“调休假”的英语口语学习对话

　　炼金过年了，越来越多的朋友开始“调休假”的大事。那么，您知道调休假用英文怎么说吗？就从一段对话中来丰富自己的口语知识吧。Jerry跟同事Paula跟Will打招呼，英语口语学习对话聊聊彼此周末都干了些什么。

　　
Jerry: Hey, Paula. Hi, Will. Did you have a good weekend?

Paula: Yeah… I checked out that new 3D movie. It's amazing what they can do with technologies these days!

Will: I went mountain biking with a couple of friends. We worked up a good sweat and had a good time. How about you, Jerry?

J: Actually, I spent most of the weekend looking at travel brochures.

Paula周末去看了新出的三维电影，3D movie. Will跟多少个友人一起去骑山地车，英语口语学习对话中的山地车在英语里叫 mountain bike，在上面那段话里是做动词用，Will went mountain biking. Will还说，他们出了一身汗，玩得特别开心。work up a sweat是一种习惯用法，指锻炼身体或从事体力活动很投入，可能是真的出了一身汗，也能够形容特殊卖命。Jerry呢，一个周末大部分时光都在看旅行宣传材料travel brochures. 看来他是要休假喽？Paula问：

P: Really? Are you going somewhere?

J: Well, starting on the 20th of this month, I'm taking a fiveweek vacation.

W: Five weeks!! No way!

P: Get out of here! How did you swing that?

J: Actually, the company owes me about four months' worth of vacation time. I've been working here since 2002 and haven't taken a vacation yet. I've got oodles of comp time as well.

W: Sorry, what's comp time?

Jerry要休五个星期的假，Will和Paula都不敢信赖，问Jerry, How did you swing that? to swing it是一种书面语里非正式的说法，意思是说服别人，达到本人的目的。Jerry说明说，他从2002年来这家公司工作，就始终没休过假，当初公司欠他四个月的假期，Jerry说，免费学习英语的网站，另外，I've got oodles of comp time as well. oodles of something也是一种非正式的说法，相当于a lot of something，Jerry说自己除了四个月的假期，还攒了很多comp time. Will是新毕业的大学生，不知道什么是comp time. Paula解释说，

P: The “comp” is short for compensation. Basically he means overtime pay.

J: Yeah, but some companies like ours don't really pay overtime… they give you extra vacation hours instead. If you add up all the vacation time and comp hours I have, I have a lot of time.

P: When I was working for a company in Germany they had super short work weeks and very liberal overtime rules.

Paula阐明说，comp是compensation的简写，切实就是overtime加班，有些公司不发加班费，而是把员工加班的时间折合成假期，补充给员工。另外，欧洲跟美国的情况也有很大的差异，Paula说，学习英语的网站，她以前曾经在德国的一家公司工作过，they had super short work weeks and very liberal overtime rules. 那家公司不仅工作时间短，而且加班的规定也very liberal，很松。

J: I have to say I'm looking forward to my long vacation. I think you need at least three or four weeks of doing nothing before you can truly relax.

W: I thought you said you had months and months of vacation time available. Why are you only taking five weeks off?

J: Five weeks was the best I could negotiate with my boss. She says she knows I've earned the time, but she begged me not to take more than five weeks.

P: Five weeks should be long enough! Who knows? Maybe you'll get bored and come back early!

J: （laugh） I doubt it.

Jerry诚然有好多少月的假期，但老板最多只让他休五个星期， 看来他一定是很能干。Paula开玩笑说，五个礼拜也足够了，搞不好用不了五个星期Jerry就觉得切实无聊，提前回来上班了呢！

　　从上面有关“调休假”的英语口语学习对话中，您还学习到了哪些重要短语呢？