His colleagues were aghast at the sackings 他的同事们对于这些解雇感到很吃惊。
He described talk of sackings as scare stories. 他说人们谈起解雇犹如在讲恐怖故事。
Given Portugal's inefficient and overstaffed public administration, sackings might have been a better option, but they would not produce results soon enough. 出于对葡萄牙公共管理部门低效率以及用人臃肿的考虑,裁员可能是个更好地选择,但成效却不会那么来得那么快。
So many companies were eligible for this as a result of brutal mass sackings in the past few months that the judges decided it would be unfair to single out any individual entrant. 由于太多公司因在过去几个月大规模野蛮裁员而具备获奖资格,因此评委们决定,选出任何一家公司获奖都有失公允。
He promised that there would be no more sackings. 他答应以后不再解雇人了。
The past 18 months have seen many reputations ravaged, plenty of high-profile sackings and a lot of business failures. 在过去的18个月中,许多人身败名裂,涌现了许多轰动一时的解雇事件,大量企业宣告破产。
They often lay off workmen during a business depression. Those may take the form of sackings redundancies, temporary layoffs or retirements. 在商业萧条期间,他们将工人暂时解雇。这些形式有开除,作为编余人员,暂时解雇或退休。
Moreover, the government has so far been reluctant to wipe out shareholders, penalise creditors or kick out tainted bosses, such as BofA's Ken Lewis& though it says sackings may yet be in order. 此外,政府到目前为止还不情愿消灭股东,处罚债权人或者撤换失职的老板们,例如美国银行的老板KenLewis,尽管政府声称很可能会解雇一些人。
There's been a lot of unusual sackings lately, which I've found hard to understand. 最近有很多人莫名其妙的丢了工作,我觉得很难理解。
Tough economic times have not yet translated into a spike in sackings of chief executives of the world's biggest companies. 严酷的经济环境尚未导致全球大型公司首席执行官被解雇的现象急剧增多。
It had, at least, not resorted to mass sackings as have competitors in other countries. 至少,它没有像其它国家的竞争对手一样,诉诸于大规模裁员。
From the start, I decided it would be better not to put names on the readers 'replies, mainly because people who are tempted to tell the world what they've learnt from their disastrous office affairs and humiliating sackings appreciate a little anonymity. 我从一开始就认为,不公开读者的名字更好,主要原因是,那些有兴趣把他们灾难性的办公室绯闻和令人羞辱的解雇经历告诉外界的人,希望保留一点隐私。