形容词
1. The employees of the firm are entitled to an annual paid leave of 30 days.
该公司雇员每年享受三十天带薪的假期。
Holidays and Benefits-(假期和福利)
A：Anything else?
还有其它的吗？
B：Yes, one last thing. How much holiday time do you give your employees every year?
是的，还有最后一件事。每年你们提供给员工的假期怎样的？
A：Our employees receive fifteen days of paid vacation every year. If you don’t use the full fifteen days, they carry over to the following year.
员工有15天的有薪假期。如果没有休完15天的话，可以顺沿至下一年。
B：How about sick days?
那么病假呢？
A：You get five paid sick days.
5天有薪病假。
paid
B：Any other benefits?
还有没有其他的福利？
A：Yes, we have an excellent retirement plan and medical insurance as well.
还有，我们公司还有一项极好的退休规划和医疗保险。
B：Great. Thanks so much for your time.
谢谢您花时间给我面试。
A：We’ll contact you soon, Ted. Thanks for coming in.
我们会尽快和你联系，特德。谢谢你能来。
在银行
A：I would like to open an account.
我要开立一个账户。
B：A deposit account or a current account?
没有支票的存款帐户还是有支票的活期存款帐户？
A：Er, I am not sure. You see, I have monthly remittances sent to me from China and I would like to have the money paid into an account.
哦，我也拿不定主意。你知道，中国每个月有汇款寄给我，我要把它存入帐户。
B：Then you’d better open a current account. The bank will give you a cheque book and you can take money out when you like.
那么你还是开立一个有支票的活期存款账户为好。银行将给你一本支票薄，你随时可以取出存款。
A：Fine. What do I have to do?
好的，我该办些什么手续呢？
B：Just fill in this form. Do you have any means of identification on you?
只要填一下这张表格。你是否带有身份证明文件？
A：Will my passport do?
我的护照可以吗？
B：Sure.
当然可以。
工作
A：Did you get the job?
你得到那份工作了吗？
B：Yes, I’ll be working in the development department.
是的，我将在发展部工作。
A：Did you meet your boss?
你见过老板了吗？
B：Just briefly. She seemed nice.
只是简单地见了一面。她看上去不错。
A：Will you have to work overtime?
你需要加班吗？
B：Sometimes. They said I should expect to work overtime once or twice a month.
有时需要，他们说我一个月可能会加一俩次班。
A：Is it paid or unpaid?
有加班费吗？
B：It’s unpaid, but I can then take an extra day off. So, if I work an extra 8 hours on a Thursday night, I can take Friday off.
没有。但是我可以调休一天，也就是说，如果我周四晚上多工作了八个小时，周五就可以休息一天。
A：That’s alright. It might be tiring, but then you can at least have a three-day holiday.
那还好，可能会比较疲劳，但之后就可以享受至少三天的假期了。
B：I think it’s great.
我觉得这样也挺好的。
A：How about your daily office hours?
你白天的工作时间是怎样的？
B：It’s just a 9-5 job, with a 30 minute lunch break.
朝九晚五，中午有30 分钟的午休时间。
A：Did you meet your other colleagues?
你见过其他同事了吗？
B：I met the people from my department. They all seemed nice.
见过我这个部门的了，他们看上去都很好。
A：Do you have an office?
你有自己的办公室吗？
B：Not yet. For now, I have to sit in a cubicle.
还没有，现在只能坐在格子间里。
A：How do you feel about that?
感觉怎么样？
B：I’m not ecstatic about it, but if nothing else, it will motivate me to work harder so I can get an office!
不是太满意，但是如果没有其它选择，这倒可以激励我努力工作，那样就能有自己的办公室了。
A：You’re always looking on the bright side of things!
你总是看到事物好的一面。
1. paid：programmers aid in debugging; 程式员除错辅助
1.
2. 有报酬的；领取薪金的
Paid workers, or people who do paid work, receive money for the work that they do.
e.g. Apart from a small team of paid staff, the organisation consists of unpaid volunteers.
除了一小组受薪员工外，这个组织里都是不领报酬的志愿者。
e.g. ...tourist visas, which prohibit paid work.
禁止从事有偿工作的旅游签证
3. （休假）带薪的
If you are given paid holiday, you get your wages or salary even though you are not at work.
e.g. ...10 days'' paid holiday for house hunting...
用于找房子的10天带薪假期
e.g. He has been placed on a paid leave of absence while investigations are made.
调查进行期间，单位给他放了带薪假。
4. 报酬…的；薪水…的
If you are well paid, you receive a lot of money for the work that you do. If you are badly paid, you do not receive much money.
e.g. ...a well-paid accountant...
高收入的会计师
e.g. Travel and tourism employees in the UK are among the worst paid in the developed world...
在发达国家中，英国的旅游行业雇员报酬最低。
5. 彻底终结；使化为泡影
If an unexpected event puts paid to someone''s hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them.
e.g. ...a series of airforce strikes that put paid to the General''s hopes of fighting on...
一连串空中打击粉碎了那位将军继续战斗的希望
e.g. Only six months ago I ran my own business. The recession put paid to that.
仅仅6个月前我还经营着自己的公司，经济衰退让公司关了门。
paid
adj
1. marked by the reception of pay
e.g. paid work
a paid official
a paid announcement
a paid check
2. involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby
Synonym: nonrecreational
3. yielding a fair profit