轻松日记商务职场篇203:有失尊严

 　　核心句型：

　　It is not beneath your dignity to apologize to your subordinate.

　　向你的下属道歉并不会有失尊严。

　　beneath your dignity 直译过来就是：“在你的尊严下面”，这个短语的正确意思是：“有损你的尊严，有失尊严”。因此，当美国人说"It is not beneath your dignity to apologize to your subordinate."时，他/她要表达的意思就是:"You won't lose face to apologize to your subordinate."、"You won't lose your dignity to make an apology to your staff."。

　　情景对白：

　　Benjamin: It is not beneath your dignity to apologize to your subordinate, buddy¹.

　　本杰明：兄弟，向你的下属道歉并不会有失尊严。

　　Terry: You're right. I shouldn't have scolded him without reason. I'll apologize to him.

　　泰瑞：你说得对。我不该无故责骂他。我会向他道歉的。

　　搭配句积累：

　　①Don't think too much about it.

　　不要想太多了。

　　②A fault confessed is half redressed³.

　　知错能改，善莫大焉。

　　③Every man has his faults.

　　金无足赤，人无完人。

　　④Go and talk to him.

　　去跟他谈谈吧。

　　单词：

　　1. beneath prep.在下方

　　The earth lay beneath a blanket of snow.

　　大地被厚厚的白雪覆盖。

　　Beneath his brash exterior⁴, he's still a little boy inside.

　　他外表盛气凌人，内心里还是个孩子。

　　Many find themselves having to take jobs far beneath them.

　　很多人觉得自己在工作上被迫大材小用。

　　2. redress² vt. 纠正

　　More and more victims turn to litigation to redress wrongs done to them.

　　越来越多的受害人通过诉讼来申雪冤屈。

　　He did all that he possibly could to redress the wrongs.

　　他尽了一切努力革除弊端。

　　He did all that he could do to redress these wrongs.

　　他尽可能地纠正这些错误。

1 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

2 redress   

n.赔偿，救济，矫正；v.纠正，匡正，革除

参考例句：

• He did all that he possibly could to redress the wrongs.他尽了一切努力革除弊端。
• Any man deserves redress if he has been injured unfairly.任何人若蒙受不公平的损害都应获得赔偿。

3 redressed   

v.改正( redress的过去式和过去分词 )；重加权衡；恢复平衡

参考例句：

• A fault confessed is half redressed. 承认错误等于改正了一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Those who had been wronged stood up and demanded that their wrongs be redressed, and those who had been made to suffer cruelly spoke out against those responsible for their suffering. 有冤伸冤，有苦诉苦。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 exterior   

adj.外部的，外在的；表面的

参考例句：

• The seed has a hard exterior covering.这种子外壳很硬。
• We are painting the exterior wall of the house.我们正在给房子的外墙涂漆。