[词汇]（6）

employee                 n. 雇员

hard-working             adj. 勤奋的

sales reps               推销员=sales representatives

man                      n. 男人

office                   n. 办公室

assistant                n. 助手

★employee   n. 雇员

一个动词后有 -ee，是被这个动作影响的人；一个动词后有 -er，是做出这个动作的人。

V+-ee  被……的人            

V+er   发出……的人

employ  v. 雇拥

I need to employ some people to help me do this work.

employee  n. 雇员

employer  n. 雇主

employment  n. 工作

-ment 名词后缀

train   v. 训练

trainee  n. 被训练的人

trainer  n. 训练者

★hard-working   adj. 勤奋的

hard  adj&adv. 艰苦的，坚硬的，努力地

work  n&v.  工作

hard-working   adj. 勤奋的

Lucy is a hard-working employee.

They are hard-working.

hard-work   n. 艰苦的工作

This is a hard-work.

work hard 努力地工作

★assistant  n. 助手

office assistant  指办公室干杂务的工作人员

assist   v. 援助

[课文]

MR. JACKSON:   Come and meet our employees, Mr. Richards.

MR. RICHARDS:  Thank you, Mr. Jackson.

MR. JACKSON:    This is Nicola Grey, and this is Claire Taylor.

MR. RICHARDS:  How do you do?

                            Those women are very hard-working.

                  What are their jobs?

MR. JACKSON:    They're keyboard operators.

                            This is Michael Baker, and this is Jeremy Short.

MR. RICHARDS:  How do you do?

                            They aren't very busy!

                  What are their jobs?

MR. JACKSON:    They're sales reps.

                  They're very lazy.

MR. RICHARDS:  Who is this young man?

MR. JACKSON:    This is Jim.He's our office assistant.