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Unit Thirteen Business Meeting Unit Objectives (单元目标) After reading this unit, you should understand the difficulties and skills of idioms interpreting. find ways to improve your interpreting skills and performance. master the basic words and expressions about business meeting. know some cultural background knowledge about business meeting. Preparing I. Interpreting Skills (口译技能) Read the following presentation about idioms interpreting and try to understand the difficulties and skills of idioms interpreting. Then complete the following task: 1. Please interpret the following idioms into English and Chinese respectively. 1) 隔墙有耳破釜沉舟三思而后行无风不起浪言既出，驷马难追谋事在天，成事在人20 The burnt child dreads the fire. /Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. /Where there is a will, there is a way. /Strike while the iron is hot. /Don’t wash your dirty linen in public. /All good things must come to an end. 2. You are going to hear a short passage, note down what you hear, pay attention to the idioms and try to interpret them accurately. Idioms Interpreting（成语口译） Both Chinese and English are particularly rich in idioms. Idioms are so vivid and forcible in conveying a particular meaning that they are frequently used by speakers of both languages. Chinese and English idioms came into being under different historical, geographical, cultural and social backgrounds, so they contain different stories reflecting different environment, life, history, culture and values of the native speakers. It is surely no easy thing to understand idioms, let alone interpret them. One can hardly expect to provide a satisfactory rendition of an idiom unless he is guided by the correct method and manages to get an accurate understanding of its implied meaning through its surface structure according to the context. The Definition of Idiom An idiom can be defined as a group of words with a meaning different from the combined meanings of its component words. One can hardly guess its meaning from the indivi