get laid off

基本解釋

Plants get left behind when people quit, get laid off, and so on and many times coworkers just toss them out.
當人們辭職、被解雇，或是以其他方式離開的時候，往往不會帶走那些植物。很多時候同事只是把它們一扔了事。
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.
《今日美國》的一項調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，聯(lián)邦雇員的工作保障率如此之高，以至于在許多機構，員工被解雇的幾率比自然死亡的幾率還低。
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.
我不是說你超重了就要被解雇，但是你知道這樣的員工總是找各種理由遠離人群，而看起來好看是一種很好的防御。

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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