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第1427期:假如周三变成小周末,你愿意吗?

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一周7天,5天工作日2天周末,周六通常在筋疲力竭中休息,周日刚缓过神就要投身下一周繁忙工作。开个脑洞:如果,在紧张工作两天后,周三休息回血充电,正好做些购物就医等平时需请假办的事,四五六继续工作,周日再休息。繁忙的五天连轴工作压力被有效释放,张弛有度,不让工作变过劳,你觉得这个提议怎么样?

Dialogue :

WeekendWednesday

dialogue 1

Jingjing: Mark, I know we've talked a lot about ______. Whatdo you think about a ______?

Mark: ______. You'llhave to tell me ______.

Jingjing: That's when someone has Wednesday______, instead of_____.

Mark: So, theirweekend is just______?

Jingjing: _____, there's a______.

Mark: What'sthe _____? Someone still has the same _____ of days ______and the same number of _______.

Jingjing: You've worked______, haven't you? And didn't you notice _______ yougot _____ on Fridays?

Mark: _____.

Jingjing: Why not?

Mark: I hadan office job with______. Every day felt______.

Jingjing: Wasn't _____?

Mark: OnFriday, _____ would call, which gave me a chance to ______.

Jingjing: What about your Saturday? Did it feel like______?

Mark: Itdid. I didn't feel______, and usually______.

Jingjing: Don't you think people with______ need theirSaturdays_______.

Mark: Oh, soyou mean their two ______?

Jingjing: That's exactly what I mean. If someone had a day off beforethey______,______.

Mark: Whatif people at one office ______, ______, or ______?

Jingjing: Idon't think _____on Wednesday or Saturday.

Mark: Howcome?

Jingjing: People couldn't______, and would just _____ to a daywhen everyone's in.

Mark: Itmight be______. An ____ might have to move some work to____. Then again, it'd be a day with fewer _____ and meetings, aday for _____.

Jingjing: So, if you _____, you'd _____?

Mark: Iwould, and I'd let people _____. People with families might not ______when their _____ and kids have ______. It makes sense for young peopleand ______.


dialogue 2

Jingjing: Mark, _____ to weekend Wednesday?

Mark: Yeah,I used to work every day _____ at one job. I don't know_____ it earlier.

Jingjing: Was it _____ every week?

Mark: I gotwork calls______, because _____ as me.

Jingjing: Ibet it was ____ for you to______, see the doctor or go to ______.

Mark: Good point! All that stuff was ______, because places ______.

Jingjing: What about when you were a student? Did you _____ over theweek or ______?

Mark: ____ was_____ every semester. I_____,and still do as a teacher.

Jingjing: Yeah, if you can take a course______, you_____.

Mark: I'dusually _____ four days of classes per week. But itusually turned out to be_______.

Jingjing: Did you prefer to _____ every week?

Mark: Idon't think ____, because of_____. Two and a half days_____—that gave me the ______everything.

Jingjing: That makes me think that people who ____ arebetter_______.

Mark: It's alot easier to_____.

Jingjing: Hmm, I guess flex time is still _______for most folks _____.

Mark: Letpeople set some of their _____and______, rather than havingeveryone _______.


new wordsand phrases

Beats me.

downside

upside

I can't speak for.

vice versa

a net loss

empty nester

smooth sailing

a breeze

a crap shoot

shoot for

punch the clock


重点单词   查看全部解释    
flex [fleks]

想一想再看

v. 弯曲,伸缩,褶曲
n. 电线,松紧带

 
haven ['heivn]

想一想再看

n. 港口,避难所,安息所 v. 安置 ... 于港中,

联想记忆
punch [pʌntʃ]

想一想再看

n. 打洞器,钻孔机,殴打
n. (酒、水、糖

联想记忆

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