business的解释

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。

business, affair, concern, matter, thing

这组词在含糊地指那些所做的事时意义相近,常可互换。例如：

It is a regretful affair〔business, concern, matter, thing〕.这是一件遗憾的事。

I don't talk to her about private affairs〔business, concerns, matters, things〕.我从不和她谈私事。

它们之间的区别在于：

1.从模糊程度上看, affair＜matter＜thing, thing的词义最不确切,常可用在有意使概念含混不清的场合。例如：

How did you find things in America?你觉得美国怎样?

2.从含义上看, affair强调运行或操作过程,如一道程序,一笔交易,一个行动,一项事业等。business强调职责关系,例如：

It is her business to take good care of the baby.看护好这个婴儿是她的职责。

concern强调利害相关,例如：

It is no concern of mine.此事与我无关。

matter强调必须考虑和处理,例如：

We have a lot of matters to do.我们有许多事情要做。

thing则是一般用语,口语中常表示说话内容预先未考虑好或说话者力图掩饰自己的观点,例如：

I've another thing to talk with you.我还有一件事跟你说。

3.从用法上看, business不能用复数,而affair在指重大的或头绪较多的事务时则需要用复数。

4.从搭配范围上看,与foreign、international、state等词连用时只能用affair,在短语have an affair with sb (与某人有不正当男女关系)中也只能用affair。在指商业上的生意和活动或指“公事”“正事”时只能用business,例如：

It's a pleasure to do business with you.很高兴和你做生意。

Business before pleasure.公事比娱乐要紧。

口语中作“出了毛病”“失常”解时,只能用matter而不能用affair和business,例如：

What's the matter with you?你怎么啦?

在泛指“东西”“物品”时,用affair和thing均可。例如：

And these Tubes were convenient things〔affairs〕.而这地下铁道是非常方便的东西。

business, industry

industry和business的区别在于:industry既可以作可数名词又可以作不可数名词,而business只能作不可数名词。industry指整个行业或所有的工业,范围广,而business只指从事商品流通活动,包括以物易物、购物、批发和零售等,有时也包括金融交易。例如:

Chinese industry is rapidly expanding.中国的工业正在迅速发展。

She wants to go into business when she leaves college.她大学毕业后想经商。

business, occupation, profession, trade, vocation

这组词都有“职业,工作”的意思。它们之间的区别是：business使用广泛,在日常生活中,可泛指“事情”,尤指自己负责管理的事情; 在社会经济生活中,多指生意,尤指以赢利为目的的买卖或商业中的工作。occupation可以泛指各种专业。profession指必须受过相当高的教育或专门训练才能从事的知识性职业,如律师、医生、建筑师等。vocation指专心从事的业务,除谋生的行业外,还包括专门爱好。trade则是指涉及体力或手工劳动、手工操作机械或工具的职业。例如:

That's no business of yours.那事与你无关。

Mind your own business.管你自己的事,少管闲事。

A lot of the U.S. small grocers have gone out of business since the advent of the supermarkets.超级市场一出现,大批美国食品杂货店就歇业了。

She got a sideline occupation.她从事第二职业。

She left her teaching profession and became a secretary.她放弃教书的职业改行当了秘书。

Mr. Brown is a lawyer by profession.布朗先生的职业是律师。

He chose painting as his vocation.他以绘画为专业。

He is in the silk trade.他做丝绸生意。

business, busyness

这两个词仅一个字母之差,读音和意思却迥然不同。business读作 ［'bIznəs］ ,意为“生意”“商业”“任务”; 而busyness读作 ［'bIzInəs］ ,意为“忙碌”“繁忙”。

talk business, talk shop

这两个短语意思不同:talk business是“讲正经事”的意思; 而talk shop作“讲行话”解。试比较:

They have a habit of talking shop.

他们一开口总是三句话不离本行。

We are willing to listen if you are going to talk business.

讲点正经的,我们倒愿意听听。

下面每组中两个短语的意思不同：

go into business

经商

get down business

干正经事，谈正经事

in business

经商；在商界

on business

因公；办理事务

affair，business，matter，concern，thing

这些名词均含“事情”之意。

affair含义较广，侧重指已发生或必须去做的任何事情或事务。复数形式多指重大或较复杂的事务。

business通常指较重要或较难而又必须承担的事情，也可指商事。

matter普通用词，着重指一件考虑中的或需要处理的事。

concern往往强调与个人或团体利害有直接或重大关系的事。

thing用作“事情”解时，词义较笼统、含糊，多用于指不很具体的事。

business，commerce，trade，bargain，deal

这些名词均含“贸易，交易”之意。

business指包括售货、购货、换货在内的综合商业活动，方式可以是批发或零售。

commerce多指大规模的买卖或易货关系。

trade普通用词，含义广。既可指某种具体的商业又可指广泛的贸易。

bargain多指买卖双方通过谈判、协商就商品质量、数量、价格等项达成协议所成的生意。

deal口语用词，指买卖双方经过交涉达成协议成交。