desks

I used to ring them and try to persuade them to let me come and inspect their desks, their family photos and their bookshelves.

我给他们打电话，试着说服他们，允许我去参观其办公桌、家庭照和书架。

Take a look at the desks around you to see how yours fits in, and bear in mind you can manipulate it to send out a certain message.

看一下你周围的桌子来判断你的桌面情况有多高合适度，另外要记住你可以通过巧妙处理你的桌面来发出特定信号。

"We have a lot of designers here, and when they're trying to draw or do something creative, I start hearing the desks go up, " she said.

“我们办公室里有许多设计师，当他们想绘图或做一些创意工作时，他们会调高办公桌，站着工作，”她说。

These strips can run along the wall, or along the tops of desks, or sink into the surface of a conference table.

这种接线板可以贴墙面或桌面放置，或嵌到会议桌的桌面里。

Wood is often used to make desks and chairs.

木材常常被用来制作桌椅。

One of my supervisors was able to shoehorn his love for woodworking into a contract to build some desks and tables for the workplace.

我的一位上司因为一项制造桌椅的合同而喜欢上木工活。

Take the three "cash desks" it set up in its offices, to which employees could bring empty suitcases to be filled with cash.

以公司内设立的三个“收银台”为例，公司员工可以在“收银台”将空公文包装满现金。

Back at our desks come Tuesday, sunburned and a bit disoriented, we flash a cunning grin when a co-worker asks, "How was your weekend? "

星期二回到我们的工作台，太阳晒得黑黑的，并且有点在工作上抓不着头脑，当我们的工友问我们“周末过得好吗？”时，我们就会狡猾的咧齿一笑。

But there was no doubt that being "in the flow" gave investment banks' trading desks an edge.

但“近水楼台”的优势无疑是存在的。

Harry had been held back in Potions, where Snape had made him stay behind to scrape tubeworms off the desks.

哈利在魔药课上被留了堂，斯内普叫他留下来擦去桌上的多毛虫。

And the children are surrounded with Chinese characters on everything from the name cards on their desks to the drawing of a fish on a wall.

这些孩子周边到处都是汉字，从他们桌上的名片，到？上画的鱼。

Surprisingly, considering their crooked purpose, the cash desks seem to have operated on an honour system.

令人称奇的是，因其蓄意的企图，“现金台”似乎是在荣誉制度上运行的。

Well, it could be difficult. Our insurers seem to think the desks and chairs may not be too badly damaged.

可能有点儿困难。我们的保险商似乎认为那些桌椅损伤得不厉害。

Usually at the beginning of school, the noise of desks being opened and closed could be heard out in the street.

通常，在开始上课时，在街上都能听到打开和关上书桌的声音。

If you and your staff are sitting at desks all day, you may not need mobile technology.

如果你和你的员工整天都坐在办公桌后面，你们大概就不需要移动通讯技术。

Mr Keen had managed one of the bank's proprietary trading desks for almost three years before being made redundant in 2005.

基恩先生管理德国商业银行的一个自营交易部门达近3年，2005年被裁员。

The desks, which trade for the bank's own account, have come under scrutiny in the financial crisis.

自营交易部门是指银行为自己的账户做交易的部门。在金融危机中，这类部门受到了密切关注。

The financiers treasured them; they were displayed them in trophy cases or at least in prominent positions on their desks.

金融家很珍惜这些奖杯，他们把这些奖杯放在专门的盒子里展示或者至少把它们放在办公桌的显著位置上。

We've started putting cash desks at all the exits to prevent the shoplifters walking straight out with things.

我们开始在所有的出口设置收款台，以防小偷带着东西直接走出去。

Cost-containment tends to tumble downhill and land on the desks of managers, stimulating fear, uncertainty and doubt about Agile techniques.

成本遏制瞬即被提到管理者的办公桌上，并且增加了他们对敏捷技术的恐惧和怀疑。