get laid off

基本解释

Plants get left behind when people quit, get laid off, and so on and many times coworkers just toss them out.
当人们辞职、被解雇，或是以其他方式离开的时候，往往不会带走那些植物。很多时候同事只是把它们一扔了事。
Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
《今日美国》的一项调查发现，联邦雇员的工作保障率如此之高，以至于在许多机构，员工被解雇的几率比自然死亡的几率还低。
I'm not saying that if you're overweight you are going to get laid off, but you know employers are looking for every little excuse to get rid of people, so looking good is a great defense.
我不是说你超重了就要被解雇，但是你知道这样的员工总是找各种理由远离人群，而看起来好看是一种很好的防御。

Originally, employees at a real-life struggling company would cast their votes for who should get laid off.
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External hires are also much more likely to get laid off than are those promoted from within.
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So if you work in that sector, you could get laid off.
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