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A: I've been waiting here in the conference room for ten minutes already. What time does our meeting start? Where is everyone anyway?
B: Didn't you hear about that? Our meeting was prosponed until Friday.
A: what? The meeting was prosponed? No one told me anything about it.
B: didn't you get the memo?
A: what memo? There haven't been any memos this whole week. I check my inbox every day, and I haven't seen anything.
B: the memo went out three days ago. It should have made it to your in-box, but maybe it got lost in all the clutter on your desk.
A: you know how things get piled up on my desk when I am busy—I know that sometimes I do misplace things, but I always read all the memos that go around. They go directly to my in-box. Are you sure it was sent to the whole office?
B: it should have gone around to everybody. They also posted a copy of the memo in the break-room. Don't you ever look at the messages posted on the bulletin board?
A: I'm usually too busy to take a bunch of coffee breaks and gossip by the water cooler. Anyway, I am sure the memo never got to my in-box. I'll have to talk to our secretary about it.
B: that's right. You never know what you're missing out if you don't read the memos.
参考翻译
我在会议室已经等了10分钟了.会议什么时候开始?其他人都在哪儿?
你没听说吗?会议推到周五了.
什么?会议推迟了?没有人告诉我啊.
你没有看到备忘录吗?
什么样的备忘录?整个这一周我也没见过什么备忘录。每天我都查看收文蓝，什么也没看见。
备忘录是3天前发出去的，应该放进你的收文蓝了，但也可能夹在你办公桌上那堆乱七八糟的东西里面。
你也知道我忙时桌上的东西会堆成山—我也清楚有时我会把东西放错地方，但所有发下来的备忘录我都会看的。这些备忘录都会直接放进我的收文蓝。你肯定所有的办公室都发了吗？
应该发给所有人了。他们还在休息室贴了一张备忘录的复印件。你也没看到布告栏上贴的信息吗？
我总是忙的顾不上喝咖啡休息一下，或是水冷却器旁跟人闲聊。不管怎样，我肯定我的收文蓝里没有备忘录。我要去找秘书谈谈。
好吧。如果不读这些备忘录的话，你永远也不会知道自己还遗漏了什么信息.
单词句型总结
Postpone 推迟
Memo 备忘录
In-box 收文蓝
Clutter 杂乱
Misplace 把…放错地方
Post 张贴
Copy 副本

Bullstin board 布告栏
Hear about 听说
Get a memo 拿到备忘录
Go out 公布,发出
Get lost 丢掉
Pile up 堆积
Go around 供应

Didn't you hear about it?
你没听说吗?
Didn't you get the memo?
你没有看到备忘录吗？
There haven't been any memos this whole week.
整个一周我也没见过什么备忘录。
The memo went out three days ago.
备忘录是3天钱发出去的。
They go directly to my in-box.
这些都会直接放进我的收文蓝的。
Are you sure it was sent to the whole office?
你肯定所有的办公室都发了吗？