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.

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。

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When Bill Brown's baby daughter was hurt in that auto accident last week, we passed the hat around the office and collected three hundred dollars to help pay the doctor's bill.

这句话的意思是：“当比尔．布朗的小女儿上星期在车祸里受伤以后，我们在办公室里募捐了三百多美元，来帮助比尔付医疗费。”

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In the twelve months before I took office, American auto companies lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.

在我主政前的十二个月里，美国的汽车公司有数十万人失业。

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So now we were walking slowly through the falling snow to the employment office for the Dodge auto company.

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