2002MBA备考商务英语重点词汇补充.docVIP

2002MBA备考商务英语重点词汇补充

Businessandbusinesses商业和公司

Abusiness,pany,orfirmisanorganizationthatsellsgoodsorservices.Abusinessmayalsobereferredtoformallyasaconcern.Businessistheproduction,buying,andsellingofgoodsandservices.

Abusinessmaybereferredtoapprovinglyasanenterprisetoemphasizeitsadventurous,risktakingqualities,andbusinessingeneralmaybereferredtointhesameway,forexampleinbinationssuchasfreeenterpriseandprivateenterprise.

Businessisalsoreferredtoasmerce.Thisword,anditsrelatedadjectivemercial,areoftenusedtodistinguishthebusinessspherefromotherareassuchasgovernmentorthearts,ortodistinguishitfromnonmoneymakingactivities.

注释：

Business商业；生意；公司

pany公司；商号

Firm(合伙的)商号；商行

Concern康采恩（垄断企业形式之一）

merce商业；商务

mercial商业的；商务的；商用的

Enterprise企事业单位

FreeEnterprise自由企业

PrivateEnterprise私人企业

Frommultinationalstosmallfirms从跨国公司到小型企业

Largepaniesarereferredtoascorporations,especiallyintheUnitedStates.Corporateisusedtodescribethingsrelatingtoacorporation,ortocorporationsingeneral,inexpressionsliketheonesinthenextexercise.Largepaniesoperatinginmanycountriesaremultinationals.

Bigbusinesscanrefertolargebusinessorganizationsortoanybusinessactivitythatmakesalotofmoney.Smallpaniesarereferredtoassmallbusinessesorsmallfirms.

Unlikesomelanguages,Englishdoesnothaveaneverydaytermforsmallandmediumsizedpanies,apartfromthisratherclumsyexpression.

注释：

Corporation大公司；股份

Corporate法人；团体

Multinational跨国的；多国的

Bigbusiness大型企业；大公司

Smallandmediumsizedpanies

中小规模的公司

Smallbusiness小公司

Smallfirm小公司

Industriesandsectors工业及其部门

Businessesmaybeclassifiedaccordingtowhichindustrytheyarein:forexampleconstruction,oil,banking,food.

Sectorissometimesusedtomeanindustryinthesameway,particularlybyspecialistssuchasfinancialjournalists,butitismoreoft