1·The company has no rules about favouring U.S. citizens during layoffs.
该公司没有在裁员期间偏袒美国公民的规定。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded.
随着企业裁员的增加，这部分已经受到侵蚀。
3·Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.
按照这项政策，减少个人工时来避免裁员。
4·U.S. business had become uncompetitive globally and began restructuring massively, with huge layoffs.
美国企业在全球范围内失去了竞争力，并开始大规模重组，大量裁员。
5·Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.
大规模裁员和工厂关闭多年来经常成为媒体头条和公众争论的焦点，现在偶尔也是这样。
1·Depending on a company's policies, workers at greatest risk of layoffs may be those who were most recently hired. Other targets are workers who aren't getting the job done.
不同的公司政策会有不同，不过一般而论，最可能被解雇的或许是那些最近聘用的人，还有那些完不成工作的人。
2·It legitimizes discussions of a taboo topic (layoffs).
它使得关于一个禁忌话题(解雇)的讨论合理化了。
3·While the unemployment rate is rising, the pace of layoffs has slowed from early this year, when nearly three-quarters of a million jobs were lost in January.
在失业率上升的同时，解雇的速度从今年年初开始放慢。一月份美国失去了近75万个就业机会。
4·Be specific.For example: "I think my job is in jeopardy because my employer just announced another round of layoffs."
例如：“我认为我的工作受到威胁是因为我的老板刚刚宣布解雇一批员工。”
5·The state of the Agile art should enable us to attain hyperproductivity, which will serve as the best antidote to layoffs.
敏捷的非凡之处能够让我们获得超级高效的生产力，而这将是应对“解雇”的最好解药。