BEC高级真题词汇解析：”natural wastage”

Natural wastage：a reduction in the number of people who work for an organization that is achieved by not replacing those people who leave. （自然流失：职工退休、退职并末寻找替补而引起的减员过程）

例句：woman：Then we’ll look into that in depth next time. Next, we need more support staff, so sales people can spend more time selling. What do you think? （参考译文：那么下次我们再对这个问题进行深入讨论，接下来的问题是：我们需要更多的后勤支持人员，这样销售员工能够腾出更多的时间，你怎么看？）

Man：Yes, ideally. But we’ll never get an increase in staffing levels though. （参考译文：理想情况是这样。不过，那样的话我们将无法增加人员编制了。）

Woman:：You’re right. There’s already a policy of cuts through natural wastage. There’s no point trying to change it. （参考译文：你说的没错，现有的政策已经考虑到克服自然流失的问题，没有必要再作改变了。）

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