BBC初級口語:辦公室着裝問題
Background: 在辦公室如何着裝纔是得體的？最新一項調查對來自24個國家，1.2萬人進行了採訪，可是結果顯示大家對這個問題都各執己見。
【文本】
If you're a T-shirts and jeans kind of a person, then here's some statistics worth knowing.
According to the Reuters poll, you should head to Hungary for a job, given that a mere twelve percent of people there dress smartly for work.
India on the other hand might be a trickier proposition, with nearly six in ten Indians wearing formal clothes in the office.
As a rule it seems Europeans are scruffier, whilst workers in South Korea, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia all tend to make more effort.
If you want to don a pair of shorts in the office, then nearly half of all Australians asked think that's fine.
However a mere tenth of Brazilians would agree.
Russians too would disapprove, although with the heatwave Moscow is experiencing, the temptation must be great.
And what happens if you want climb the corporate ladder?
Around two thirds of people believe senior managers should be smarter than their minions.
In Sweden you're less likely to be judged on what you wear on your way to the top.
But in France you might find the corridors of power closed to you if you intend to slouch down them wearing whatever you could find that morning.
【口語突破】
kind of a person
的一種人
head to
去
a mere
僅僅
dress smartly
穿着講究
trickier proposition
更爲棘手的情況
formal
正式
scruffier
（和其他國家相比）衣着不整齊
make more effort
更加註意
to don
穿上
heatwave
熱浪
temptation
誘惑
corporate ladder
公司晉升制度
minions
下屬
on your way to the top
晉升之路
the corridors of power
權利走廊（暗中左右和制定重大政策的政府或管理機構的上層權力中心）
slouch down
懶散
