高级商务英语

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1.“This is the first line business in 97 years of our history to be run outside the U.S，”

——In the 97 years of the company’s history, never had a particular kind of product or merchandise been managed outside the U.S.

2.But the assault on its services business led by a trio of Indian outsourcing upstarts threatened

to do serious damage to what Mr. Palmisano expected to be one of his main sources of growth.

——posed a big threat to the field that might be the main sources of growth for the company as expected by Mr. Palmisano.

4.A 2007 study of China‘s top 200 publicly traded companies found that the best businesses in China are not yet on a par with the world’s foremost ones.

——that it is still difficult even for the leading companies in China to compete with those global giants.

5.Americanmultinationalsnowhavea“ferociousinterestinattracting non-Americans to the board”, but as yet even Europeans are a rarity, let alone directors from emerging markets.

——but they can find only a few qualified executives from the European countries, not to mention those from emerging markets.

6.Little more than a decade earlier, both Mr. Jobs’career and Apple, the company he had co-founded, were widely considered washed up, their relevance to the future of technology written off both in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. ——More than ten years ago, it was highly speculated that both Mr. Job‘s career and Apple, the c ompany he had co-founded would fail in the competition

7.Mr Gates himself championed a tablet computer nearly a decade ago, though the stylus needed to write on its screen and the PC-like interface generated little demand.

——however it was not well-received by the market due to its need of a stylus to write on its screen and the PC-like interface.

8.A spirituality guided by his training in Zen Buddhism has played a central part in his life, even prompting him to eschew formal medical treatment for a period during his battle with pancreatic cancer.

——and with such spiritual belief he even avoided using medical treatment for a period while struggling against pancreatic cancer.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/b612924515.html,promise seems too strong a word,but the greater sense of expediency reflects Apple’s new place in the world.——but now as a world leader in this business, Apple has become more pragmatic.

10. After antitrust authorities took an interest this year, Mr. Jobs backed off a requirement that forced developers to use Apple’s software tools to create apps, barring rival Adobe’s technology – though the reversal also seemed calculated to appease developers who might otherwise turn more attention to creating apps for phones running Google’s software. ——nevertheless this change of strategy seemed to be designed intentionally to please software developers

11.To limit litigation risk it is therefore critical for the client to perceive counsel as being not merely a tool to get things done, but asan objective and dispassionate advocate for reason and prudence.

——an impersonal and impartial supporter for sound sense and good discretion.

12. To the extent that the counsel can prevail upon the client to take the long view of its business associations, there is

a greater prospect that risks will be more easily identified and provided for.

——the counsel can persuade the client；risks can be easily ascertained and prepared for.

13.For the most part, however, I would say that most contingency-fee-based lawyers aremore discriminating than is popularly believed and are more likely to take on a client only when the prospects of victory are significant.

——more biased than is generally perceived to be and are more likely to work for a client only when there is a fairly good chance of victory.

14.What the corporate client often fails to appreciate is the lesson that just because a party may have a weak or non-existent case does not necessarily preclude it from commencing an action.

——even if a party probably has a feeble or untrue case, it is possible for it to begin a legal action.

15.The purpose of this kind of litigationis not necessarily to win on the merits but to create costs that will be so burdensome that a favorable settlement can be extracted.

——is not just about winning based on the facts presented in evidence but about creating heavy burden of high costs which compels a favorable settlement.

16.Your BMW dealer will be happy to oblige with as many changes as you care to make, until a cutoff point: six days before your particular car goes into production.

——Your BMW dealer will be happy to do a favor by making as many changes as you like until the point of termination

17.This ability to cater to fickle tastes is just one manifestation of an extraordinary flexibility that BMW has injected into

a companythat sold nearly 1.4 million cars last year, bringing in $65 billion in revenues.

——The ability to satisfy capricious customer tastes is just one indicator of a remarkable adaptability that BMW has instilled into a company

19.Its most striking feature is a conveyor belt that meanders inside the building just below roof level, carrying a steady stream of cars from the body shop to the paint shop.

——Its most impressive characteristic is a conveyor belt that winds its way inside the building；carrying a continual succession of cars

20. BMW’s main weakness is thatlife is getting ever narrower in the premium segment, and it needs volume growth. ——its life is getting harder, marked by a limited prospect for future development in the market segment of prestige brands and luxury products and its calls for rapid growth in sales volume.

21.For all that to happen, Sirtris, like most biotic startups, must wend through a minefield that will take many years to traverse.

——Sirtris must spend many years to overcome the difficulties of this area that may obstruct its progress.

22.Three years ago one such paradox strolled into the Harvard lab that put resveratrol on the map and set in motion events that may in time radically transform the way we age…

——one such conflict happens in the Harvard lab, through which some people started to develop the application of resveratrol, and began to initiate some activities

23.In fact, just about the only time anyone can recall the boss giving his blackberry a breather was during a few startling minutes last November.

