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哈尔滨的安晓丹问了下面这个问题：“我知道‘The boss fired his secretary’，我可以使用 sacked 替换 fired 吗？”下面是给她的答案。

An Xiaodan from Harbin asks the following question. I know the sentence, ‘the boss fired his secretary’, can I use sacked instead of fired? Yes you can. To fire someone and to sack someone are the same, they are synonymous and can be interchanged. There are some other words too, that express termination of employment. If you are in the armed forces, rather than being fired, you are discharged. If you quit a job or a position, you leave or give up a job. It is different to fire or sack because you leave the job through your own decision. If you are laid off by your company, then your services are no longer needed, perhaps because there is not enough business for your company. Another way of expressing this is to be made redundant or to lose your job. When you reach a certain age (65 for men, 60 for women in the UK) you will stop work or retire. You then become a pensioner and can claim your weekly state pension. If you have no job, you are described as being unemployed. In the UK unemployed people can claim a weekly sum of money from the Government. Someone who does this is described as being on the dole.

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Glossary fire (v.)   解雇 sack (v.)   解雇 synonymous (adj.)   同义的 discharge (v.)   使退伍 lay off   解雇 redundant (adj.)   多余的 retire (v.)   退休 pensioner (n.)   领退休金者 pension (n.)   退休金 unemployed (adj.)   失业的 dole (n.)   失业救济金

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