A Little Girl's Diary

1 Living abroad

1.1 About business Working abroad (Track 1:04)

1. engineering [͵ɛndʒəˋnɪrɪŋ](n) [uncountable]工程技術(= the work involved in designing and building roads, bridges, machines etc)

2. firm [fɝm](n)公司(= a business or company, especially a small one)

3. as part of... 作為...的一部分

4. degree [dɪˋgri](n)[countable]學位

5. petroleum [pəˋtrolɪəm](n) [U]石油

6. near [nɪr](prep)在……附近

7. Munich 慕尼黑(位於德國的城市)

8. at first 最初(= at the beginning)

9. soon [sun](adv)很快地(=quickly)

10. make friends 交朋友

11. stop-stopped-stopped-stopping [stɑp](v)[intransitive and transitive]

￭ stop doing something 停止做某事(= if you stop doing something, you do not continue to do it)

12. homesick [ˋhom͵sɪk](adj)想家的

13. all over the world = around the world 全世界

￭ from all over the world 從全世界

14. German [ˋdʒɝmən](adj)德國的，德國人的

15. first [fɝst](adv)剛

16. show sb around (sth) 帶（某人）參觀(= to go with someone to all parts, or the main parts, of a place that they have not visited before, so that they can see what it is like or learn about it)

17. do a good/bad job 做得很棒/糟糕(= to do something well/badly)

18. hopefully [ˋhopfəlɪ](adv)（多用來修飾全句）但願，希望(=[sentence adverb]a way of saying what you hope will happen, which some people think is incorrect)

19. reference (= letter of reference) [ˋrɛfərəns](n)推薦信(=a letter containing information about you that is written by someone who knows you well, and is usually intended for a new employer)

20. position [pəˋzɪʃən](n)職位