——the only time that employees can remember when Westphaldidn’t use his mobile phone to send messages to talk 24.At first glance, Westphal’s frenetic personal resembles attention deficit disorder. But in his case it’s probably better described as bandwidth-coming-out-of-the-ears syndrome.

——it‘s probably better to describe him as a person who has a wide variety of interests and can do many different things at the same time.

25.When a TV news team showed up one day, he put on a white lab coat and safety glasses before going on camera—a nerdy affectation that caused much mirth at Sirtris.

——a kind of dressing that science geeks love and that caused much sensation among Sirtris‘s employees.

26.In reality, a company’s culture is defined by what the top executives actually do. Employees model – that is, they emulate their boss’ behavior. （decide; imitate）

——In fact, it is what the management actually does that decides a company’s culture because staff would imitate and follow their leaders’ behavior.

29.Renowned for effectively focusing the organization on just five key objectives each quarter—and being relentless about achieving them, Wiles encouraged employees to do everything possible to carry out their goals.（persistent; accomplish）

——Wiles was famous for his effective concentration of the company business on five key objectives each quarter and for his persistent pursuit of the five goals. He encouraged staff to try every means to accomplish their goals.

30.Without trust in the leader, the instinct for survival takes over and the cost to the organization in misexecution, chaos, and rebuilding is huge.（disorder）

——If employees do not trust their leaders, they would prioritize their individual interest. As a result, there’ll be huge cost in poor operation, company disorder, and in restructuring.

翻译

1.This ambitious strategy was a response to fierce competition from the emerging markets.

这一雄心勃勃的策略是对来自新兴市场的激烈竞争做出的回应。

2.Being willing to match India’s low-cost model was essential, but Mr. Cannon-Brookes insists

that IBM’s enthusiasm for emerging markets is no longer mainly about cheap labor.

虽然与印度的低成本模式相适应的意愿是非常重要的因素，但是嘉能?布鲁克先生强调，IBM 对于新兴市场的兴趣已经不仅仅是其廉价的劳动力了

3.IBM also says it can manage the risk of intellectual-property theft—a perennial worrymultinationals in emerging

market—well enough to havecutting-edge research labs in India and China. IBM也表示，它能够很好地对付长期困扰新兴市场中跨国公司的知识产权问题，并在印度和中国建立了最先进的研究实验室。

4.We identify the country’s most important industries and go to them with a blueprint for a strategy to improve them

using our technology to beat global benchmark. 我们先找出该国最重要的一些行业，然后带着提升这些行业的整体策略去跟他们洽谈，利用我们的技术帮助他们达到国际标准。

5.It also wants to forge relations with local government in 200 second-tier Chinese cities, each

of which will soon have a population of at least one million and will need everything from a power supply to an airport.公司还希望能和中国200个二线城市的地方政府建立起合作关系。这200个二线城市，每一个城市将至少有一百万人口，从电力供应到飞机场方方面面都需要发展。

6.In the worst situation, a lawyer can be perceived of as a gadfly, a Cassandra that can place a

damper on the enthusiasm for a deal. 在最糟的情况下，律师被认为是一个惹人讨厌的人，律师和希腊神话中能够预言凶事的卡珊德拉一样能浇灭人们谈生意的一腔热情。

7.In the American system, which adorns the lawyer with the mantle of a gladiator, the attorneyis under tremendous p

ressure to kowtow to the client, which often entails shying away from addressing the weakesses of a course of actio n, especially where the outcome, at least in the short term, is expected to be very profitable.美国的法律制度给律师们披上了角斗士的斗篷，背负巨大压力的律师们只能尽力讨好当事人，这迫使他们尽量避免谈及采取法律行动的缺陷，特别当人们认为诉讼结果至少能在短期内带来巨大经济利益的时候。

8.Our perceptions are based principally on anecdotal evidence, drawn from the popular

literature which depicts the American people as highly litigious group, facilitated in their thirst for easy money by attorn eys working on contingency. 我们认识的依据主要来自通俗文学作品中的传闻逸事，在通俗文学作品里，美国人被塑造成好打官司的民族，他们渴望轻松赚钱，胜诉收费的律师为他们提供法律帮助

9.For counsel trying to assess the risks of attracting contingency-based litigation the rule of

thumb is that the risk of litigation is less where the dispute is complex factually and leally, and where damages are limit ed, and enhanced in disputes that are predominantly factual, where motion practice and discovery are likely to be mini mal and where damages re not capped. 当律师评估承揽胜诉收费诉讼业务所隐含的风险时，经验法则认为，辩论内容从事实和法律角度来说比较复杂且赔偿金额有限时，诉讼风险较小；如果辩论内容主要基于事实，诉讼程序简单，当事人必须透露的事实很少，且赔偿金额上不封顶时，诉讼风险就大。

