BE 607：你应该在工作中停止什么？

这里是商务英语播客第六百零七集。

This is the Business English Podcast episode six zero seven.

你在工作中应该停止做什么？

What should you put a stop to at work?

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无论是做演示、开会，还是参加公司的聚会，这里是Real Business English，由你们最喜欢的美国主持人Aubrey和Michelle主持，他们分别来自美国亚利桑那州和纽约市。

For a presentation, a meeting, or your office party, this is Real Business English with your favorite American hosts, Aubrey and Michelle, coming to you from Arizona and New York City, USA.

你有没有听过母语者说话，然后心想：我懂这些单词，但还是有点听不懂？

Have you ever listened to native speakers and thought, I understand the words, but I still feel slightly lost?

那是因为真实的英语对话不仅仅是词汇。

That's because real English conversations include more than vocabulary.

还有语速、连读、文化背景引用和随意的表达。

There's speed, there's connected speech, there are cultural references and casual phrases.

你的大脑得实时处理所有这些信息。

Your brain has to process all of this in real time.

如果对话有时让你觉得应付不过来，那可能只是说明你已经准备好进入下一阶段的训练了。

If conversations sometimes feel overwhelming, it may simply mean you're ready for the next level of training.

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Michelle，你收到很多垃圾邮件吗？

Michelle, do you get a lot of spam emails?

哦，是的。

Oh, yes.

我收到太多了。

I get so many.

其中有些可能是我某个时候订阅了他们的列表，所以我不停地在退订，就因为我当时买了点东西，他们现在把我加进了列表。

And some of them I've probably joined a list at some point, so I'm constantly unsubscribing just for something I bought at some time and they've now added me to a list.

对。

Right.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

这种事经常发生。

That happens all the time.

是啊。

Yeah.

我是说，你刚才说你会直接，就像，发个“停止”之类的。

I mean, so you said so you will just, like, kind of put stop.

如果你需要停止这些垃圾邮件或营销电话，你会怎么做？

If you need to put a stop to, like, these spam emails or marketing calls probably, what do you do?

对。

Yeah.

所以这就是我做的一件事。

So that's one thing I do.

对吧？

Right?

如果我想阻止这些邮件，我会退订那些邮件列表。

If I'm gonna try to put a stop to these emails, I'll unsubscribe to lists.

有时候好像有点用，但我收到很多垃圾短信或电话，根本没办法阻止。

That sometimes seems to help, but I get a lot of spam texts or calls that there's no way to put a stop to it.

感觉即使我点击停止或举报为垃圾信息，也不知道他们是怎么绕过去的。

Feel like even if I click stop or report it as spam or whatever, I don't know how they get around that.

看起来就是没办法阻止。

It seems like there's just no way to put a stop to that.

是的。

Yeah.

确实。

That's true.

所以今天我们要聊聊那些用来阻止事情发生的短语。

So today we are going to discuss phrases to stop things from happening.

这是《All Ears English》那一集的续集，那一集是2600个不会让你在英语交流中脱节的语法点。

And this is a follow-up to the episode of All Ears English, which was 2,600 grammar that won't keep you from connecting in English.

我们教了keep someone from加动词ing的用法。

So we taught keep someone from verb plus I n g.

那是我们当时重点讲的内容。

So that was what we were focusing on.

我们还提到，我们也会说stop them from和put a stop to，然后我们说会再做一期节目专门讲这些。

And we also mentioned that we also say stop them from and put a stop to, and we said we'd do another episode on those.

所以现在我们来了。

So here we are.

对。

Yes.

而且我们在工作中都很常用这两个表达。

And we use those both a lot at work.

对吧？

Right?

所以今天我们更侧重于如何在商务英语中使用这些表达，但你在日常对话中也会用到它们。

So we are focusing more on how to use those in business English today, but you will also use this in daily conversations as well.

所以一定要在商务英语播客和All Ears English上点击关注。

So be sure to hit follow right here on the Business English podcast and also over on All Ears English.

