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B: After breakfast I read the papers.
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B: Oh, The Guardian and The Independent.
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B: I usually leave for the office about eight and I’m behind my desk by eight-thirty.
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B: I sort through the mail first.
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B: No, I don’t have a secretary. I wish I had!
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B: No, I sometimes travel abroad.
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B: Oh, about four times a year. Usually to America.
B. Change the following sentences using an expression of indefinite frequency as indicated by the number in brackets.
1. I travel abroad. (40%) __________________________________
2. I have meetings. (75%) _________________________________
3. I see the Managing Director. (50%) ________________________
4. I see the Chairman. (10%) ________________________________
5. I catch the seven o’clock bus. (100%) _______________________
课文注释及词汇讲解：
* go for jog （去）跑步[多指慢跑]，也可以说成go jogging
go for a walk （去）散步
* take 订阅
eg. Which papers do you take?
你订阅哪些报纸？
* paper 报纸，为可数名词。复数形式可表示多份报纸，也可表示各种各样的报纸。
本课提到的报纸有：
The Financial Times《金融时报》
The Times《泰晤士报》
The Independent《独立报》
The Guardian《卫报》
* read from cover to cover 从第一页看到最后一页
cover 封面或封底
eg. Please read the catalogue from cover to cover before you decide which model to purchase.
请先将商品目录通读一遍，再决定买哪个型号。
* leave…for…离开……去……[介词for 在此表示目的地]
eg. After the papers, I leave for the office.
看完报纸，我离家去上班。
The plane will leave Paris for New York at 10 a.m.
飞机将于上午10点钟从巴黎飞往纽约。
* be behind one’s desk = start to work （开始）办公
* sort out 整理（信件），处理（问题），落实（细节），将……分类
eg. My secretary sorts out my mail every morning.
我的秘书每天早上整理我的邮件。
I’ll leave Miss Smith to sort out the details.
我要让史密斯小姐来落实细节。
At the customs the goods are sorted out according to their value.
在海关，这种货物按价值分类。
* attention 注意，关心，处理
eg. These letters need immediate attention.
这些信件需要马上处理。
He called/invited our attention to the problem of inflation.
他让我们注意通货膨胀问题。
* deputy 副职，代理
eg. deputy-chairman 副总裁，代理总裁
* run through 浏览，过目
eg. They ran through the agenda at the beginning of the meeting.
他们在会议开始时先浏览了一下议程安排。
* typical 典型的，有代表性的
eg. He is a typical American businessman-very aggressive.
他是个典型的美国商人，咄咄逼人。
* up-to-date 最新的，跟随得上形势的，时髦的[相当于up-dated]
eg. We have to keep ourselves up-to-date with market conditions.
我们必须掌握最新的市场情况。
* Board meeting 董事会的会议
Board of Directors 董事会，可简称为the Board
eg. The MD has to report to the Board regularly.
总裁要定期向董事会汇报工作。
* more often than not = often 经常
* engagement 约会，预约
eg. make an engagement定约会[注意：engagement 与动词make搭配]
More often than not, there’s a dinner engagement.
经常会有晚餐约会。
Miss Smith, please make an engagement for me with the bank manager.
史密斯小姐，请替我安排一下与银行经理的约会。
* canteen （单位的）食堂，餐厅
* go off （闹钟）响
eg. My alarm clock goes off at 6:00every morning.
我的闹钟每天早上6:00响。
* straight away 立刻，马上
* I wish I had (a secretary)!
我真希望自己有个秘书！
这句话为虚拟语气，表示一种愿望。Wish后面的从句要求谓语动词用过去时形式[对现在情况的愿望]或过去完成时形式[对过去情况的愿望]。
eg. I wish we hadn’t signed that contract.
真希望没签那个合同。
* a dinner engagement 正餐约会
* hardly 几乎不
eg. We can hardly meet the deadline.
我们几乎不能如期完成。
Unit 9
听力译文：
PJ：我通常5点钟起床，早餐之前要跑步。我们通常6:30吃早饭。然后我会有时间看一下报纸。
J：您订了哪些报纸？
PJ：嗯，有《金融时报》、《泰晤士报》和《独立报》。我并非一页不漏地从头翻到尾看。
J：当然不会。
塞克斯有个每日例会。我们一起浏览一遍当天的日程安排。PJ：看完报，我就离家去上班。我通常在7:30开始办公。每天的第一件工作是处理邮件。我的秘书将需要马上处理的信件整理出来。然后，在大约9点钟我与助手彼提
J：您的一天通常是怎么过的？
PJ：嗯，没有什么“通常”，但我每天上午都有要和财务主管、销售主管开例会。当然，我常到国外出差，那时我就通过电话了解公司的最新情况
