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I've just put in an application for a
better paid and higher status job.
我最近申請了一份薪水、級別都較高的工作。
| 對話 Eddie:I'm really fed up with my present job. 埃迪:我厭倦了目前的工作。 Samantha:Really? What's the matter with it? 薩曼莎:是嗎？你的工作有甚麼不好？ Eddie:It's so boring, the pay's miserable and there's no appreciation. 埃迪:工作性質沉悶，薪水微薄，而且沒有人欣賞。 Samantha:I'm sorry to hear that. What are you going to do about it. 薩曼莎:那真遺憾。那你會怎麼辦。 Eddie:I've already done something. I've just put in an application for a better paid and higher status job in the company where my brother works. 埃迪:我已經開始行動，最近向我弟任職的公司申請一份薪水、級別都較高的工作。 Samantha:Well I hope you get an interview. I'm sure you will. 薩曼莎:我希望也相信你有機會面試。 |
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厭倦工作，另謀高就 埃迪不滿現時的工作，說I'm really fed up with my present job。 To feed up是「使吃飽」，特別是吃有營養的食物，例如：We fed him up as well as we could during his convalescence（他康復期間，我們盡量給他吃得好好的）。人吃飽了就不想再吃，所以to feed up也可解作「使厭煩」，例如：She feeds me up with her incessant complaints/I am fed up with her incessant complaints（她不斷抱怨，使我深感厭煩）。留意解作「厭煩」的feed up多用被動語態(passive voice)，因此，解作「使吃飽」的feed up多用主動語態(active voice)，以免誤會。 To be fed up的加強語氣說法，是to be fed (up) to the gills/to be fed (up) to the (back) teeth，直譯是「食物填滿肚子，直到雙腮/直到臼齒」。例如：(1) I'm really fed to the back teeth with my present job。(2) There was so much work that I got fed up to the gills and quit my job（由於工作繁多，我再也無法忍受，就辭職了）。Gill本是指魚的鰓，俗語引申來說人的腮，多用複數形式。 一般人辭職前已開始申請工作。「提出申請」英文是to put in/submit/make an application，例如：(1) I have put in an application to work in my girlfriend's company（我向女朋友任職的公司申請工作）。(2) Are you going to make an application for employment as（或for the post of）dental hygienist?（你會不會申請牙齒保健員的職位？） |