dismiss（尤指因做错事）使免职，将...解职He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.他因无法胜任工作而被解职。axe（美亦作ax）He has been axed from the team.他被团队开除了。lay off开除；罢免The factory is going to lay off many workers.工厂打算裁员。经典对话A: Hello, John. Could you come to my office?你好，约翰，能来一下我的办公室吗？B: Sure. I'm just coming. Mr green, what can I do for you?当然，我马上就来格林先生，请问您找我有什么事吗？A: Have a seat, please. The staff in your department are pretty good. Everyone is working hard, these are all inseparable from your management. 请坐。你们部门的员工都很努力，每个人都在认真的工作，这些都离不开你的管理。B: It's nothing. We also need to improve sales performance in every month to create greater value for the company. 这没什么，我们还需要提高每个月的销售业绩，为公司创造更大的价值。A: Our business has been going down sharply in the past few months and we have to lay off some staff members. 我们的业务在过去几个月里急剧下降，我们不得不裁减一些工作人员。B: Do you mean to cut staff in our department?你的意思是说在我们部门裁减人员吗？A: Yes, I'm sorry to tell you the news. Although you have been working very hard, your department's performance is not very good. 是的，很抱歉告诉你这个消息，虽然你们一直都很努力，但是你们部门的业绩一直不好。B: I'm among the people who have to go?我也是其中一员吗？A: As a sales manager, you have not increased our sales.作为销售经理，你没有增加我们的销售量。B: You know, I've always been very conscientious. This job is especially important to me. I was counting on it to feed my family.你是知道的，我一直都很尽职尽责。这份工作对我来说很重要，我还指望他养活我的家人呢。A: I'm so sorry, but this is the board's decision, there's nothing I can do.我真的很抱歉，但这是董事会的决定，我也无能为力。B: All right. I try to accept the fact. 好吧，我尽量接受这个事实。

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