10. Indeed, the best way of lowing litigation risk is to be prepared to litigate to the full certain

cases that could have substantial value of deterrence. 事实上，降低诉讼风险的最好办法是做好准备打一场有充分把握、打赢了会产生实质性威慑作用的官司。

11.Instead of classic two-or three-shift rosters, the company juggles some 300 working-time

permutations to determine optimal use of its teams of workers, some of whom are contract “permatemps”more common in the U.S. 公司弃用标准的两班或三班轮换制，像玩杂耍似地弄出大约300 种工作时间组合来确定最优化地使用公司的员工团队，其中有些员工是在美国更为常见的“长期合同制临时工”。

12.For more than a decade, exorbitant labor costs, unbending union rules and an addiction to

red tape—not to mention the high price of unification with East Germany – put Germanyinto a economic straitjacket. 十几年来，高昂的劳动力成本、毫无妥协余地的工会规则和人们对繁文缛节的痴迷——更不用提与东德统一所付出的高昂代价——使德国的经济陷入了困境。

13.There’s also little sign of substantive change in the historic – some say hidebound – system of

laborrelations, under which unions are represented on the supervisory boards of companies.历史悠久的——也被人称之为墨守陈规的——劳资关系体系也没有发生实质性变化的迹象，在这个体系中公司监事会有工会的代表。

19.Every year BMW—sits down with its suppliers to discuss specific savings targets, but it also canvasses them for creative ideas about possible cost cuts they can undertake together. 宝马公司每年不仅和供应商坐在一起讨论具体的节约目标，而且向他们征求可由双方共同推行的可能降低成本的创新点子。

20.BMW has also driven some hard bargains with its workforce. It began to back away from rigid German working hours in the late 1980s. Its goal even then was to decouple the union-regulated workweek from the amount of time its factory was in operation. 宝马公司也被迫与员工展开艰难的谈判。从二十世纪八十年代后期开始公司就不再坚持严格死板的德国工作时间。从那时候起，公司的目标就是把工会制定的工人一周工作时间与工厂运营的时间分离。

填空

UNIT 1 Globalization

1)Founded in 1908, Hayes Lemmerz is an innovator ofcutting-edge technology and products and is the world’s

largest manufacturer of automobile.（尖端科技）

2)As the content delivered to clients weakens, banks will increasingly need to depend on the more

_commoditized_services they provide, notably capital and trade execution.（商品化）

3)This is part of a worldwide movement that France must follow to keep its energetic,aggressiveand bright young

people and to attract investors.（进取心）

4)Many politicians and the green-energy lobbyists claim we should _ forge ahead green energy because it will

create new employment.（稳步推进）

5)Tests at the age of seven provide a _benchmark against which the child’s pro gress at school can be measured.（基

准）

6)The agency is tasked with developing a _ blueprint for how to best serve small business.

7)There is a large community of Japanese _expatriate s in Singapore, consisting mostly of corporate employees and

their families.（侨民）

8)During the interview with three major television networks, Obama emphasized that his decision _ deploy U.S.

troops in Libya should not be applied to other countries in the Middle East.（部署）

9)The plan of building another Disney theme park in the Chinese mainland has met _ferociousopposition.（强烈地）

10)Most companies in emerging markets experienced a _substantial increase in production in the past decade.（大

量的）

UNIT 4Information Technology

1.Google’s _rebuttal _to the claim of stealing is that it doesn’t sell ads on the Google.（反驳）

2.This season, during a match against Dallas on February 10, he injured a rib that would sideline_him for four weeks.

（被边缘化）

3.The opposition is trying to stir up_feelings of dissatisfaction among the voters.（激起）

4.The amount of tabloid ink spilled（对..进行报道）over her 24-year difference in age with her new boyfriend

does _ rankle_her.（惹恼了她）

5.More stimuli will come from the provision giving businesses the ability to write offthe cost of capital expenditure

in the first year.（一笔勾销）

6.Mr.Gates’ long struggle to make Windows work reflects traits not often combined in a business leader:

technological vision, a love of crafty deal making and an obsessive, almost childlike personality, which drives him to seek every possible edge.（痴迷）

7.Some economists predict that the debt total could surpass the $12 billion mark early in the next decade.

