onboarding是什么意思？先看下面英文定义：

Onboarding refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders. 就是员工入职培训的意思，也可以表示产品等刚开始使用，如果产品介绍中写easy onboarding，就是说这个产品使用起来很简单、容易上手。

Surprisingly, many organizations shortchange the resources and time to develop an effective employee onboarding process. Maybe they understand the opportunity that effective onboarding presents, but they just haven’t made a compelling case for change to upper management. Or, maybe they don’t understand how solid onboarding practices allow:

• new employees to become more productive sooner
• organizations to scale and meet growth objectives
• HR  professionals to address a skills gap present in their workforce

其他一些词汇：

1. shortchange少找零钱，欺骗
2. employee onboarding process员工入职流程
3. compelling令人信服的
4. upper management高层管理人员

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. 上帝赐予我们生命，上帝也夺走我们的生命。西方国家葬礼上牧师一般都要说这句话，感叹人的一生十分短暂。

（注：giveth = gives taketh = takes 这是古英语的第三人称单数的写法。）

Source:

This phrase has its origins in Job 1:21 of the King James Version of the Bible. 原话来自《圣经》：In the 21st verse of the first chapter of the book of Job:

And [Job] said, ‘Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD’.

It is Job’s pious reaction to the news of the death of all of his children and the loss of all of his property.

Job suffers tremendous trials, such as those described by GWB. And yet, he maintains his faith in God. The meaning of this phrase as it is popularly used is something like this:

We must accept with humility and faith whatever happens to us in life, both good and bad, because life itself is a gift from God. He gives to us and He takes from us according to His own plan.

Surely this expression has been used by many, but the words have been altered slightly to a more colloquial use. As you might imagine, it is a sentiment commonly expressed at funerals.

Meaning:

words used in funeral services about the transience of life’s benefits

在2020年2月11日的美国新罕布什尔州民主党初选中，民主党华裔候选人杨安泽（Andrew Yang）感觉胜利无望，遂宣布退选。19日，美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）突然宣布，杨安泽将以政治评论员的身份加入CNN，这一消息随后得到杨安泽本人的确认。而杨安泽入驻CNN后的首秀，就是参与评论即将开始的拉斯维加斯民主党辩论。

19日，CNN首先在推特上公布了欢迎杨安泽加入的消息。 随后杨安泽转发了这条推特，表示自己将参与CNN对拉斯维加斯民主党辩论的评论，并正式回应了入驻CNN这一消息：

“I’m excited to join CNN to help shed light on the election and the candidates’ experiences. Learned a lot these past months and am glad to contribute to the public discussion.”

“我很高兴加入CNN并帮助分析选举和候选人的经历。过去几个月中我学到很多，并愿意为公众讨论贡献力量。”

shed light on (同义throw light on)
英 [ʃed laɪt ɒn] 美 [ʃed laɪt ɑːn]
阐明;解释;将…弄明白;照亮

可以直接用shed/throw light on something，也可以在light之前加上一些形容词灵活使用，如加上some来使用，shed some light on something / throw some light on something，疑问句中一般用做shed any light on something / throw any light on something。

下面是一些例句：

1. Can economic theory shed any light on this? 经济学理论能解释这一点吗？
2. The notion of surplus wage also throws new light on the ongoing ‘ anti-capitalist ‘ protests. 剩余工资的观念也从新的角度阐明了正在进行的“反-资本主义”的抗议。
3. But scientists say research has helped shed even more light on what made taylor ‘s beauty so rare. 但是，科学家们说，研究可以帮助我们更清楚地了解是什么让泰勒的美如此非同寻常。
4. This trend sheds light on one of the central mysteries of the recovery : why so many people have left the labour force . 这种趋势揭示了光在中央经济复苏的奥秘之一：为什么如此多的人已经不再算是劳动力。
5. Firstly, this paper reviews foreign and domestic research on practical teaching and shed light on China’s teaching status and problems. 本文首先综述了国内外有关实践教学及其保障体系的研究，分析了我国高校当前实践教学的现状和问题。
6. Two recent, unanimous Supreme Court decisions have shed light on the meaning of this vague exemption. 两个最近的 、 意见一致的最高法院的判决为这一模糊例外的含义作了说明。

tax-cut bill 减税法案
tax cut减税

例句：

1. In the original tax-cut bill passed by the House in November, the top income tax rate remained unchanged at 39.6%.

2. There are at least five separate parts of the House legislation — which I call a “tax cut” bill because it sure isn’t “tax reform” — that will benefit Trump and his family.

3. There are at least five separate parts of the House legislation — which I call a “tax cut” bill because it sure isn’t “tax reform” — that will benefit Trump and his family. I originally had only three, which I called the Trump Tax Trifecta, but then my Washington Post colleagues sent me two others. So now Trump has a five-fecta.
House 众议院 （House of Representatives）
Trifecta [traɪ’fektə] (赛马赌博的)三连胜式

badly off [ˈbædli ɔf]
贫困的，境况不好的 （比较级：worse off 最高级：worst off）

1. The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, so they are not too badly off.
日本每周平均工作时间为42.3小时，和英国的每周41.6小时相比，他们的情况并不算太糟。

2. She was quite badly off for a while after her husband died.
丈夫去世后的一段时期内她很贫困。

badly off for 缺少，缺乏，供应不足

1. The refugees are badly off for blankets, and even worse off for food.
难民需要毯子，更需要食物。

2. I am badly off for meeting a friend.
我立刻得走,见个朋友。

3. Even now some universities are badly off for English teachers.
即使现在有些大学英语教师也很缺。

worse off 英[wə:s ɔf] 美[wɚs ɔf]
恶化，情况更坏；愈加贫穷的；每况愈下的（是badly off的比较级，better off的反义词）

worse off一般用be worse off，在和使役动词连用时不需要be，如：
1. Youth are worse off financially than before.
2. Most British fear their children will be worse off than they are.
3. Almost three-quarters of the French think they will be worse off a decade from now, and so do half of all those polled in Germany, despite its economic recovery.
4. If you lose your job, we’ll be worse off.
5. This situation will leave us worse off.
6. Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off.

英语中使役动词是表示使、令、让、帮、叫等意义的不完全及物动词，主要有leave（离开）.get（得到）.keep（保持）.make（使， 令），let（让），help（帮助），have（有；让；从事；允许；拿）等。

migrant, immigrant和emigrant 三个词都有移民、移居者的含义，但有以下不同：

migrant 主要意思是国内的移居者,在城市之间移居, 一般是指民工
immigrant 主要是指侨民, 即从外国迁入的移民
emigrant 主要是指从本国移往他国的移民, 即迁出的移民

主要词汇:
1, migrant 英 [ˈmaɪgrənt] 美 [ˈmaɪɡrənt]
n. 候鸟；移居者，移民；随季节迁移的工作者；迁移动物
adj. 移居的；流浪的
例句: The migrant workers are worse off than the average city dwellers.
民工生活苦于一般城里人。

2, immigrant 英 [ˈɪmɪgrənt] 美 [ˈɪmɪɡrənt]
n. 移民，侨民；从异地移入的动物[植物]
adj. 移民的，移来的；侨民的
例句: Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction.
移民故事一直是小说中常见的主题。

3, emigrant 英 [ˈemɪgrənt] 美 [ˈɛmɪɡrənt]
n. （从本国移往他国的）移民
adj. 移居的，移民的，侨居的
例句: They are emigrant labourers.
他们是移居他国的劳工。