How to Speak English About Work — Jobs, Careers & Native Expressions
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Welcome to the Real Life English podcast, where we help you to become a confident, natural English speaker, connect to the world, and actually use your English as the doorway to living your greatest life.
欢迎来到“真实生活英语”播客，在这里我们帮助你成为一名自信、自然的英语使用者，与世界接轨，并真正将英语作为通往精彩人生的敲门砖。
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So listen until the end because you are going to learn expressions that will help you discuss work while listening to a natural real-life conversation where Izzy and I talk about our first jobs and how we became entrepreneurs.
所以请听到最后，因为你将学到一些表达方式，帮助你讨论工作，同时还能听到一段自然的真实对话，我和伊兹（Izzy）会聊聊我们的第一份工作以及我们是如何成为创业者的。
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Ah, it's a person who runs a business, who decides to start their own business and run it, lead it.
啊，就是经营企业的人，决定创办自己的企业并经营、领导它的人。
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In case people didn't already know this, it's a very French-looking word.
如果大家还不知道的话，这看起来就是一个非常法语的词。
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We have a lot of words like this in English that we borrow from French, and it's built from two words in French: which means between and which is to take.
英语中有很多像这样的词是从法语借来的，它由两个法语词构成：entre 意为“在……之间”，prendre 意为“拿/取”。
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