counterbalancing self-help get a life information smog be better off granted a wealth of
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
At the same time, there's been a reduction in the number of knowledge workers, such as secretaries and company researchers that used to sift through information dumps to separate nonessential items from the valuable information that needed to be brought to a manager's attention. (長っ)
Yes, office gossip has taken on new dimensions in this high-tech age, becoming a dynamic force that can build camaraderie but also destroy work relationship or even careers.
Today's offices are rife with gossip because people spend more of their waking hours today at work than with their families.
And both types of rumormongering can be detrimental to the workplace.
Perhaps we should turn to a self-help Web sie on how to squelch rumors.
────────────────────────────── sift through, …をふるいにかける ────────────────────────────── If you sift through a large collection of something, you examine it carefully and thoroughly, usually because you need to organize it or find something out.
ex) A computer could sift through a huge number of records.
────────────────────────────── camaraderie, 仲間意識 ────────────────────────────── Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
ex) the family camaraderie in Italy
────────────────────────────── be rife with, …にあふれている、…がはびこっている ────────────────────────────── If you say that something, usually something bad, is rife in a place or that the place is rife with it, you mean that it is very common.
ex) Hollywood soon became rife with rumors.
────────────────────────────── be detrimental to, …にとって有害である ────────────────────────────── Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
ex) Many foods are suspected of being detrimental to health because of the chemicals and additives they contain.
────────────────────────────── squelch, 鎮圧する、やりこめる ────────────────────────────── If you squelch something that is causing you trouble, for example rumours or opposition, you firmly put a stop to it. [INFORMAL]
ex) The President wants to squelch any perception that the meeting is an attempt to negotiate.
────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── information dump, 情報の山 contribute to, …に貢献する proliferation, 激増、拡散 take on a new dimension, 新しい様相を帯びる rumormongering, うわさを広めること
"NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Information Glut (3) 5/30 2008"
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