Business English课本词汇复习.doc

Business English Careers Noun combinations Example: career ladder series of levels that lead to better and better jobs （事业阶梯） career move something you do in order to progress in your job （职位升迁） career break period of time away from your job to, for example, look after your children (职业假期) Collocations Example: have career opportunities take a career break make a career move climb the career ladder offer career opportunities decide on a career plan Making sentences make a fortune make progress make a living get a promotion get the sack (get fired) take early retirement work flexi time work anti-social hours (Means work at evening and weekends. 慶ause those are hours that most peoploe carry on their social lives) get a nine-to-five work (朝九晚五的工作) New Words and phrases multinationals go trekking bonus flexi-time antisocial hours key words and expressions: cosmopolitan: of worldwide scope queue for tube job: line up for underground (subway) correspondent: reporter / journalist advert (informal) : advertisement issue: a copy of a periodical compensation: remuneration, pay be bound by: be tied up by classic: traditional be keen to: be eager to couldn抰 care less: care so little ?presumably not at all that it cant reduce the caring any further break bad news to sb more sympathetically: tell the unpleasant news to sb more gently (in a more sympathetic manner) 1. cosmopolitan: of worldwide scope 世界性的 adj a cosmopolitan city 国际大都市 a cosmopolitan plant 遍生于世界各地的植物 a cosmopolitan person四海为家的人 Cf. metropolitan (大都市的) the metropolitan New York 2. queue (up) for sth: wait in a queue/line for… We queued here for a taxi. They are queuing up to see a film. 3. correspondent: reporter, journalist Correspond (v.) corresponding (adj.) 4. issue: a copy of a periodical the July issue of Financial Times 5. be bound by: be tied up by 受到…束缚 bind: 捆绑,