sabbaticals

Transitions between stages could be marked with sabbaticals as people find them rest and recharge their health, re-invest in their relationships, or improve their skills.

可以用休假作为每个阶段间的过渡，人们可以找到时间休息、恢复健康、重新投资他们的人脉、或提高他们的技能。

He took a year's sabbatical from the Foreign Office

他向外交部请了一年的假。

Many organizations bring in contract employees to fill in for people on vacation, or for people who have timed longer leaves of absence like sabbaticals to coincide with summer.

许多公司都需要招聘临时员工，填补休假员工的职位空缺；有些员工为在夏季多休几天，特意安排了休假时间。

Academics take sabbaticals every few years to gain experience.

一些年前大学里面实行休假年以增加经验。

the first sabbatical came out of thinking of that one single year.

我们的设计意念俱源自我们休假的那一年。

He's on sabbatical.

他正休假。

He's been on sabbatical writing a novel.

他一直在休假写一部小说。

Professors are seen on the whole as lazy, self-serving, interested only in sabbaticals, prizing only their own research, and profoundly uninterested in teaching students.

所有的教授看起来都是既懒惰又自私，只对休假感兴趣，只重视自己的研究，而对教书一点兴趣都没有。

The measures include voluntary buyout packages for1,000 workers, as well as wider use of short-term unpaid leaves and sabbaticals.

其中包括1000名工人的自愿离职买断计划，以及在员工中更为广泛地使用短期无薪休假和公休假。