business经典引文

1. 商业，行业
2. 企业，公司
3. 商店，商行
4. 职责
5. 权利
6. 事务，业务，事
7. 营业（额），交易（量）
8. 本分，分内事
9. 生意
10. 事业

1. [U][C]日常工作; 职业 one's usual occupation; profession
2. [U]商业,生意,贸易 buying and selling; commerce; trade
3. [C]店铺,商行 commercial house; firm; shop
4. [S]公务,事务 task; duty
5. [U]演员舞台的动作、表情等 action on stage
6. [U]怪事,勾当 difficult matter; affair

1. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it;

   "he bought his brother's business"
   "a small mom-and-pop business"
   "a racially integrated business concern"
   

2. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects;

   "computers are now widely used in business"
   

3. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

   "he's not in my line of business"
   

4. a rightful concern or responsibility;

   "it's none of your business"
   "mind your own business"
   

5. an immediate objective;

   "gossip was the main business of the evening"
   

6. the volume of commercial activity;

   "business is good today"
   "show me where the business was today"
   

7. business concerns collectively;

   "Government and business could not agree"
   

8. customers collectively;

   "they have an upper class clientele"
   

9. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect;

   "his business with the cane was hilarious"
   

• What is your business here so late to Night?

  出自：Bunyan

• The Prime Minister..believed that the primary business of government was to administer the existing order.

  出自：W. S. Churchill

邻里

business

A：Here’s my (card/business card/ name card).
这是我的（名片卡/名片/名片）。

B：Great, thanks.
好的，谢谢。

学校

B：I’m applying for (law school/business school/ graduate school).
我在申请（法律学校/商业学校/研究所）。

A：Sounds hard. Good luck.
听起来很难申请，祝你好运。

取消约会

business

A：I‘m sorry, but I have to cancel out luncheon appointment.
真抱歉，不过我不得不取消我们午餐的约会。

B：I‘m sorry to hear that.
真遗憾。

A：I have pressingbusiness to attend to .
我有紧急的事情要处理。

B：No problem. we‘ll make it later in the month .
没关系，这个月改天再说吧。

他因事已去伦敦。

误 He has gone to London on a business.

正 He has gone to London on business.

析 可说on business(因事),也可说on a little business(因一件小事),但不可说on a business。

她的丈夫是个实业家。

误 Her husband is a businessman.

正 Her husband is a man of business.

析 a businessman的意思是“商人”, man of business的意思是“实业家”。

你想干什么,是经商还是当律师?

误 Which do you want to do, go to business or become a lawyer?

正 Which do you want to do, go into business or become a lawyer?

析 go to business是“去上班”的意思, go into business才是“经商”的意思。

非公莫入。

误 No admittance except in business.

正 No admittance except on business.

析 in business的意思是“经商”, on business才是“因公,因事”的意思。