be laid off

基本解釋

How many teachers will have to be laid off?
有多少老師將會下崗？
Cuts in the education budget will probably shorten the school year by a week, require teachers to be laid off and cause classes to get bigger.
教育預(yù)算的削減很可能會讓學(xué)年減少一個星期，這就要求部分教師下崗，造成班級規(guī)模擴(kuò)大。
What I’m saying is that it’s more likely that you’ll be laid off in the next 50 years of employment than me never reaching my goal after lots of failures.
我想要說的是與經(jīng)歷了許多失敗之后我還從未達(dá)成自己的目標(biāo)相比，你在未來的50年里更有可能被解雇。

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