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pink slip If you get an email or a letter that officially announces you've been laid off from your job, you can call it a pink slip. Some hard workers get pink slips because their employers are trying to save money by eliminating positions. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months. 2007.3

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n.解雇通知 In some cases, workers receive literal pink slips — notices (traditionally on pink paper) included with their paychecks informing them that they've been fired or laid off. Pink slip is mainly figurative these days: if you say, "I got my pink slip today," you mean "I lost my job today." The term probably started in vaudeville theater at the beginning of the 20th century, when stage acts received cancellation notices on pink slips of paper.

英语单词	pink slip
中文释义	n.解雇通知
vocab简明	If you get an email or a letter that officially announces you've been laid off from your job, you can call it a pink slip. Some hard workers get pink slips because their employers are trying to save money by eliminating positions.
vocab扩展	In some cases, workers receive literal pink slips — notices (traditionally on pink paper) included with their paychecks informing them that they've been fired or laid off. Pink slip is mainly figurative these days: if you say, "I got my pink slip today," you mean "I lost my job today." The term probably started in vaudeville theater at the beginning of the 20th century, when stage acts received cancellation notices on pink slips of paper.
真题原句	Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.
柯林斯解释
来源	2007.3

Pink Slip Laid Workers Notices I N.解雇通知 Email