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1.have something in common 有共同点
He's a bartender, so you have something in common.
他是个调酒师，所以你们有共同点。
2.give rise to 造成，引起，导致
Low levels of choline in the body can give rise to high blood-pressure
体内胆碱水平过低会引起高血压。
n. 衰微，跌落; 晚年
v. 降低，婉谢
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- 巴托比专栏
- Labour's lost love
- 职员们遗失的爱情
- The decline of the office romance
- 办公室恋情的减少
- Their eyes met across the office photocopier.
- 他们的目光在办公室的复印机上交汇。
- At long last, each of them had found someone who could push their buttons.
- 最后，他们每个人都找到了一个能够让自己心动的人。
- Eventually, they settled down and decided to reproduce.
- 最终，他们安定下来，决定生儿育女。
- Read more in "Fifty Sheets of Grey Paper", out soon in paperback.
- 阅读《Fifty Sheets of Grey Paper》了解更多内容，该书很快就会推出平装本。
- Romance is a long-established sideeffect of office life.
- 浪漫是办公室生活中的一个长期存在的副效应。
- After all, people may spend almost half their waking hours at work,
- 毕竟，人们可能会把醒着的几乎一半的时间花在工作上，
- and their colleagues will frequently have something in common with them,
- 他们的同事也经常会和他们有一些共同话题，
- even if it is only complaining about the manager.
- 即使大家只是抱怨经理。
- Some relationships are inevitably bound to result.
- 不可避免的就会产生一些关系。
- But the lockdown has made the forming of new romances much more difficult.
- 但封锁使职员们更难产生新的恋情。
- Although online dating has thrived in the pandemic,
- 尽管在疫情期间，线上约会蓬勃发展，
- the number of people who have met their soulmate via a work Zoom meeting must be vanishingly small.
- 但是能够通过“Zoom会议”平台结识灵魂伴侣的人却少之又少。
- It is hard to flirt while your facial expressions are being observed by a dozen colleagues.
- 有十几个同事观察到你的表情时，你很难去打情骂俏。
- And how private is company videoconferencing software's private-chat function, really?
- 公司视频会议软件的私人聊天功能到底有多私密，真的能做到很私密吗？
- Even before the pandemic, however, office romances were in decline.
- 然而，即使在疫情爆发之前，办公室恋情也在减少。
- In 1995, 19% of (heterosexual) people met their partner at work, according to a study by Stanford University.
- 根据斯坦福大学的一项研究，1995年，19%的异性恋者在工作中遇到了他们的伴侣。
- By 2017 this had fallen to 11%.
- 到2017年，这一比例已降至11%。
- It will be even lower now.
- 现在的这一比例更低。
- As white-collar employees toil more hours at home and fewer at the office—
- 随着白领们在家办公的时间越来越长，而在办公室工作的时间却越来越少，
- which seems likely even after the virus recedes— opportunities for workplace romantic connections will dwindle.
- 即使病毒消退，办公室恋情的机会也会减少。
- One reason for the decline is that companies have realised that work relationships give rise to all kinds of ethical questions.
- 办公室恋情减少的一个原因是，公司已经意识到工作关系会引发各种各样的道德问题。
- The idea of a boss marrying his secretary (or a doctor dating a nurse) is one of the oldest cliches around.
- 老板和他的秘书结婚（或者医生和护士约会）是人们对于办公室恋情最老套的看法之一。
- Sadly, the trope is so well established
- 可悲的是，这一指代已经根深蒂固，
- that secretaries and nurses have spent decades fending off the unwanted attentions of their superiors.
- 以至于秘书和护士花了几十年的时间来避开上级不必要的关注。
- As the MeToo movement has demonstrated, some men use their positions of power to harass women who work for them.
- 正如“我也是”运动证明的那样，一些男人利用他们的权力地位骚扰为他们工作的女性。
- Consensual relationships can cause problems as well.
- 两厢情愿的关系也会引发问题。
- A relationship with a subordinate makes it hard for a manager to be objective about their performance.
- 与下属产生恋爱关系会让管理者很难客观地评价他们的表现。
- Colleagues may understandably suspect the manager of favouritism.
- 同事们可能会怀疑管理者徇私，这种情况可以理解。
- Things may be as bad if the romance breaks down.
- 如果恋情破裂，情况可能会同样糟糕。
- Hurt feelings may make it hard for the ex-partners to work together
- 伤痛可能会让前伴侣难以在一起工作，
- and will also make it awkward for everyone else in the office.
- 也会让办公室里的其他人感到尴尬。
- The result of this is that many companies have policies that discourage or forbid managers from flings with someone who works for them.
- 由于这样的情况，许多公司会制定一些政策，不鼓励或禁止管理者与下属交往。
- Office relationships were blamed for the departure of Steve Easterbrook from his role as chief executive of McDonald's last year;
- 去年，由于办公室恋情，史蒂夫·伊斯特布鲁克从麦当劳首席执行官的位置上引咎离职，
- the fast-food company launched a lawsuit against Mr Easterbrook this week.
- 这家快餐公司本周对伊斯特布鲁克提起诉讼。
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| decline | [di'klain] | |||
| reproduce | [.ri:prə'dju:s] | |||
| partner | ['pɑ:tnə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| toil | [tɔil] | 联想记忆 | ||
| discourage | [dis'kʌridʒ] | 联想记忆 | ||
| ethical | ['eθikəl] | |||
| inevitably | [in'evitəbli] | |||
| subordinate | [sə'bɔ:dineit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| romantic | [rə'mæntik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| departure | [di'pɑ:tʃə] |
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