sack
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they sack | |
| he / she / it sacks | |
| past simple sacked | |
| past participle sacked | |
| -ing form sacking |
- sack somebody (especially British English, informal)
to dismiss somebody from a job 解僱；炒鱿魚 Collocations UnemploymentTopics Social issuesc1Unemployment 失業 Losing your job 失業 - lose your job
失業 - (British English) become/be made redundant
被裁減 - be offered/take voluntary redundancy/early retirement
被要求／選擇自願裁退／提前退休 - face/be threatened with dismissal/(British English) the sack/(British English) compulsory redundancy
面臨被解職／被裁／強制裁員；受到解職／被裁／強制裁員的威脅 - dismiss/fire/ (especially British English) sack an employee/a worker/a manager
解僱僱員／工人／經理 - lay off staff/workers/employees
解僱員工／工人／僱員 - (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English) retrench workers
縮減人員 - cut/reduce/downsize/slash the workforce
裁減員工 - (British English) make staff/workers/employees redundant
裁員
Being unemployed 失業；待業；下崗 - be unemployed/out of work/out of a job
失業 - seek/look for work/employment
找工作 - be on/collect/draw/get/receive (both British English) unemployment benefit/jobseeker’s allowance
領取失業補助金 - be/go/live/sign (British English, informal) on the dole
領取失業救濟金 - claim/draw/get (British English, informal) the dole
領取失業救濟金 - be on/qualify for (North American English) unemployment (compensation)
領取／有資格領取失業補償金 - be/go/live/depend (North American English) on welfare
靠社會保障金過活 - collect/receive (North American English) welfare
領取社會保障金 - combat/tackle/cut/reduce unemployment
防止／解決／減少失業
- lose your job
- sack something
(of an army, etc., especially in the past) to destroy things and steal property in a town or building （尤指舊時軍隊等）破壞，劫掠 Rome was sacked by the Goths in 410. 羅馬在 410 年遭到哥特人的洗劫。 The army rebelled and sacked the palace. 軍隊造反，洗劫了宮殿。
- sack somebody
(in American football 美式足球 to knock down the quarterback 擒殺（四分衛） The quarterback was sacked on the 45 yard line, and it was first down for the other team. 四分衛在45碼線上被解僱了，這對另一隊來說是第一次。
Word Originverb sense 1 and verb sense 3 Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. Sense 1 of the verb dates from the mid 19th cent. verb sense 2 mid 16th cent.: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder.