TIPS OF THE DAY
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“解雇通知”怎么说
发端于美国的金融危机，已经演变成全球的经济危机。各大公司纷纷裁员，许多不幸的员工收到了解雇通知。了解“解雇”相关表达
这个“解雇通知”可以用pink
slip来表示。Pink是“粉红色的”。Slip的意思是小纸条。“粉红的小纸条”跟失业有什么关系呢？
近一百年前，美国不知道从哪一位老板将用粉红纸条写的解雇通知夹在雇员的工资袋里，告诉他们不用再去上班了。从1910年就有了pink
slip的说法，一直沿用下来。美国公司老板如果要解聘员工，就在员工的工资袋里加一张“粉红纸条，”说明雇员被解雇的原因。至于为什么要用粉红色，有解释认为，粉红色相对而言比较柔和，似乎可以慰藉被裁员工的“受伤心灵”。
和pink slip具有相同含义的另外两种说法是“marching orders”和“walking
papers”，其字面意是“下逐客令”。
与fire（开除）有所不同，收到pink slip, marching orders或walking
papers，往往是由于公司财务欠佳，不得不裁员。而fire多半是由于你不称职或犯了错而被“炒鱿鱼”。另外，介乎pink
slip和fire之间的是lay off（暂停雇用）。
当然，在日常生活中，“I am pink slipped”（我被公司裁掉了）这句话还是不说为妙，我们宁可告诉别人：I
dismiss my boss. （我把老板给炒了。）
当然了，现在的解雇通知不一定是粉红色，也有别的颜色。但是，pink
slip已经约定俗成，成为解雇通知书的同义词了。我们来看一个例句：
Honey, I have bad news. I got a pink slip in my pay envelope today.
The boss says I'm a good worker, but our business is way down and
he just can't afford to keep us all working.
亲爱的，我有个坏消息。今天，我的工资袋里加了一张解雇通知书。老板说，我工作表现不错，不过，公司生意大幅度下跌，他雇不起这么多人了。
Song 2
NEWS SPOTLIGHT
首先进入今天的OLYMPIC UPDATE 新闻聚光灯:
we’ll have a listen to the latest news updates.
NEWS01
1.Cross-Straits Leaders Call for
Joint Efforts to Tackle Financial Crisis
第四届两岸经贸文化论坛在上海隆重开幕。来自海峡两岸的各界有识之士欢聚一堂，共商扩大和深化两岸经济交流合作大计，是新形势下两岸关系中的一件大事。
Taiwan Straits 台湾海峡
to tackle 解决 Everyone has his problem to tackle.每人都有一些问题要去解决。
Initiate 发起 initiate a reform开始改革
Leaders from across the
Taiwan Straits have called for joint efforts to tackle the impact
of the global financial crisis.
Wu Poh-hsiung, Chairman of
Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party, made his call during the 4th
Cross-Straits Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum between the
Chinese mainland and Taiwan that started in Shanghai on
Saturday.
"We should conduct joint
cooperation to fight against the financial crisis by exploring
feasible patterns. We should also support each other in economy,
particularly to resolve the obstacle of financing for the bulk of
Taiwan business people with concrete measures."
The Kuomintang leader also
called on both sides from across the Straits to help expand the
markets by exchanges of investment, experience and technologies in
major projects.
Addressing the opening of the
two-day forum, Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the
Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau, also
stressed the importance of cross-Straits trade during such
period.
"Both sides should make
common efforts actively to deal with the financial crisis. At this
crucial moment, compatriots from across the Straits should find
ways to support each other and enhance bilateral trade of mutual
benefits, stabilizing economy and improving people's
lives."
The forum, themed "deepening
cross-Straits economic exchange and cooperation", is co-organized
by the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang.
Topics include expanding
cross-Straits cooperation in the finance and service sectors,
encouraging two-way investment and regularizing economic exchanges
between the two sides.
It was initiated by Chinese
President Hu Jintao and former Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan when
the two met in 2005. The first forum was held in 2006.
NEWS02
Central Athens becomes calm
after clashes overnight
Downtown 市区 live in downtown
住在市区
Clash 冲突
Rioter 暴乱者
Violence 暴力
`Molotov cocktail 燃烧弹 `moletof
tear gas 催泪瓦斯
希腊首都雅典局势已逐渐平静。中心城镇的交通恢复，有游客乘坐敞篷双层巴士游览观光。雅典卫城的咖啡厅生意兴隆。
2. Downtown
Athens was peaceful on Sunday after another night of rioting at the
Polytechnic Institute.
Although guarded by police,
the central Christmas tree was still standing in the city's main
Syntagma square and men dressed in Santa Claus costumes were seen
entertaining children.
After a few days of relative
calm, Saturday night again saw clashes between Greek police and
rioters at Athens Polytechnic University.
Rioters were seen throwing
stones and Molotov cocktails at Greek police, as well as trying to
disturb officers with green laser pointers, and police responded
with tear gas.
Amalia Dafni, a local
resident said this year's Athens is quite different from the city
in previous years.
"It's not the Athens that
we've seen every year. Not the Athens that we know. The Athens we
know is much more lively, much more festive. This year it is a cold
Athens."
Violence in Greece broke out
after the police's fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy on December
6th.
Protests over the boy's death
and the increasing economic hardship in Greece have led to the
worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Hundreds of businesses have
been smashed, burned or looted, and gangs of youths fought running
battles with riot police firing tear gas every night for a
week.
NEWS03
3． Xinhua: Vouchers for Training Courses
Eligible 符合条件的 be eligible for a
position合格担当某职
migrant worker 民工
unemployment pressure 失业压力
为缓解国际金融危机给我国带来的就业压力，四川省成都市政府继“向困难群众发放100元消费券”后再出新政，向市外返乡农民工、2008届以前未就业大中专毕业生等三类人员发放每人500元就业培训券，助其免费学电脑或者初级美容美发等技能，鼓励城乡劳动者通过培训提升就业层次，帮助他们重新找工作。
The Chengdu Municipal government in Southeast China's Sichuan
Province recently announced that it would spend another 75 million
yuan, or more than 10 million U.S. dollars, next month on
employment training courses for 150,000 people.
Three groups of people will be eligible for the courses -- jobless
migrant workers who have returned home, unemployed university and
college graduates and laid-off local workers. Each of them would
receive a 500-yuan voucher to acquire new skills at various
training institutions.
A commentary in the Xinhua Daily Telegraph calls the action a
considerate measure that will yield long-term benefits. Amid the
current global financial crisis, many jobless migrant workers are
returning home for jobs, which have greatly intensified local
unemployment pressure. The article praises what it considers a
significant move by the Chengdu government to provide the
unemployed with chances to learn new skills and knowledge so they
can create better lives for themselves.
The commentary goes on to say that many migrant laborers have lost
their jobs because most of them are low-level workers involved in
the primary processing industry. Now that they are returning home,
they can make use of the lull in their employment to acquire some
new knowledge, it said. Improving their skills also would help
accelerate the country's industrial structure optimization, the
article said.
The commentary also says that efforts are needed to ensure the
effective implementation of this new measure, so that laid-off
workers can work through their difficult situation and gain new
opportunities for employment. The paper suggests that other local
governments follow suit to reduce local unemployment
pressure.
SONG 02
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BEYOND THE STUDIO
Welcome back to
East&West Monday edition – Beyond the Studio. Im
your host, john.
欢迎回来继续收听直播当中的BEYOND THE STUDIO. 穿行直播间。
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THE STUDIO 环节当中我们就一起和CRI的记者了解一下这位创办个性化旅游服务的SARAH
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