lay-off

常見例句

I was talking with a friend recently who took a voluntary lay-off to go to a new position at a start-up company.
最近我同一個朋友交談得知，他剛剛自愿被解雇然后準備到一家剛剛起步的公司就職一個新職位。
That's why it's important to be be prepared to change jobs, because a lay-off could happen to any of us, often without warning.
這就是為什么提前做好換工作的準備是重要的原因，因為我們每個人都可能在沒有警告的情況下被開除。
Psychiatrists call this "externalizing blame." It's a way to lay-off shame and self-loathing onto somebody (or something) else so you can feel better about yourself.
心理學(xué)家稱之為“外化指責”這是指將恥辱感和自我嫌惡加到某人或某種事物以便你自己感覺更好的一種方式。

On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.
在你和帕里斯發(fā)生關(guān)系后的第三千兩百八十七夜,那個日子是狡猾的潘達洛斯告訴我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸邊，揀傷口上的虱子,疲憊讓我閉上了眼睛。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

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