这两个播客里都有很多很棒的词汇，你在工作和日常对话中都能用得上。

There get so much great vocabulary on both of these podcasts that you can use both at work and in your daily conversations.

所以两个播客都记得关注一下。

So hit follow on both of our podcasts.

太棒了。

Awesome.

好的。

Alright.

是的，Aubrey，这个话题很适合商务场合，因为有时候你确实需要预防或者阻止坏事发生。

So, yeah, Aubrey, this topic is good for business situations because sometimes you have to prevent or just stop bad things from happening, of course.

对吧？

Right?

所以它可以用来避免或阻止几乎所有负面的事情。

So it can be avoiding or stopping almost anything negative.

这可能包括些什么情况呢，Aubrey？

What might this include, Aubrey?

对，比如同事或客户之间出现的沟通误会。

Yeah, maybe like a miscommunication between coworkers or clients.

如果你意识到了这种沟通误会，你就会想要去制止它。

If you become aware of some kind of miscommunication, you would want to put a stop to that.

你会想确保每个人都明白之前被误解的地方。

You would want to make sure everyone understands what was misunderstood.

我们赶紧把这事儿叫停吧，别让它越来越糟。

Let's put a stop to this so that it doesn't get worse.

对吧？

Right?

对。

Yeah.

确实。

For sure.

或者延迟，或者安全风险。

Or delays or security risks.

比如说，我们得停止处理我们收到的安全警报。

Like, we we have to put a stop to, an alert for security that we got.

我的意思是，收到那些警报的时候总是很吓人，就像，哦，可能有什么东西被入侵了。

I mean, it's always scary when you get those alerts, like, oh, something may have been compromised.

是的。

Yes.

而且这种情况越来越频繁。

And that's happening more and more.

我一直在看一些文章，说有了人工智能，人们要黑客入侵、拿到大家的密码变得容易太多了。

I've been reading articles about how with AI, it's becoming so much easier for people to like hack and get everyone's passwords.

我们真的得确保有双重认证，密码还要特别强。

We have to really make sure we have that two factor authentication, really strong passwords.

现在这个时代，这越来越重要了，对吧？

It's just more and more important in this day and age, right?

我们需要

We need to

阻止，阻止黑客这么容易就能入侵。

put a stop to a stop to How easy it is to hack

一切。

everything.

没错。

That's right.

对。

Right.

所以，但，对。

So but, yeah.

也可能是避免或阻止供应问题、产品事故，或者，哦，客户不满意。

It could be also avoiding or stopping sourcing issues or product mishaps or, oh, unhappy clients.

对，这挺有意思的。

Yeah, this is interesting.

工作中可能发生的事情太多了。

There are so many things at work that could happen.

甚至可能是不当行为。

Maybe even unproductive behavior.

如果你有下属，有人向你汇报，那么各种事情都可能导致效率低下。

If you have reports, someone that reports to you and something, all kinds of things can be unproductive.

如果某人要么没有完成任务，要么非常消极和挑剔。

If someone either isn't accomplishing their tasks or if they're being extremely negative and critical.

有各种各样的事情会营造出低效的环境。

There are all kinds of things that can create an unproductive environment.

如果你是那个人的主管，你需要采取行动来制止这种情况。

And if you are the supervisor of this person, you would need to do something to put a stop to it.

对，没错。

Yeah, Exactly.

那我们来说说怎么表达这个意思。

So let's talk about how to express this.

我们可以说“stop them from”，然后加上动词的ing形式。

So we can say stop them from and then add verb I n g.

这个用法是在你主动阻止某个人或某个群体做某个具体动作的时候用的。

So this is used when you actively prevent a person or group from doing a specific action.

那奥布里，这个听起来会是什么样的呢？

So how might that sound Aubrey?

好的，比如，我们需要阻止员工共享密码。

Yeah, for example, we need to stop employees from sharing passwords.

