網絡課堂之英語口語詞彙(4)(Nord主講)錄音及筆記
8. Business ['biznis]
Basic need 音形義
Everyday Expressions
n. 職務,職責
It's your business to take care of the kids. (你的職責是照顧孩子。)
=It's your responsibility.
n. 職業
What line of business are you in? (你從事那一行？)
n. 商業
John wants to go into business when he leaves university.
複合詞語
businessman/ businesswoman (商人（男/女）);
businesslike (公事化的);
business hours (營業時間，辦公時間)
常見搭配 Useful Phrases
娛樂圈 show biz (business)
show time 演出時間
show off 顯擺
show up 出現 （I waited for you for half an hour, why didn't you show up? ）
開始辦正事，言歸正傳 ---to get (down) to business
別管閒事 mind one's own business
與......無關，沒有權力...... have no business to (do)
忙自己的事情 go about one's business
破產，倒閉 go out of business
習語與俗語Idioms & Slangs
business is business 公事公辦
sb. mean business 某人是當真的 (跟某人表白，別人不當真，可以說I mean business.或者I mean it.；I don’t mean it. 我不是有意的)
It's none of your business. 不關你的事。
生活用語 Street Talks
A: Hi, Bob, how's business? (情況如何?)
B: Just okay.
A: Okay, enough small talk. Let's get down to business/ talk business. (談正題吧)
B: Good idea.
small talk 拉東拉西的說， talk business 談正事兒
A: Since we're good friends, you don't have to pay me.
B: No, I can't accept it. Business is business.
A: Joanna, will you go out with me tonight?
B: I'd like to, but I'm afraid I can't. I have another date tonight.
A: With who?
B: David! C'mon! It's none of your business. (你就別管了。)
A: Why are you so happy?
B: Well, the bank just called and agreed to finance us. So we are in business now, buddy!
I've got a bank loan. 我已經搞到了貸款。
A: Hi Jane where's your husband?
B: He's away on business.
on business 出差
I majored in bookkeeping in business school.
諺語 Proverbs
Business makes a man as well as tries him. 事業既會考驗人，也會造就人。
try sb. 考驗某人
Business is the salt of life. 事業是人生之鹽，不可缺少。
9. Car [kɑ:]
Basic need 音形義
Everyday Expressions
n. [C] 小汽車
He goes to school by car.
n. 車廂
Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列車上有吸菸休息室的餐車由鐵道部門經營。)
sleeping car 臥鋪車廂；dining car 餐車
n. 其他車輛
I go to work by street car every day. (有軌電車)
關於車的一切
車身 body
輪胎 tire (British English: tyre)
前燈 headlight
方向燈 turn signal
保險槓 bumper
引擎蓋 hood
方向盤 steering wheel
後視鏡 rearview mirror
行李箱 trunk
擋風玻璃 windshield
發動機；引擎 engine
變速箱 transmission
離合器 clutch
儀表盤 dash board
跑車 coupe（2 door sporty car）[ku:p]
轎車 sedan（4 door family car）[si'dæn]
三排以上座位的豪華車 limousine ['liməzi:n, ,limə'z-]
敞篷車 convertible [kən'və:təbl]
吉普類車 SUV (sport utility vehicle)
剎車 brake
防死剎車系統 ABS (Anti-lock brake system)
車牌 license plate
常見搭配 Useful Phrases
暈車 car sickness； homesick 想家的；lovesick 苦戀的，犯相思病的
纜車 a cable car
車禍 car accident (短時間的)；car crush
停車場 car park; parking lot
車費 car fare
習語與俗語 Idioms & Slangs
car pool(ing) --- 爲了節省parking space, 幾人共同使用一輛車
car jack --- 在車中強行搶車；hijack 劫機
名言 Quotations
I don't even like old cars ... I'd rather have a god dam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
J. D. Salinger (b. 1919), U.S. author. Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, ch. 17 (1951).
10. Chance [tʃɑ:ns, tʃæns]
Basic need 音形義
Everyday Expressions
n. 偶然性，運氣
Bill left everything to chance. (每件事都聽其自然。)
leave everything to chance 聽天由命
n. [C] 機會
John wants to go abroad when he gets a chance.
golden chance 千載難逢的機會
n. 可能
This ideal stands a good chance of realization.
stand a chance of 有可能會。。
常見搭配 Useful Phrases
邂逅 chance meeting
偶然地 by chance=I've met him by chance.
私生子 chance child
碰碰運氣 take a chance
聽天由命，順其自然 leave... to chance
機會/可能性很大 stand a good chance
可能性很小 slim chance
fat chance = no way 沒戲
習語與俗語 Idioms & Slangs
Chinaman’s chance 機會渺茫
殖民時期，中國老，歧視；支那，歧視
chance of a lifetime 千載難逢的機會
by any chance 或許，可能
the chance are that 很可能
諺語 Proverbs
Chance dispenses life with unequal justice. 人生際遇，難得平等。
dispense 分佈
