新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

businessIELTS重点词汇

英 [ˈbɪznɪs]

[NOUN]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

businesses
1. [U 不可数名词] 商业
Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
双语例句
例：
young people seeking a career in business.
在商界寻求职业发展的年轻人。
例：
Jennifer has an impressive academic and business background.
詹妮弗有着了不起的学术和商业背景。
例：
Harvard Business School.
哈佛商学院。
2. [U 不可数名词] 生意
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.
双语例句
例：
They worried that German companies would lose business.
他们担心德国公司的生意会变差。
3. [C 可数名词] 企业
A business is an organization that produces and sells goods or that provides a service.
近义词
company , firm
双语例句
例：
The company was a family business.
这家公司是一个家族企业。
例：
The majority of small businesses fail within the first twenty-four months.
大多数小企业在创办后两年内就倒闭了。
4. [U 不可数名词] 工作
Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure.
双语例句
例：
I'm here on business.
我在这里出差。
例：
You can't mix business with pleasure.
你不能把工作和娱乐混在一起。
5. [SING 单数型名词] 行业
You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit.
双语例句
例：
May I ask you what business you're in?
您能告诉我您从事哪个行业吗？
6. [SING 单数型名词] 事务
You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with.
双语例句
例：
recording Ben as he goes about his business.
摄录本处理事务的镜头。
7. [U 不可数名词] 要事
You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with.
双语例句
例：
The most important business was left to the last.
最重要的事留到最后做。
8. [U 不可数名词] 私事
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.
近义词
affair , concern
双语例句
例：
My sex life is my business.
我的性生活是我的私事。
例：
If she doesn't want the police involved, that's her business.
如果她不想让警察牵扯进来，那是她自己的事。
9. [SING 单数型名词] 事件
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'.
近义词
affair
双语例句
例：
We have sorted out this wretched business at last.
我们终于把这件事理顺了。

PHRASE. 习语

do business
1. 做生意
If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other.
双语例句
例：
I was fascinated by the different people who did business with me.
我对那些与我做生意的形形色色的人很感兴趣。
have no business
1. 无权
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.
双语例句
例：
Really I had no business to be there at all.
其实我根本无权在那儿。
be in business
1. 运行
A company that is in business is operating and trading.
双语例句
例：
You can't stay in business without cash.
没有现金你无法继续营业。
out of business
1. 停业
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.
双语例句
例：
Thousands of firms could go out of business.
数千家商号可能倒闭。
business as usual
1. 一切照常
In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do.
双语例句
例：
For the time being it's business as usual for consumers.
对于消费者来说暂时一切照常。