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2009年3月25日星期三

[澎湖民宿。夏天來了民宿] Complaints and Compliments

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	本週課文介紹	Complaints and Compliments Finding Joy A Chance for Lessons in Economics
	英語達人	英語達人
	Vocabulary Focus	overwhelming, dwell on, get a kick out of...
	活動快遞	促銷商品

Complaints and Compliments

BUSINESS / 2009 March 30, 31

Do you get enough appreciation at work?

抱怨和讚美

你在工作中是否獲得足夠的讚賞認可呢？

Your frustrations feed a lot of families. In America alone, there are about 2.7 million call-center employees who are standing by ready to soothe you. But what if you've got joy in your heart? Why do companies make it so hard for us to say thank you? Pick any non-customer-service employee at random from your company…

Finding Joy

PSYCHOLOGY / 2009 April 1, 2 Need more joy in your life? Find out how to get it 活出喜悅想在生命中擁有更多喜悅？不妨學學找回喜悅的祕訣…

A Chance for Lessons in Economics

PARENTING / 2009 April 3, 4 Talking to your kids about financial woes 趁不景氣來為孩子上堂經濟學和孩子談論經濟不景氣...

英語達人

Q1: lauded (adj) a) laughing b) peaceful c) exaggerated d) praised Q2: preliminary (adj) a) best b) expensive c) early d) useful 解答請至《活動快遞》

overwhelming, dwell on, get a kick out of...

overwhelming (adj) very great or strong; difficult to fight against 壓倒性的；莫大的 The overwhelming smell of the stinky tofu made Jake leave the table. dwell on (phr v) to think or talk about a particular subject for too long, especially one that is unpleasant or not important any more 老是想著；細思 Albert tries not to dwell on negative things in the past because he can't change them now. get a kick out of (idiom) to enjoy doing something very much 得到極大樂趣 Peter gets a kick out of watching his favorite baseball team win. distraught (adj) extremely worried, anxious or upset 極度煩惱的；心煩意亂的 Mary is very distraught because she has a difficult exam tomorrow. wrapped up in (phr v) to be completely preoccupied by or intensely involved in something 專注於…;完全投入於… Tom was so wrapped up in his work that he didn't have time to eat dinner with his family.