“办公室谋杀名单”有几人? <img src="/data/attachement/jpg/site1/20150512/00221910993f16bbd6eb63.jpg" border="0" />
中国日报网 2015-05-12 13:35
有人说职场残酷,明争暗斗无处不在。表面上一团和气,私底下横眉冷对的场景也并不少见。国外的影视剧里,还有人专门给自己的职场劲敌列了个名单,还起了个很吓人的名字office hit list。
Office hit list is a list of people with whom you work and whom you would also like to murder. But you never would because you're not a murderer so it's an "office hit list" instead of just a regular hit list that refers to a list of would-be victims in contract killing.
“办公室谋杀名单”指和你一同工作、但是你心里又特别想除掉的一些人的名单。但是你肯定不会动手杀掉他们,因为你不是杀手。所以呢,这个名单才叫“办公室谋杀名单”,而不是那种真正的雇凶杀人名单。
For example:
By the end of the week I had so many people on my office hit list that the entire company would be dead if I were actually a murderer. Good thing I'm not.
这周结束的时候,我的办公室谋杀名单上的人已经很多了,如果我是个杀手的话,全公司的人估计都要死了。幸好我不是。
(中国日报网英语点津 Helen)