所以你看，直接宾语通常会放在动词和介词之间。

So as you can see, the direct object will often go between the verb and the preposition here.

所以我们有“stop employees”，对吧。

So we have stop employees Right.

分享密码。

From sharing passwords.

然后后面的部分

And then whatever at

就是我们要阻止他们做的事情。

the end is what we are stopping them from doing.

对。

Exactly.

或者再举一个例子。

Or here's another one.

经理介入，阻止团队错过截止日期。

The manager stepped in to stop the team from missing the deadline.

所以是阻止团队错过截止日期。

So stop the team from missing the deadline.

是的。

Yeah.

意思就是防止它发生。

And this means to prevent it from happening.

对吧？

Right?

如果我们阻止某件事发生，我们就是在防止它发生。

If we stop something from happening, we're preventing it from happening.

你也可以说，新的安全软件有助于阻止黑客访问员工账户。

You might also say new security software helps stop hackers from accessing employee accounts.

这差不多就是我们说的意思。

That's sort of what we were referring to.

对吧？

Right?

我们就是不想让那事发生。

We want to stop that from happening.

对，我们要阻止他们这么做。

We want to stop them from doing that.

没错。

Exactly.

或者我们需要更清晰的沟通，避免客户感到困惑。

Or we need clearer communication to stop clients from getting confused.

对，就是这样。

Yes, exactly.

所以你可以

So you can

看到，工作中有很多事情可能需要预防。

see there's so many things that might need to be prevented at work.

需要阻止它们发生。

Needs to be stopped from happening.

我们用这个短语动词来表示和“预防”相同的意思。

We use this phrasal verb to mean the same thing as prevent.

而且这在职场对话中也不算太随意。

And this is not too informal for work conversations.

我们经常这么说。

We say this a lot.

不是。

No.

对。

Right.

正是如此。

Exactly.

所以当我们用这个短语时，它通常有很多作用，但重点是预防某个具体的动作。

So when we use this phrase, it usually, it does a lot of things, but it focuses on preventing a specific action.

而且它通常后面会跟一个人或群体，再加上一个动作。

And it's usually followed by a person or a group plus an action.

正是如此。

Exactly.

我们说我们要阻止某个人或某个群体去做某件事。

We're saying either the person or the group that we're trying to prevent from a certain action.

然后我们就说出那个动作。

Then we're naming the action.

我们说的是需要被阻止的事情。

We're naming what needs to be prevented.

没错。

Exactly.

听起来确实很直接、很实用。

It does sound very direct and practical.

对。

Yeah.

我们经常用它，就像刚才说的，在事情发生之前进行预防，这在工作中太重要了，能够提前发现苗头，看到可能发生的问题，在它们造成麻烦之前就避免掉。是的。

We often use it, like we were saying, for prevention before something can happen, which is so vital at work to be able to catch the things, to see things coming that we can prevent before they ever cause a problem in the Yeah.

先。

First

对，没错。

Yeah, exactly.

很多英语学习者都注重语法。

Many English learners focus on grammar.

他们希望自己的句子是正确的，但流利不仅仅是正确。

They want their sentences to be correct, but fluency isn't just about being correct.

流利更在于听起来自然、选对表达、不用在心里逐句翻译就能快速回应。

It's about sounding natural, choosing the right phrase, responding quickly without translating every thought in your head.

这就是为什么有些人语法规则学了很多，但一开口聊天还是会觉得不自在。

That's why someone can know a lot of grammar rules and still feel uncomfortable in conversations.

真正的流利来自于理解表达模式、语气和地道的说法。

Real fluency comes from understanding patterns, tone, and natural expressions.

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网址是 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

That's allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

好，Michelle，咱们再来分享一个短语。

All right, Michelle, let's share another phrase.

就像开头说的，你也可以用 put a stop to something。

Like we said at the beginning, you can also say put a stop to something.

