It was his fourth pink slip in two years.

这是他在两年内收到的第四份解雇通知书。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I managed to slip in a few jokes.

我设法穿插了几个笑话。

《牛津词典》

"Research has found that women negotiate higher salaries for others than they do for themselves," he says, adding that people slip in and out of decision roles.

他表示：“研究发现，女性总是为他人而不是为自己争取更高的薪水。”他补充说，人们总是反复于决策者与被决策者这两个角色中。

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There are different kinds of faults. In this case,the damage was caused by movement of a "strike-slip fault."

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

He said that "a couple of times" he has worried about being given a pink slip - in other words, worried about being sacked.

BBC: Mitt Romney: Is the gaffe really a gaffe?

Technology executives in particular had plenty to apologize for this past year--from defective products to slip-ups in how they handled private data collected via the Internet.

FORBES: How Silicon Valley Says 'Sorry'

And what will they turn on -- a personality quirk like Gore sighing impatiently during a debate with Bush in 2000, a factual slip-up as in 1976 when President Ford said Poland was not under control of Soviet Union, or a deeper discussion on an important issue?

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