Using English at Work：16 Attending the Morning Meeting(2)

After I sat down, the manager passes out a handout¹ of the meeting agenda².

A "manager" is a person who is in charge of, or responsible for, a department or a team at work.

At a large company, for example, a salesperson³ begins working as a sales representative and, if he or she does well, might become a sales manager in a few years.

If he or she continues to do well, perhaps they will later become Vice⁴ President of Sales.

At this meeting, my manager passes out a handout of the meeting agenda.

A "handout" is a piece of paper that has information about the things that will be talked about during a meeting or a presentation.

At the university, in the classes, the professors will often have handouts⁵, things that they will give the students to look at that are related to their lecture or presentation.

Each person at the meeting or presentation gets a copy of the handout.

A presenter⁶ might give out handouts that have his or her contact information, for example, or handouts could have detailed⁷ financial information about a project.

In this case, the handout is of the meeting agenda itself.

An "agenda" is a plan for a meeting, showing what needs to be done, what needs to be discussed, in what order those things will be discussed.

My manager's handout of the meeting agenda is a piece of paper with a list of all the things that will be discussed during today's meeting.

The handout has some announcements on it.

An "announcement" is something that is written or said to let other people know about something.

Your company president may make an announcement, saying that everyone can take Friday off - have Friday as a vacation day.

That would never actually happen; that's just an example!

My manager goes over some bullet points on the handout.

"To go over something" means to talk about something, usually a document or report.

You might also go over your notes a few minutes before an exam to help yourself remember the most important things that you've studied - or that you didn't study!

1 handout   

n.散发的文字材料；救济品

参考例句：

• I read the handout carefully.我仔细看了这份分发的资料。
• His job was distributing handout at the street-corner.他的工作是在街头发传单。

2 agenda   

n.议事日程，记事册

参考例句：

• We now proceed to the next item on the agenda.我们现在着手讨论下一项议题。
• If there is no objection,the agenda is adopted.如果没有意见，议程就通过了。

3 salesperson   

n.售货员，营业员，店员

参考例句：

• A salesperson works in a shop.售货员在商店工作。
• Vanessa is a salesperson in a woman's wear department.凡妮莎是女装部的售货员。

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 handouts   

救济品( handout的名词复数 )； 施舍物； 印刷品； 讲义

参考例句：

• Soldiers oversee the food handouts. 士兵们看管着救济食品。
• Even after losing his job, he was too proud to accept handouts. 甚至在失去工作后，他仍然很骄傲，不愿接受施舍。

6 presenter   

n.（电视、广播的）主持人，赠与者

参考例句：

• Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
• The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。

7 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。