这个表达用来表示你想终止或阻止某项活动、某种行为、趋势，或者持续发生的状况。

So this is used when you want to end or prevent an activity or maybe behavior, a trend, an ongoing situation.

我们来举个例子

Let's share a

举几个这方面的例子。

few examples of this one.

好的。

Okay.

所以这家公司正试图叫停那些没必要的会议。

So the company is trying to put a stop to unnecessary meetings.

这挺好的。

That's good.

完全正确。

Exactly right.

如果的事能发邮件解决，那就让它发邮件。

That's if ever it can be an email, let it be an email.

我们让不必要的会议停下来吧。

Let's put a stop to unnecessary meetings.

没人有时间搞这个。

No one's got time for that.

或者CEO想制止职场八卦。

Or the CEO wants to put a stop to workplace gossip.

是的，这可能有毒，对吧？

Yes, this can be toxic, right?

这在职场上可能真的很有破坏性。

This can be really destructive in a workplace.

所以我们常常寻找那些可能造成负面情绪或消极态度的事情，并想要制止它。

So often we're looking for those things that might be creating negativity or bad attitudes and we want to put a stop to it.

对，对，没错。

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

或者还有另一个例子。

Or here's another one.

设立惩罚措施确实能有效制止迟交报告的行为。

Creating penalties really put a stop to the late reports.

我们作为妈妈都知道，对孩子的不良行为设定严重后果可以制止这种行为。

We both know as moms that having serious consequences for children's behavior can put a stop to the behavior.

对吧？

Right?

如果没有后果，孩子就会想，那我显然应该再犯一次。

If there is no consequence, then children are like, I should do that again, obviously.

没错。

Right.

肯定会这样。

It will happen.

没错。

Exactly.

但是呢，当我们用这个短语的时候，它更强调的是结束一个正在进行的状况或者反复出现的行为。

So but, yeah, when we use this phrase, it focuses more on ending an ongoing situation or repeated behavior.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Exactly.

对。

Yeah.

它通常听起来比“阻止某人做某事”更有力度，也更正式一些。

It often sounds slightly stronger or more formal than stop someone from doing something.

对吧？

Right?

比如说，米歇尔，如果你跟我讲工作上的一个问题，然后我说，“你得制止这事儿”，那听起来确实更有力度。

So for example, Michelle, if you're telling me about a problem at work and I say, you need to put a stop to that, it does sound more strong.

更强烈。

More intense.

更强烈。

More intense.

那你就应该阻止他们这么做，对吧？

Then you should stop them from doing that, right?

有趣的是，我们使用的不同介词确实会营造出这种严肃的语气。

It's interesting how the minor, the different prepositions we use do create this tone of seriousness.

对。

Yeah.

而且这在商务、新闻以及专业讨论中也很常见。

And also this is common in business or the news and also professional discussions.

所以这真的很有用。

So this is this is really useful.

这个短语后面可以接名词。

This phrase can be be followed by a noun.

比如，新政策制止了客户投诉。

So for example, the new policy put a stop to customer complaints.

没错。

Exactly.

我们确实这样用。

We you do.

我们经常这样用。

We use it this way a lot.

对吧？

Right?

我们在分享某件事是如何结束的。

We're sharing how something ended.

而不是说，你知道，它被这个结束了。

And instead of saying like, you know, it was ended by this.

我们不会那样说。

We don't really say that.

我们会说“put a stop to”。

We'll say put a stop to.

我们会说是什么结束了它，比如新政策，然后说“put a stop to”，接着再说出被终止的那个名词。

We'll say what ended it, the new policy, and then put a stop to, and then we share the noun of whatever it was that was ended.

对。

Exactly.

是的。

Yeah.

或者后面也可以跟一个短语。

Or so a phrase could also follow.

所以管理层想制止新员工在会议期间使用个人手机。

So management wants to put a stop to new to employees using personal phones during meetings.

对。

Yeah.

我明白了。

I see that.

对，因为这里有趣的是，它可以停在名词上，对吧？

Yeah, because this is interesting where it could stop with the noun, right?

