英语词汇：办公室的“软面行李箱”

　　Soft-sided luggage refers to an employee whose talent and multi-tasking abilities allows him or her to take on assignment after assignment. They, like soft-side luggage, seemingly expand to handle the workload¹. Of course, they completely collapse² on weekends.

　　“软面行李箱”指才能出众、能同时处理多项任务的员工通常会接手一个又一个任务，就像软面行李箱一样可以拓展出空间来装更多的东西。当然，这些人一到周末基本都累昏过去了。

　　For example:

　　Jenny is like a soft-sided luggage in the office. She is taking most of the assignments and can always handle them properly.

　　珍妮就像办公室里的软面行李箱一样，大部分的工作任务都由她接手，而且她都能处理好。

 

1 workload   

n.作业量，工作量

参考例句：

• An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
• He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。

2 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。