My friend put me in a white-collar slot. 我朋友使我从事一份白领工作。
It's not easy to slot all the young school-leavers in to suitable jobs. 给所有年轻的学校毕业生安排合适的工作并不是件容易的事情。
slot slotted, slotting
[ noun ]
a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
<noun.communication> he developed a version of slot grammar
a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail)
<noun.artifact> he put a quarter in the slot
a time assigned on a schedule or agenda
<noun.time> the TV program has a new time slot an aircraft landing slot
a position in a hierarchy or organization
<noun.state> Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks she beat some tough competition for the number one slot
the trail of an animal (especially a deer)
<noun.object> he followed the deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees
(computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board
<noun.artifact> the PC had three slots for additional memory
a slot machine that is used for gambling
<noun.artifact> they spend hours and hours just playing the slots [ verb ]
assign a time slot
<verb.cognition> slot a television program
Slot \Slot\, n. [LG. & D. slot a lock, from a verb meaning to close., to shut, D. sluiten; akin to G. schliessen, OHG. sliozan, OFries. sl?ta, and probably to L. claudere. Cf. {Close}, {Sluice}.] 1. A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
2. A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
Slot \Slot\, v. t. [See {Slot} a bar.] To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Slot \Slot\, n. [Cf. Icel. sl??, and E. sleuth.] The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. --Milton.
As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. --Sir W. Scott.
The midseason replacement series reached No. 1 in the A.C. Nielsen ratings for the second week of March, and a one-hour rerun special knocked venerable "60 Minutes" out of the Top 10 slot.
He said that the company "is aggressively working" on expanding its product line by developing reel-type slot machines.
NBC, shuffling its prime time schedule slightly, said the popular "ALF" series will move from Monday to Saturday at 8 p.m. EST as of March 3, and "My Two Dads" will fill its Monday slot starting March 5.
By September, the 75 gambling halls had 1,900 slot machines, 91 blackjack games and 27 poker games, he said.
The addition of a reel-type slot machine "would complete our product line," he said.
Atkins found the $5 in his mail slot Wednesday from Ed Dettenheim of Haynesville, La.
He gave the series a big boost with a coveted time slot, 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, "hammocked" between the top-rated ABC sitcom "Who's the Boss?" and "thirtysomething."
Santa Daumann, a 59-year-old grandmother from the New York City borough of Brooklyn, won more than $1 million Friday playing slot machines at Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino.
The features by Barber and Littlefield still air in the old sports time slot and still are among the most popular features on "Morning Edition," Ferrante said.
Comic Jackie Mason's "Chicken Soup" on ABC went from No. 14 to 11th place in the ratings, while another ABC show, "Doogie Howser, M.D.," went up six notches from 33rd to 27th place in its regular time slot.
Mr. Fowler's departure opens one slot on the five-person commission.
Fernandez, whose formal title is Vice President of the Council of Ministers, has held both jobs for more than two decades, and the decision to replace him in the education slot was taken by the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party, Notimex said.
And even with its rating dip, "Dear John" improved NBC's Wednesday night slot, finishing two ratings points ahead of the show it replaced, `My Two Dads," which moved to Sunday.
The new Monday comedy series, in which Harper plays a city manager with a 19-year-old daughter, will go in the current time slot of "The Famous Teddy Z." CBS said that show will return in a new time and date to be announced later.
Pro-gambling forces say the reservation's six casinos, where slot machines, craps, bingo and other games draw busloads of patrons from the Northeast, are an economic boon.
Tartikoff had said he expected "Grand" to get higher ratings than "Dear John," which had been getting a lower rating than "Cheers" in its time slot immediately afterward.
The trouble is, if "USA Today" doesn't do well in coming weeks, he may have a hard time convincing any New York station to put it in an attractive time slot.
New England claimed the top slot for the fifth straight year, with income of $20,013, 22 percent above the national average.
Returning to Indiana Monday night, Quayle told about 2,000 supporters nearby Fort Wayne that he was "finally at home" after a campaign that began when he was picked for the No. 2 slot at the Republican convention in August.
International Game has another lawsuit against Bally, charging patent infringement on the method in which jackpots are accumulated on its slot machine.
A one-hour "America's Most Wanted" special came in ahead of ABC and NBC in the 8-9 p.m. time slot.
The Taj will use a free coin program to boost its slot operations, which have yet to recover since change machines broke down during the opening, Tracy said.
The $4.6 million Megabucks jackpot _ which links slot machines in dozens of casinos across the state to accumulate big jackpots _ was the largest payoff in Las Vegas history but didn't surpass the Nevada record of $6.8 million won in Reno.
Revenue from slot machines in Nevada has nearly doubled in the past six years, to $2.8 billion in 1989.
An Emmy Award winning American documentary by Robert S. Levi starts tonight in the Omnibus slot (BBC 1, 10.55) and ends next week.
The drought has come home to Reno, but its slot machine bells still jangle and chips still fly across its felt gambling tables.
Ahmed's English classes can handle 250 people and there is never an empty slot.
The extent to which the BBC is still locked into the political fashions of the 1960s can be judged from the fact that the Adam Smith Institute is regarded as a suitable candidate for the access slot Open Space.
The chairmanship of the Republican National Committee also is open, but Boschwitz said that slot did not interest him.
The Nationalist Movement, a Mississippi-based white supremacy group, has been given a parade permit and a two-hour slot on Sunday afternoon in conjunction with its annual convention.