管理层想阻止员工使用个人手机。

Management wants to put a stop to employees using personal phones.

但这里我们有一个完整的短语，因为不仅仅是关于使用手机。

But here we have a full phrase because it's not just about using phones.

他们可以在午餐会上使用手机，想更具体地说明什么时候需要停止这种情况。

They can use phones on We're a luncheon wanting to be more specific about when that needs to stop happening.

所以我们这里有完整的短语：在会议期间使用个人手机。

We So have the whole phrase here, using personal phones during meetings.

对。

Yeah.

而且如果你在它后面用动词，就用动名词。

And if you use a verb after it, use the gerund.

也就是动词加ing。

So verb plus ing.

所以管理层想要制止过度花费。

So management is trying to put a stop to overspending.

动词加 ING。

Verb plus ING.

没错。

Exactly.

所以在这里它是当名词用的。

So it's used there as a noun.

动名词就是我们把一个动词加上 ING。

This is a gerund is when we take a verb, we add ING.

变成了名词。

Big noun.

是名词。

It's a noun.

对。

It's a Yeah.

所以，任何你想停止的事情，就用停止加ING的形式。

So anything you wanna stop, stopping.

停止超支，停止批评，对吧？

Stop overspending, stop criticizing, right?

我们加ING把它变成动名词，或者说我们想制止在通话中打断客户的行为。

We add that ING to make it a gerund or we're trying to put a stop to interrupting clients during calls.

那这就是一个短语，因为你其实可以直接说“制止打断”。

Then it's a phrase because you should, should, could just say put a stop to interrupting.

但我们在这里加了一个短语，一个动名词短语，就是“在通话中打断客户”。

But instead, we're adding that to a phrase, a gerund phrase here, interrupting clients during calls.

我们想更具体地说明打断不应该发生在什么时候。

We want to be more specific about when the interrupting should not happen.

是的，没错。

Yes, exactly.

很有用。

Useful.

那么，Aubrey，你愿意把这一切整合到一个角色扮演中吗？

So Aubrey, would you like to put this all together in a role play?

我们开始吧。

Let's do it.

你和我在这里是同事，讨论工作中的问题。

You and I are coworkers discussing problems at work here.

哎呀。

Uh-oh.

我先开始。

I'll start off.

哦，不。

Oh, no.

你先来。

You go ahead.

好的。

Okay.

你听说了吗？他们要改费用审批的流程。

Did you hear they're changing the process to approve expenses?

对。

Yeah.

好像是想刹住几个部门超支的情况。

Apparently they're trying to put a stop to overspending in a few departments.

说实话，这挺合理的。

Honestly, that makes sense.

有些团队每个星期都订最后一刻的机票。

Some teams are booking last minute flights every week.

我知道。

I know.

他们还加了新软件，防止员工重复提交报销。

They also added new software to stop employees from submitting duplicate expenses.

那应该会很有帮助。

That should help a lot.

对。

Yeah.

而且还不止这些变化。

And those aren't the only changes.

他们还想阻止不必要的会议。

They're also trying to put a stop to unnecessary meetings.

好。

Good.

我日历上一半都是会议。

Half my calendar is meetings.

那些本来发封邮件就能说清楚。

That could have been simple emails.

我也是。

Same here.

我很高兴经理在努力让大家别再浪费时间。

I'm happy the manager is trying to stop everyone from wasting time.

哦，是的。

Oh, yeah.

这很好。

This is good.

这是工作中很常见的对话。

Very common conversation to have at work.

对吧？

Right?

我们都在努力节省时间。

We're all trying to save time.

我们常常都有同样的烦恼。

We often all have the same frustrations.

是的。

Yeah.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

没错。

Exactly.

所以这个讨论很不错。

So this is a good discussion here.

所以你说，对。

So you said, yeah.

显然，他们正在试图

Apparently, they're trying

来制止几个部门的超支。

to put a stop to overspending in a few departments.

