“裁员”的6种英文说法，最后一种好残忍！

“裁员”的6种英文说法，最后一种好残忍！

“裁员”的6种英文说法如下：

fire

中文义：解雇、开除

英文释义：to force sb to leave their job

例句：She got fired for her dishonesty.（她因不诚实被解雇。）

dismiss

中文义：（尤指因做错事）使免职、将…解职、解雇

英文释义：to remove someone from their job, especially because they have done something wrong

例句：Joey has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.（乔伊因无法胜任工作而被解职。）

sack

中文义：解雇、炒鱿鱼

英文释义：to dismiss sb from a job

例句：She was sacked for refusing to work on weekends.（她因拒绝在周末上班被解雇了。）

备注：sack比起dismiss较不正式，偏口语化。

lay off

中文义：（通常指因工作岗位不足而）辞退，解雇，使下岗

英文释义：If workers are laid off, they are told by their employers to leave their job, usually because there is no more work for them to do.

例句：They did not sell a single product for a month and had to lay off workers.（一个月来一件产品都卖不出去，他们只好裁员。）

redundancy

中文义：（因劳动力过剩）解雇、失业

英文释义：the state of being no longer in employment because there is no more work available

例句：The economic downturn has meant 10,000 redundancies in Japan.（由于经济衰退，日本有一万人失业。）

jobs cull

中文义：非常形象又残忍的说法，指裁员

英文释义：无直接释义，但可根据上下文理解为“a selective elimination of jobs”

例句：The long-anticipated jobs cull at the Wall Street titan is likely to affect most of the bank's major divisions.（华尔街这家巨头期待已久的裁员预计将影响该银行大多数主要部门。）

备注：jobs cull把员工比作待宰的动物，残酷之处在于它让员工们像动物一样无法反抗，只能接受安排。

以上就是“裁员”的6种英文说法，其中“jobs cull”因其形象且残忍的比喻而显得尤为特别。