职场生活的精彩之处，就在于甭管什么样的鸟儿你都能碰上……

这不，前两天从总公司空降下来一个“总助”，仗着自己的特殊背景，没事儿就跑到我们业务部门来发号施令，随便差遣大家给她跑腿儿，那股子劲儿别提让人多来气了！

得嘞，这种人还是少跟她置气，还是好好学英语吧，在英语里还真有这么一句短语~"boss around"，指的就是对某人指手画脚、随意差遣别人的那种颐指气使。其实也很好理解，这就像是“老板在周围”一样似的，不就是对别人使唤来使唤去的嘛！

boss around = boss about

na. 颐指气使；差遣；呼来唤去; 对某人指手画脚

【En】To give orders to someone; to keep telling someone what to do. 给某人下命令；不断地告诉某人该做什么。To tell someone what to do. This phrase is often used to emphasize someone's behavior as controlling and/or unwarranted. 告诉某人该做什么。这个短语通常用来强调某人控制欲强或者毫无根据的行为。

• I hate when my co-worker bosses me around like she's in charge of the place.

我讨厌我的同事把我使唤来使唤去，好像她是这里的负责人似的。

• Kaylie is always bossing her friends around and making them do whatever she wants.

凯莉总是对她的朋友呼来喝去，让他们做她想做的事。

• Milena can't stop bossing people around, it's just her nature to be in control.

米莱娜总是对人呼来喝去的，控制他人是她的天性。

• The head chef is always bossing around the waiters at the restaurant, as if they aren't working hard enough already.

厨师长总是对餐厅里的服务员颐指气使，好像他们还不够努力似的。

• Even though he is the captain of the team, I still don't think he should be able to boss us around the way he does.

虽然他是队长，我还是认为他不能这样指挥我们。

• Samantha always got so upset whenever her manager bossed her around, making her feel like she wasn't doing a good job at work.

每当经理对萨曼莎指手画脚时，她总是很不高兴，让她觉得工作做得不好。

• The principal bossed Mrs. Brown around so much that she finally got tired of it and quit in the middle of the school year.

校长对布朗太太颐指气使，以致她终于厌烦了，到了学年中就辞职了。

• I don't like it when you boss me around when I'm gardening, like I can't figure out how to pull a weed on my own!

我不喜欢在我种花的时候你对我指手画脚，好像我自己都不知道怎么除草似的!

• The doctors are always bossing around the nurses, especially when they are new.

医生们总是对护士颐指气使，尤其是新来的护士。

• I feel weird bossing around my new employee because she is so much older than me.

我觉得对我的新雇员发号施令很奇怪，因为她比我大得多。

【活学活用 give an example】

• Stop bossing me around. I'm not your employee.

别对我呼来喝去的。我不是你的雇员。

• Captain Smith bosses around the whole crew. That's his job.

史密斯船长指挥全体船员。这是他的工作。

• You can't boss me around just because Mom isn't here!

你不能因为妈妈不在就对我发号施令!

• My friend at work got promoted, so now he thinks he can boss me around.

我同事升职了，所以他现在觉得可以对我颐指气使了。

• My older brothers and sisters are always bossing me around.

我的哥哥姐姐们总是差遣我干这干那的。

• What gives you the right to boss around everyone on the playground?

你凭什么对操场上的每个人颐指气使?

• David complained that his older sister was always bossing him around.

大卫抱怨说他姐姐总是对他呼来喝去的。

• She waved her friend over as if bossing around a maid.

她挥手示意她的朋友过去，好像在对女仆发号施令似的。

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