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🔑businessbusi·ness /ˈbɪznəs / noun ➤trade贸易- [uncountable] buying and selling as a way of earning money买卖；商业；生意◆She's interested in a career in international business.她对从事国际商务工作感兴趣。◆They are very easy to do business with.与他们做生意很容易。◆I'd like to go into business with my brother.我想和弟弟一起做生意。
➤work工作- [uncountable] the work that you do as your job商务；业务；公事◆The manager will be away on business next week.经理下星期出差。◆a business trip 出差
- [uncountable] the amount of work done by a company, etc.; the rate or quality of this work营业额；贸易额；营业状况◆Business has been good for this time of year.对这个时节而言，生意还不错。
➤company公司- [countable] a company, a store, a factory, etc. that produces or sells goods or provides a service公司；商店；工厂；企业◆She started a marketing business of her own.她创办了自己的营销公司。◆Small businesses are finding it hard to survive these days.小企业如今很难生存。
➤being a customer作为顾客- [uncountable] the fact of a person buying goods or services at a store or business购物；光顾◆Thanks for your business! Please come again.感谢惠顾！欢迎再次光临。
➤responsibility职责- [uncountable] something that concerns a particular person归（某人）管的事；职责◆The friends I choose are my business, not yours.我和谁交朋友是我的事，与你无关。◆Our business is to collect the information, not to comment on it.我们的职责是收集信息，不是发表评论。◆“How much did it cost?” “It's none of your business!” (= I don't want to tell you. It's private.) “这花了多少钱？”“不关你的事！”
➤event事件- [singular] a situation or an event, especially one that is strange or unpleasant（尤指奇怪或令人不快的）情形，事件◆The divorce was a messy business.离婚是件棘手的事情。◆I found the whole business very depressing.我觉得整件事让人十分沮丧。
 ●get down to businessto start the work that must be done着手处理正事；开始认真工作◆Let's just have a cup of coffee before we get down to business.我们先喝杯咖啡再开始工作吧。●go out of businessto have to close because there is no more money available停业；倒闭；关张◆The store went out of business because it couldn't compete with the new shopping mall.这家商店因无法与新的购物中心竞争而倒闭。●have no business doing sthto have no right to do something无权做某事◆You have no business reading my letters without asking me.未经我允许，你无权看我的信。●mind your own business (informal) to pay attention to your own affairs, not other people's少管闲事；管好自己的事◆Mom, tell Todd to mind his own business and stop listening to my private calls!妈妈，让托德管好他自己的事，别再偷听我的私人电话了！➨ TOPIC COLLOCATIONS 主题词搭配Business商务running a business企业经营buy / acquire / own / sell a company / firm / franchise / businessstart / start up / set up / establish / launch a business / companyrun / operate a business / company / franchiseexpand / grow / build the businessincrease / boost / maximize production / outputfinance金融draw up / agree on / have a budgetkeep to / balance / increase / cut / reduce the budgetfund / finance a project / venture / campaignprovide / raise / allocate capital / fundssuccess成功generate income / revenue / profit / businessboost / increase / maximize income / sales / profit / turnoversurvive a recession / downturnfailure失败lose business / customers / salessuffer / sustain enormous / heavy / serious lossesaccumulate / run up debts |