VOA常速英语:US Worker Bees Toil in Cubicles

check out看看,试试
例句：You should check out that new movie. It's great.
你应该看那部新电影。很棒的。

2. Fortune magazine, which writes about the people who make, well, a fortune, once focused on average "worker bees” in the corporate world who sit inside these "modules," as they're called, separated by partitions, at built-in desks with eye-level shelves, all easily interchangeable.

focus on对(某事或做某事)予以注意
例句：Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas.
许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。

3. As Fortune lays out the story, Robert Propst, a young industrial designer in the Midwest state of Michigan, dreamed up the office cubicle in 1968.

lay out陈设; 展开; 设计
例句：The goods for sale were attractively laid out.
供出售的商品都陈列了出来, 极引人注目。
dream up想起, 想象出(不寻常的事物); 凭空设想
例句：In his spare time, he always dreams up new stories.
在业余时间, 他经常编新故事。

4. It seemed like everyone below the rank of vice president soon worked in one of these office boxes, identical to the next one save for the photos of the family and dog.
seemed like仿佛…似的
例句：It seemed like a good idea.
那似乎是个好主意。