1. Legal Brief
🧡 Education Dept. tells employers to stop garnishing wages
garnish: v. decorate, embellish (something especially food.)
n. a small amount of food used to decorate other food.
通常情况下表示装饰。然而,当和wage一同使用的时候表示扣押工资,
eg. wage garnishment: the most common type of garnishment, is the process of deducting money from an employee's monetary compensation (including salary), usually as a result of a court order. Wage garnishments may continue until the entire debt is paid or arrangements are made to pay off the debt.
So when the garnish connect with wage, it also means 扣押
🧡 Texas says it won't pay after ransomware attake
ransomware: a type of malicious(恶意的) software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. 勒索软件
2. Leadership SmartBrief
🧡 US regulators: Banks were resilient through crisis, but uncertainty looms
loom: If an unpleasant event looms, it is likely to happen soon.
eg. the threat of closure looms over the workforce.
🧡 OCC weighs national license for cryptocurrency firms
cryptocurrency: 加密货币
🧡 Pandemic upends the beef industry's supply and demand
upend: to affect drastically
🧡 How do you deal with procrastinators on your team
procrastinator: 拖延症患者!!
procrastinate: 拖延!!!
----> extention: slack off 懈怠, 放松
🧡 What is the biggest impediment to you making a big change in the way you work?
impediment: a hindrance or obstruction in doing something. 阻碍
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