business

1. N-UNCOUNT Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services. 商業

Jennifer has an impressive academic and business background. 詹妮弗有著了不起的學術和商業背景。

...Harvard Business School. …哈彿商學院。

2. N-UNCOUNT Business is used when talking about how many products or services a company is able to sell. If business is good, a lot of products or services are being sold and if business is bad, few of them are being sold. 生意

They worried that German companies would lose business. 他們擔心德國公司會失去生意。

3. N-COUNT A business is an organization that produces and sells goods or that provides a service. 企業

The company was a family business. 這家公司是一個家族企業。

The majority of small businesses fail within the first twenty-four months. 大多數小企業在最初的兩年內倒閉。

4. N-UNCOUNT Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure. 工作

I'm here on business. 我在這裡出差。

You can't mix business with pleasure. 你不能把工作和娛樂混在一起。

5. N-SING You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit. 行業

May I ask you what business you're in?

您能告訴我您從事哪個行業嗎？

6. N-SING You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with. 事務

...recording Ben as he goes about his business. …攝錄本做自己的事的樣子。

7. N-UNCOUNT You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with. 要事

The most important business was left to the last. 最重要的事畱到最後做。

8. N-UNCOUNT If you say that something is your business, you mean that it concerns you personally and that other people have no right to ask questions about it or disagree with it. 私事[poss N]

My sex life is my business. 我的性生活是我的私事。

If she doesn't want the police involved, that's her business. 如果她不想讓警察牽扯進來，那是她自己的事。

9. N-SING You can use business to refer in a general way to an event, situation, or activity. For example, you can say something is "a wretched business" or you can refer to "this assassination business." 事件

We have sorted out this wretched business at last. 我們終於処理了這起惡劣的事件。

10. →see also big business , show business

11. PHRASE If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other. 做生意

I was fascinated by the different people who did business with me. 我對跟我做生意的各種不同的人感到著迷。

12. PHRASE If you say that someone has no business to be in a place or to do something, you mean that they have no right to be there or to do it. 無權

Really I had no business to be there at all. 其實我根本無權在那兒。

13. PHRASE A company that is in business is operating and trading. 運行

You can't stay in business without cash. 沒有現金你無法繼續營業。

14. PHRASE If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money. 停業

Thousands of firms could go out of business. 數千家商號可能倒閉。

15. PHRASE In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do. 一切照常

For the time being it's business as usual for consumers. 對於消費者來說暫時一切照常。