没错。

Exactly.

所以这里我们看到了那个动名词，overspending，put a stop to，动词加上ing，overspending。

So here we have that gerund, overspending, put a stop to, verb plus ing, overspending.

然后我们把它变成一个短语，因为不是所有的超支，虽然也许目标就是阻止它，但我们指的是几个部门的超支。

And then we're making it a phrase here because not overspending at all, though maybe that is the goal to stop it, but we're specifying overspending in a few departments.

所以不是每个部门都有这个问题，只有少数几个部门。

So not every department has this issue, just a few of them.

对。

Exactly.

然后你说他们还加了新软件，来阻止员工重复提交报销。

And then you said they also added new software to stop employees from submitting duplicate expenses.

是的。

Yes.

这部分内容真的很棒。

And this is such a great chunk.

好在有多种方式可以表达这个意思。

It's nice you have multiple ways to do this.

对吧？

Right?

比如 put a stop to something，就是阻止某件事，那要阻止的是谁呢？

Put a stop to something, stop and then who needs to be stopped?

阻止员工做某事，然后是他们正在做的事情。

Stop employees from and then the action, what they're doing.

阻止他们提交重复的报销。

Stop them from submitting duplicate expenses.

然后我说他们也在试图阻止不必要的会议。

And then I said they're also trying to put a stop to unnecessary meetings.

所以这里我们有另一个，put a stop to，然后接名词，他们试图阻止的事情，一个动作或行为。

So here we have that other one, put a stop to, and then the noun, thing that they're trying to stop, an action or a behavior.

对。

Yep.

然后最后你说，我很高兴经理试图阻止大家浪费时间。

And then here at the end you said, I'm happy the manager is trying to stop everyone from wasting time.

没错。

Exactly.

你注意到我们举的所有例子中，主语和代词都可以不同，对吧？

You've noticed with all of the examples we're giving, it can be a different pronoun, a different subject, right?

对。

Right.

阻止他们，阻止她，阻止所有人。

Stop them from, stop her from, stop everyone from.

这完全取决于你在说谁。

All depends about who you're talking about.

这取决于你谈论的对象。

It depends on who you're talking about.

什么

What

奥布里，我们还能看哪些其他集数？

other episodes can we check out Aubrey?

提到了《All Ears English》第2600集。

Mentioned All Ears English 2600.

别错过那一集。

Don't miss that one.

那些不会妨碍你用英语交流的语法，还有其他我们用来表达这个意思的短语。

Grammar that won't keep you from connecting in English that had other phrases that we use to do this.

“Keep someone from doing something”和这个意思非常接近。

Keep someone from doing something has a very similar meaning to this.

阻止他们，让他们别做某件事。

Prevent them, stop them from doing something.

另外，在商务英语这边，别忘了听第561期。

And then also right here on business English, don't miss five sixty one.

你在工作中犯过错吗？

Do you make mistakes at work?

用五个副词来描述发生了什么，因为我们都会犯错，你需要能用英语聊这件事。

Five adverbs to articulate what happened because we all make mistakes and you need to be able to connect about it in English.

没错。

That's right.

好的。

All right.

奥布里，我们是不是该结束这期节目了？

Aubrey, should we put a stop to this episode?

是的。

Yes.

米歇尔，我想阻止你让它变得更长。

I want to stop you from making it go longer, Michelle.

是的。

Yes.

好了，各位。

All right, guys.

感谢收听。

Thanks for listening.

奥布里，谢谢你今天和我聊天。

And Aubrey, thanks for chatting with me today.

是的。

Yes.

太好了。

Awesome.

我们下次见。

We'll see you guys next time.

好的。

Alright.

感谢收听《商务英语》，这是专为你打造的一档播客，适合志在高远、全球发展的职场人士。

Thank you for listening to Business English, a podcast just for you, the high achieving global professional.

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Or tap the link in the show notes.

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Remember, we believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.

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