办公室英语行话
Water-cooler chat
This is an Americanism that has crossed over into British English too. Most offices these days have a water cooler, and this phrase has come to mean anything that people talk about when they happen to meet at the water cooler. This tends to refer to gossip or trivial things like discussing what happened in the soap opera that was on last night.
这是一个美式短语，它同样也存在于英式英语中。现在许多公司都有饮水机，这个短语的意思是，大家在喝水的时候碰到会谈论一些事情。这会涉及到一些闲聊或者琐碎的事情，像讨论前天晚上肥皂剧的剧情是怎么发展的。
下班临近
Close of play
Often shortened to COP in emails and text messages, and also as end of play or EOP, this simply means by the end of the working day. Why do bosses ask if they can have this work done by close of play rather than just asking if they can have it done today? Perhaps they are trying to make work sound more fun, as close of play is a sporting term, particularly used when it comes to cricket, where it means when the game ends for the day.
在邮件和短信里通常会被缩写为COP，也同样可以写作EOP,end of play，它的意思仅仅是下班前。为什么老板会问他们是否能在下班前把这个工作做完而不是问今天他们能不能把它做完?也许他们在尝试让工作听起来更有趣，结束是当做一个体育术语，特别是用于板球的结尾，在这里它的意思是一天板球运动的结尾。
休假
Annual leave
In the days before office-speak took over, people would simply say that they were going on holiday. But that doesn’t sound quite corporate, serious and professional enough. So you’ll often find people referring to their summer holiday as their ‘period of annual leave,’ for example, in their out-of-office auto reply email.
这些天，在办公室闲聊接手之前，人们会简单的说他们要去度假。但是这听起来相当不合群体，不严谨和不专业。因此你会经常发现人们会提到他们的暑假作为他们的.‘休假’，例如，在他们不在办公室的时候回复邮件。
打印稿
hard cope
More and more of our work documents are created and shared online without the need for printing, which is better for the environment as well as saving us time and effort. But sometimes real, physical documents are required. When someone wants a physical print out of a document rather than an electronic copy, they will ask for a hard copy.
我们越来越多的工作文件没有必要打印，在网上直接写出来同大家一起分享，这种环境会更好，也会节约我们的时间和努力。但是有些时候真的，一些物理文档是需要纸质版的。当有人想要纸质文件而不是电子版的文时件，他们会要一个打印稿。
头打开思维
think outside the box
No one knows what the box is, or what’s inside it, but bosses seem to like it when workers are outside it. If someone at your work asks you to think outside the box it means they don’t want you to limit your thinking. They want creativity, and ideas, and thinking outside the mainstream. This term is used to try and encourage new ideas and a fresh approach to problems.
没有人知道这个盒子的范围是什么，或者里面装有什么，但是老板们似乎喜欢员工们都在外面。如果有人在你的工作范围要求你去打开思维想想外在的方面，这意味着他们不想限制你的思维想让你开发空间。他们想要的是创新，好点子和想到市场的主流。这个术语被用作试图激励员工想出新办法和一个新方法来解决问题。
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