喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'business' as the activity of making money by making, buying, or selling things, or by doing a paid service for someone — and from there it spreads outward to mean the place where that happens, then to any matter you have to deal with, then to 'what concerns you'.

可以想成「靠做東西、買賣、或提供有償服務來賺錢」這件活動。從這個核心畫面往外長：先是進行這活動的「公司、店面」，再延…更多收起可以想成「靠做東西、買賣、或提供有償服務來賺錢」這件活動。從這個核心畫面往外長：先是進行這活動的「公司、店面」，再延伸成任何你「該處理的事務」，最後甚至擴大到「關你的事/不關你的事」這種抽象的『分內之事』。

原始詞典資料23 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

businessnoun/ˈbɪz.nɪs/

  • 1

    A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

    • I left my father's business.
    • The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
  • 2

    A person's occupation, work, or trade.

    • He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
    • I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
  • 3

    Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

    • He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
    • We do business all over the world.
  • 4

    The volume or amount of commercial trade.

    • Business has been slow lately.
    • They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
  • 5

    One's dealings; patronage.

    • I shall take my business elsewhere.
  • 6

    Private commercial interests taken collectively.

    • This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
    • Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
  • 7

    The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

    • I studied business at Harvard.
  • 8

    A particular situation or activity.

    • This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
    • The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

    • Our principal business here is to get drunk.
    • Let's get down to business.
  • 10

    Something involving one personally.

    • That's none of your business.
    • My work is no business of yours.
  • 11

    governmentparliamentary-procedureMatters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

    • If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
  • 12

    lifestyletourismtransportBusiness class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

    • Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]
  • 13

    informalHollywood, the entertainment industry.

  • 14

    slangProstitution.

  • 15

    rareA group of ferrets.

    • I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.
    • "Aye!" Fisher roared in glee. "A whole business of 'em! Better yet—an army of 'em! And there's more."
  • 16

    slangSomething very good; top quality.

    • These new phones are the business!
  • 17

    slangThe act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.

    • Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
    • As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.
  • 18

    slangDisruptive shenanigans.

  • 19

    Matters.

    • sorry business

businessadj/ˈbɪz.nɪs/

  • 1

    Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

    • Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.
    • They are solely business instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use.
  • 2

    Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

    • He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
    • […] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.
  • 3

    Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

    • Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.
    • According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。