Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses.
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Some businesses will benefit but the vast bulk of the savings will be captured by workers, not their employers
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In the next couple of years the businesses that thrive will be those that are tight with costs, careful of debt, cautious with cash flow and extremely attentive to what customers want.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
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商業；買賣；交易；生意
Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
例句
...young people seeking a career in business...
涉足商界的年輕人
Jennifer has an impressive academic and business background.
珍妮弗有著讓人印象深刻的學術和商務背景。
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業務量；營業額
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.
例句
They worried that German companies would lose business...
他們擔心德國公司的業務量會下滑。
Business is booming.
生意蒸蒸日上。
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工商企業；公司；商店；商鋪
A business is an organization which produces and sells goods or which provides a service.
例句
The company was a family business...
這家公司是個家族企業。
The majority of small businesses go broke within the first twenty-four months...
大多數小企業在開張后的24個月內就倒閉了。
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任務；職責；工作
Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure.
例句
I'm here on business...
我到這兒來辦公事。
You can't mix business with pleasure.
你不能把工作和娛樂攪在一起。
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N-SING
行業；（某一領域的）工作
You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit.
例句
May I ask you what business you're in?
我可否問問你是做什么工作的？
...the music business.
音樂界
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N-SING
眼前所做之事；手頭的事
You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with.
例句
...recording Ben as he goes about his business...
錄下本在處理事務時的鏡頭片斷
There was nothing left for the teams to do but get on with the business of racing.
這些隊除了繼續參加賽跑比賽，沒有什么別的事可做。
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（需要處理的）重要事情，要點
You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with.
例句
The most important business was left to the last...
最重要的事留到最后來解決。
I've got some unfinished business to attend to.
我還有一些未完的事要處理。
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個人的事；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.
例句
My sex life is my business...
我的性生活是我自己的事。
If she doesn't want the police involved, that's her business...
如果她不想讓警方介入，那是她自己的事。
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N-SING
事件；情況；活動
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'.
例句
We have sorted out this wretched business at last...
我們最終還是把這件破事兒理順了。
This whole business is very puzzling.
這件事從頭到尾都很讓人費解。
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N-SING
（令人不快或耗費錢財的）活兒，事情
You can use business when describing a task that is unpleasant in some way. For example, if you say that doing something is a costly business, you mean that it costs a lot.
例句
Coastal defence is a costly business...
海防事務很耗費資財。
Parenting can be a stressful business.
為人父母會是一件壓力很大的事。
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PHR-RECIP
做買賣；做生意
If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other.
例句
I was fascinated by the different people who did business with me.
我對那些跟我做生意的形形色色的人非常感興趣。
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PHRASE
無權；沒有理由
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.
例句
Really I had no business to be there at all.
真的，我根本沒有道理呆在那里。
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PHRASE
在經營中
A company that is in business is operating and trading.
例句
You can't stay in business without cash.
沒有現金，你無法運營。
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PHRASE
萬事俱備
If you say you are in business, you mean you have everything you need to start something immediately.
例句
All you need is a microphone, and you're in business.
再來一只麥克風，你就萬事俱備了。
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PHRASE
當真的；嚴肅的
If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing.
例句
Now people are starting to realise that he means business.
人們現在才開始明白他不是在開玩笑。
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PHRASE
沒你的事；少管閑事
If you say to someone 'mind your own business' or 'it's none of your business', you are rudely telling them not to ask about something that does not concern them.
例句
I asked Laura what was wrong and she told me to mind my own business.
我問勞拉發生了什么事，她讓我少管閑事。
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PHRASE
決定做
If you make it your business to do something, you decide to do it, because you are interested in it or because you want to find out something.
例句
She made it her business to find out.
她決定要查明真相。
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PHRASE
是不會（做）…的；才不會（做）
If you say that you are not in the business of doing something, you are emphasizing that you do not do it, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that someone thinks you do.
例句
We are not in the business of subsidising scroungers.
我們是不會資助那些乞丐的。
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PHRASE
停業；破產
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.
例句
Thousands of firms could go out of business.
成千上萬個企業可能破產。
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PHRASE
同類中最好的
If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
例句
When you watch him in training, you realise that this lad is the business.
當你觀看他訓練時，你就會意識到這個小伙子是最棒的。
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PHRASE
一切如常；處之泰然
In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do.
例句
The Queen was determined to show it was business as usual.
女王決定表現出一切正常的樣子。