water cooler

water cooler什么意思,water cooler翻译

基本解释

n.: 饮水机；【新闻传媒】指办公室里人们可以放松闲谈的场所
网络: 水冷却器；饮水冷却器；水冷器

权威解释

• 饮水冷却器:

  a machine, for example in an office, that cools water and supplies it for drinking

• 职员聊天处（饮水冷却器附近等的办公室人员闲谈处）:

  used when referring to a place where office workers talk in an informal way, for example near the water cooler

英汉解释

• 【新闻传媒】指办公室里人们可以放松闲谈的场所

• 饮水机

词性分析

• 复数：water coolers

例句

• It could be as simple as walking over to your colleague"s desk or to the water cooler.

  操作起来很简单：离开座位，走到同事的办公桌旁边或者饮水机旁边。

• Television executives have long endeavoured to create "water-cooler" shows which people will talk about at work the next day.

  电视主管长期致力于“水冷器”一般的节目，让人们在第二天的工作中继续谈论。

• He would notify colleagues before he stepped out to the water cooler.

  他出去到冷水机前都会告诉同事。

• Don"t break the news at a water cooler. Ask your boss for a few private words, or invite her for lunch.

  不要在茶水间公开消息，请求和领导私人谈话的时间，或者邀请领导一起共进午餐。

• If friendly water-cooler chitchat is turning into an emotionally charged interrogation , bow out of the conversation gracefully.

  如果友善的办公室闲聊变成了情绪激动的审讯，那就礼貌的结束这次谈话。

• Even if you can only spare five minutes, go for a walk (it might just be to the water cooler and back).

  尽管你只有五分钟的休息时间，去散散步（哪怕只是走到饮水机旁然后回来）。

• Establish a "virtual water cooler" by way of instant messaging, team rooms, or other collaboration mechanisms.

  建立“虚拟饮水机”（通过即时消息）、团队房间，或其他协作机制。

• So "water cooler chitchat" has come to refer to all types of informal communication that take place at the office.

  所以“饮水冷却器旁的闲谈”现在泛指在办公室中的各种非正式交流。

• During an ordinary water-cooler conversation, Kip"s coworker Theresa confided tragic details about her sequence of abusive boyfriends.

  一次在饮水机旁普通的谈话中，Kip的同事Theresa将其虐待型男友们一个个悲惨细节倾述出来。

• During a break, you head to the water cooler and the same colleagues pull you into a conversation about the latest office gossip.

  休息的间隙，你走到饮水机前，你的同事们和你谈起了最新的办公室故事。