People who work in offices are as “white-collar workers” for the simple reason that they traditionally wear a white shirt with a collar and a tie to go to work.
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- 蓝领，白领，金领 are word-for-word translations from English “blue collar”, “white collar”, “gold collar”.
- If the shirt is white, the tie should be white.
- Which of the following match are correct? A: Tailcoat ----- White Tie B: T-shirt and jeans ----- Business casual C: Suit------ Black Tie D: Polo shirt ------- Casual wear
- Manual workers often receive much higher ______ than people who work in offices A: gains B: fees C: payments D: wages
- You must have heard of white- and blue-collar workers, and possibly gold-collar workers (1) . Recently a new color of collar is (2) its way into China. It’s green. A typical green collar is well educated like a white collar but (3) strong like a blue collar. They are mostly born in the 70s or 80s and live in one of China’s big cities. Their (4) maygosomething like this: turn off the mobile phone after work, eat only (5) food, meet friends everyweekend, and like to help poor people. Green collars even have their (6) club. In Beijing, the Green CollarClub is for people who want to “be happy, healthy and helpful”. They not only(7) in their careers, butalso like to enjoy life. They have a lot of (8) , but do not fall slave to it.