关于Holiday的一些表达.pptVIP

busman‘s holiday有名无实的假日 A holiday in which you spend most of your time doing the same or something very similar to your normal work. I will spend a busmans holiday during the National Day. 　　 Degifting 免礼 Degifting is a mutual agreement to suspend holiday gifts, usually within a single family or circle of friends. Due to the recession, weve decided that degifting is the best plan for Christmas this year. Instead, were all getting together to serve food at the homeless shelter. Regifting 礼物转送 Call it tacky, rude, maybe even thoughtless, but regifting is about as ritualistic as giving away that lump of jellied fruit every year. A two-year study has found that most Americans have done it. According to the study, 54 percent of Americans rewrap, rebox and resend unwanted presents. Now, you know regifting means to give as a gift something that one received as a gift. Angela thinks some of her wedding gifts may have been regifted once or twice already. on-calliday 待命假日 On-calliday is the special, and personal, time of year that you take time off from your work duties to spend with families, aka holiday, but are required by your company to be accessible (as by mobile phone, pda or laptop) to address urgent issues. That’s why it is called on-call holiday (on-calliday). Have a safe on-calliday and a happy new year, don’t forget to login while you enjoy your eggnog. 祝你待命假日相安无事，同祝新年快乐。品尝蛋酒的时候别忘了登录网络保持在线啊。 party promise聚会上的约定  Party promises are those plans you make at the end of social gatherings where one, if not both, promiser never actually intends on following through. Dude, we should totally grab coffee sometime soon! -Yea, totally! (one or both thinking: this coffee date will never happen, but I can stop talking to them now) Leisure quotient（LQ）玩商 Leisure quotient（LQ）is an index used to describe the ability to relax and play, which psychologists say is important to contentment and future achievement. A high LQ usually means that the person has a go