Topic 1 Neologism-高中英语读本选择性必修第一册

23 It was a tough decision to back. Bil􀆳s father, Mr.Gates Sr., drawing from his own experience as a lawyer guiding smal companies, helped Bil find Seattle business people to serve on the Microsoft board. In 1980, Bil Gates brought his father along to dinner to help persuade colege friend Steve Balmer—now Microsoft􀆳s chief executive—to quit graduate school and join Microsoft. After the windfal, Ms.Gates pressed her son to get into philanthropy. At his father􀆳s law office late one night, someone present recals, Bil quarreled with his mother as she urged him to give money away. “I􀆳m just trying to run my company!” he snapped, says the person in the office at the time. Mr.Gates says that at the time he wasn􀆳t opposed to philanthropic work, he just didn􀆳t want to be distracted from his duties at Microsoft. furlough 无薪休假 疫情期间的自我隔离,确实给很多人放了一个大长假,让很多人远离了熬 夜加班,远离了脱发失眠,同时也远离了工资。很多公司为了节省开支,于是 解雇了大量的员工,使员工被迫无薪休假。因为疫情蔓延,国外裁员和员工 “无薪休假”的现象非常严重。所以,“无薪休假”这个词是频频见诸报端。 furlough源自荷兰语verlof,意思是“许可”。最初是指给予政府或军事 人员的休假,也适用于允许囚犯在规定时间里暂时离开监狱。但一般来说,现 在最常见的是指非自愿的无薪休假。柯林斯词典中对这个词的解释是: leave of absence, especialy from military duty or a temporary laying-off of employees, usualy because there is insufficient work to occupy them 狭义而言,泛指在职业场所中,因工作业务或企业获利缩减,而导致劳方 必须进行缩减工时,与资方不支付劳方休假期间工资的休假行为。 24 诺贝尔经济学奖得主克里斯多福·皮萨里德斯指出,如果无薪休假的实 施经由充分沟通、且仍有给予员工足够生活的薪资,并强制企业预先及事后给 付暂时下岗期间的员工津贴,可以是“员工和企业双赢”的一项制度。 应用场景: During the recession, Honeywel used furloughs, rather than layoffs, to lower payrol costs. But it limited the scale and duration of the furloughs by first implementing a hiring freeze, eliminating wage increases, reducing overti