英语释义

1. a period of inactivity or idleness

2. the act of laying off an employee or a workforce also shutdown

3. to mark or measure off

4. to cease to employ (a worker) often temporarily

5. to place all or part of (an accepted bet) with another bookie to reduce the risk

6. to leave undisturbed

7. avoid, quit
was advised to lay off smoking and alcohol

8. to refrain from swinging at (a pitch)

9. to stop doing or taking something

10. to leave one alone
wish you'd just lay off

11. the act of ending the employment of a worker or group of workers

12. a period of time during which there is no activity

英汉例句

• the group begun shrinking in 2009 when berkeley laid off several staff, he said.

  这个团队从2009年起就开始了缩编，那时也解雇了几名员工。

• older workers are sometimes laid off because they have racked up annual pay-rises for decades, their health coverage is expensive and their employers cannot therefore afford to keep them.

  年老的劳动者有时被解雇，因为他们的工资每年提升且已经积累多年，他们的健康保险项目十分昂贵；他们的雇主无法承担这些。

• i was laid off in 1992 and ended up getting a job designing db2 applications.

  我于1992 年被解雇，从那时开始从事一份设计db2应用程序的工作。

• some workers said they were laid off on wednesday.

  部分员工说他们已经在本周三被解雇。

• do what you know: have you been laid off or want a change?

  做自己会的事：你是否下岗过或想要跳槽？

• in other instances, those who lost jobs may have been good workers but were laid off from occupations or industries that are in permanent decline, like manufacturing.

  在其他的一些例子中，失业者本身是很称职的，但是由于他们所处的行业持续走下坡路，如制造业，从而从原来的职位上或行业里被解雇。

• 「we need to come down to a more equal level of people, 」 said melba northern, 62, of red bluff, california, who was laid off from her job as a nursing assistant.

  「我们需要继续减少奖励额，保持民众的平均水平」加州雷德布拉夫，62岁的梅尔巴·诺森这样说，她刚从自己护理助理的职位上被解雇。

• in this scenario they [are] laid off at the drop of a hat.

  在这种情况下，解雇他们就像是被扔掉一顶帽子一样随便”。

• as if to address today’s inevitable question of 「jobs, 」 prof. prescott said that the laid off workers went to the twin cities and quickly found higher-paying employment.

  至于像如今的「工作」这样不可避免的话题，普雷斯科特教授说，被解雇的工人去了双子城，并很快在那里找到了薪水更高的工作。

• joblessness is growing fastest among under-25s, many of whom are being laid off as firms cut those on short-term contracts.

  现在，失业率增加最快的是25岁以下青年，公司不断剪裁短期员工，他们中不少都面临解雇。

• what i’m saying is that it’s more likely that you’ll be laid off in the next 50 years of employment than me never reaching my goal after lots of failures.

  我想要说的是与经历了许多失败之后我还从未达成自己的目标相比，你在未来的50年里更有可能被解雇。

• federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a usa today analysis finds.

  《今日美国》的一项调查发现，联邦雇员的工作保障率如此之高，以至于在许多机构，员工被解雇的几率比自然死亡的几率还低。

• nicholson must now appear before a british employment tribunal with his former employers and prove that he was laid off because of his environmental beliefs, not corporate restructuring.

  尼科尔森现在必须和他的老东家对簿公堂，在英国劳动裁判庭上证明自己的被解雇是由于他的环境信仰，而不是因为公司重组。

• he just laid off the last of his 15 employees, he says, because he feared for their safety after they received anonymous telephone threats.

  由于手下的员工先后受到匿名电话威胁，出于为他们的安全考虑，他不得不先后解雇了最后这15名员工。

• when i was laid off from intel corporation in new york almost two years ago, i felt tremendous rejection.

  大约两年前，我从纽约的英特尔公司下岗了 被别人拒之门外心里可真不是滋味。

• meanwhile, about 600 agents stationed in the subways have been laid off as a result of the budget.

  同时，约600名工作在地铁系统的特勤人员也因为预算不足而遭到解雇。

• because of the financial crisis, she was laid off 11 months into her first job.

  由于受到金融危机的影响，她在开始工作11个月后被解雇了。

• cuts in the education budget will probably shorten the school year by a week, require teachers to be laid off and cause classes to get bigger.

  教育预算的削减很可能会让学年减少一个星期，这就要求部分教师下岗，造成班级规模扩大。

• many workers have been laid off but, thanks to iceland’s labour laws, they have three months’ notice, so the impact is not yet being fully felt.

  许多工人下岗，不过得益于冰岛的劳动法，他们会提前三个月得到通知，所以沖击还没有什么明显的感觉。

相似词

discharge出院，免职；释放；（液体、气体等的）排出；排出物；放电；开枪；下客；履行责任；（债务的）清偿

dismissal解雇；免职

furlough準假；暂时解雇