| 如何用英语描述工作进展？ |
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老板问你项目进行得怎样时，该如何回答呢？以下是描述工作进度时常用的英语句式，大家快来围观学习啦！
1. Great! We're way ahead of schedule.
非常好！我们要提前完工了。
2. We're right on target.
我们正按计划进行。
3. Well, frankly, we're running a little behind.
坦白地说，我们有点落后了。
4. It’s 70% done.
已经完成70％了。
5. It'll be completed on time.
会按时完成的。
6. We're halfway there.
我们已经完成一半了。
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A: No one is getting all their work done during the work day. We need to do some brainstorming to come up with a time-management solution for our office.
最近没人能按时完成任务。我们要来一场头脑风暴，为我们的办公室时间管理问题想出一个解决方案。
B: Well, what do you suggest? It's not that we are all wasting a lot of time. The fact is, we're understaffed. People just have too much to do.
好吧，那么你的意见是？我们没有浪费时间。事实上，我们都超负荷工作了。要做的事情太多了。
A: So you think we should hire some new people? That is one possible solution. What else could be the problem?
那你觉得我们应该去招些新人进来吗？这是个可行的办法。要不然能怎样？
B: Maybe we do have some problems with time-management. If people were always on time to work, they might get more done in the morning before lunch.
也许是我们在时间管理上出了点问题。如果每个人都准时来上班的话，午饭前的时间可以完成更多的工作。
A: That's true. Also, perhaps we could shorten the lunch break from one hour to forty five minutes.
没错。也许我们可以把午餐时间从一个小时缩减到45分钟。
B: Hmm, adding fifteen minutes to the workday could be good, but I wonder if it would actually make a big impact on the employees' output. I still think there is too much work.
恩，每天增加15分钟的工作时间不错。但不知道这个办法能否有效增加大家的工作产出。我还是觉得工作量太大。
A: We ended up right where we started. Maybe it is time to look for some temp workers to help with a few projects. That would lighten everyone's load.
又回到最初的问题上来了。也许是时候去找一些短期工来帮我们做一些项目了。这样可以减轻每个人的工作负担。
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【Hi-English特别关注】周五社交媒体用户更活跃 |
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Rebecca Black's not the only one who thinks there's something special about Friday. Two separate pieces of research out this week show that the end of the work week is the best time to get traction on status updates （n.更新）and tweets（n.推特）.
Rebecca Black(译者注：唱Friday的那个妞，YouTube上很火的)不是唯一一个认为星期五很特别的人。本周两组独立的研究显示，伴随着工作日的结束，更新淫淫状态、织围脖的黄金时间也到了。
Analyzing more than 200 of its clients' Facebook pages over a 14-day period, Buddy Media found that engagement （n.参与度）on Fridays was 18% higher than the rest of the week. Meanwhile, Twitter Chief Revenue Officer Adam Bain — speaking at the Ad Age Digital conference earlier this week — said that Twitter users are more engaged （忙于）with tweets on Fridays.
经过对200名以上的客户的Facebook页面进行为期14天的分析，Buddy Media发现，社交媒体用户在周五比一周其他时间活跃18%。与此同时，Twitter CFO（首席财务官） Adam Bain本周早些时候也在Ad Age Digital conference（广告时代数字大会）上说，周五Twitter用户更活跃。
The reason is fairly obvious, says Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at the Altimeter Group: "People are heading into the weekend so they're thinking about things besides work. They're mentally checking out and transitioning (过渡) to the weekend."
原因非常明显，Altimeter Group的合伙人 Jeremiah Owyang 说：“大家都准备过周末，都想着工作之外的事。精神上他们都下班了”。
Rick Liebling, director of digital strategy at Coyne PR, concurs (v.同意；赞成): "It's a matter of people finally pushing past the work week and coasting toward the weekend, picking their head up a bit to see what's going on and what their friends are up to."
Coyne PR的数字（媒体）战略总监Rick Liebling表示同意：“因为工作周终于结束，周末马上就要到来，大家都想从工作中分神看看朋友们都在做什么。”
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