
Our topic today is “Different Work Styles.” We’ll go over some vocabulary you can use to describe people’s work habits and the sorts of things that they do at work in terms of the way (or the style or manner) in which they work. Let’s get started.
Before I started my new job, I didn’t know that I would be working so closely with another employee of the company. I
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