Javi Mula《Come On》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:11.23]I'm Susan Clark with the Special English program Words and Their Stories [00:15.99](MUSIC) [00:20.55]The Italians have an old saying Il dolce far niente The words mean it is sweet or [00:25.65]On weekends and during holidays many of us enjoy doing nothing But most of the time we [00:36.68]enjoyable to do nothing [00:41.59]have to work And to keep our jobs we must work hard Our employer will not like it if we do [00:47.64]nothing [00:47.89]American workers often call their employers bosses The word boss comes from the Dutch [00:56.74]word baas meaning master [00:58.80]Sometimes company bosses are called the brass They also are sometimes called top brass [01:08.62]or brass hats [01:10.99]Experts disagree about how these strange expressions started But they may have come from [01:19.77]Britain Leaders of the nineteenth century British army wore pieces of metal called oak leaves [01:26.73]on their hats The metal brass has a color similar to that of gold So a leader or commander [01:34.75]came to be called a member of the brass Or he might have been called a brass hat Or [01:42.96]even the top brass [01:44.72]By the nineteen forties the expression had spread beyond military leaders It also included [01:53.13]civilian officials [01:56.96]A newspaper in the American city of Philadelphia used the term in nineteen forty-nine It called [02:03.19]the most important police officials top brass [02:08.40]Other expressions that mean boss or employer have nothing to do with brass or hats One of [02:18.14]these is big cheese A cheese is a solid food made from milk [02:24.35]The expression probably started in America in the late nineteenth century Some experts [02:31.82]believe it comes from a word in the Uersian or urdu languages -- chiz The meaning is a thing [02:40.48]So the meaning of big cheese may be a big thing [02:45.69]Other experts say the word cheese in this expression was really an incorrect way of saying [02:54.45]chief The word chief means leader So the expression may mean big leader [03:02.95]An employer usually does not object to being called boss But most workers would not call their [03:11.55]employers big cheeses top brass or brass hats to their faces [03:18.39]These words are not really insulting But neither do they show great respect [03:25.52]Employers also have expressions to describe their workers One of them that describes a good [03:35.73]worker is that he or she works like a Trojan [03:41.73]This expression probably comes from the ancient writings of the Greek poet Homer He wrote [03:45.87]about the Trojans who lived in the city of Troy He said Trojans worked very hard to protect [03:54.60]their city [03:55.79]Now the expression often is used to describe an employee who works hard for a company A [04:04.39]loyal hard-working employee is said to work like a Trojan [04:09.02]So be happy if your company's brass hats say you work like a Trojan They may consider you [04:18.37]valuable enough to increase your pay [04:25.02](MUSIC) [04:33.94]This Special English program Words and Their Stories was written by Jeri Watson I'm Susan [04:41.46]Clark