8.She said she was going through a divorce, and it was the culmination ___of a number of issues, including a

child’s medical bills.（顶点）

9.The best-seller this week, written by a young and fledgling writer, is really a success.（没经验的）

10.In business, for example, American companies are learning the _rudimentarytruth that survival in a service

society demands service, or to put it another way, that th e customer won’t come back unless the business provides.（基本的）

UNIT 6Commercial Litigation

(1)It is shown in a latest report that the United States is falling behind because of a burden some legal and regulatory

environment. (burden)繁琐的

(2)We’re in such a _litigious_ environment now that people are more afraid of doing the wrong thing or appearing to

do the wrong thing.(litigation)诉讼

(3)Frustrated with unending peace talks anddisillusionedwith the recent military uprising, many people in the country

are looking for a new path to statehood.(illusion)由于无休止的和平谈判和对最近的军事起义感到失望, 全国许多人都在寻找新的建国道路。

(4)The ad of four-wheeled vehicle gives viewers a feeling of _ invulnerability that no matter what happens

weatherwise , no matter how much it snows or how bad the mudslides are, you can go out in your four-wheel drive.(vulnerable)

(5)In such an environment of uncertainty, any policy that emerges is unlikely to be based on a _dispassionate

analysis.(passion)没有偏见的

(6)Culture was not anadornment to human existence,but almost its deepest meaning.(adorn)装饰

(7)The government is criticized to underscore the perils posed by its manipulation of legislative policymaking,and

its_deemphasis _of deliberation.(emphasize)

(8)Disappointingly,the consultancy merely leads the company management to ambiguity of the market

trends.(ambiguous)模糊

(9)His works—far from opaque but also far from simplistic ---demand audience involvement to decipher their

meanings.(simple)

10.People are helpless to resolve the complex issues that escalate to war, incapable of processing theirrationality_of war,and bewildered by the magnitude of suffering that war produces.(rational)人们无助于

解决升级为战争的复杂问题, 无法处理战争的不合理性, 并对战争产生的巨大痛苦感到迷惑。

UNIT 7 Mass Customization

(1)The country is the world’s most powerful nation, rich beyond measure, and blessed with the exorbitantprivilege of

paying its foreign debts in its own currency, which it can print.享有过度特权

(2)Salaries have seen extraordinary growth among a small number of highly paid individuals in the financial sector

which, until the credit crisis hit a year ago, had benefited both from thebuoyant _financial environment and the globalization of finance, in which the U.S. remains a leader.活跃的金融环境

(3)Nike’s advertisement infuriated _Chinese viewers for insulting China’s national symbol and was eventually banned

by the Chinese government.激怒

(4)Hillary Clinton can fairly be described as the surprise secretary of state, the country’s first formidable _female

presidential candidate who had made clear her desire to shed the supporting roles of her past.强有力的

(5)Charles Dickens’ famous kick-off to A Tale of Two Cities---“it was the best of times, it was the worst of

times…”---seems an apt description of the state of industry: Consumer confidence remains__ fickle_ and the prospect of a dreaded recession seems all too real.易变的

(6)The most daunting challenge for CEOs is responding to an emerging technology or new product that could _

disrupt_ their core business.

(7)Since the early years of the industrial revolution, the issue whether technical change is the engine to _ sustain

economic growth has generated intense controversy.

(8)The property-rich but credit-starved homeowners are easy targets for second-mortgage companies, whose

salespeople use phone directories or _ canvass_ door-to-door in targeted zip codes.

(9)Conditions beyond your reach---and your craving for change—are urging you to let go of the past and _forge

ahead___ toward the great unknown.

(10)I n America, kids who are moving out of home beyond some young age are seen as a _boon_ to the family and

those who live at home walk around with a great big “L” (for “loser”) on their forehead.

UNITE 12 Entrepreneurship

(1) Whether it is the academics’ interests in the livings that come in the wake of_a research car eer or the industry’s wish to produce a new type of insecticide, the entrepreneur is determined to commercialize on these findings.

(2) Some scientists became rather worried, and some claimed that the multiplication oftherapeutic __trials was diverting resources away from more basic research.

(3) With her “charismatic” personality and _ disarming _frankness, the new financial controller won the staff’s respect and trust immediately.

(4) As some of his friends became _ prolific _writers, Jason became so jealous of their reputations that he began to scorn what they wrote.

(5) “At least--”his voice held a _husky_tinge of wry amusement “--you will not lose your job as your father is one of the board members of our company.

(6) Proud though he was of his wife, the king could not help noticing that the queen was stealing the__ limelight.

(7) Wilson appointed Larry Walkman the CEO of Asian area, and encourage him to _spearhead some 20 projects, up and down the different regions, to develop new products and markets.

(8) “Tony Scott was a great director, a genuine friend and it is _ unfathomable _to think that he is now gone.” said Denzel Washington, who worked with Scott on five films.

(9) Nutrient availability is thus enhanced, but such scavenging also results in the trapping of pollutants, which can _ retard ___growth.

(10) Residential area built at such a frenetictempo on farmlands will finally result in devastating effect on the countryside life.

BOOK2 Unit 1

1.The Congress has been empowered to levy taxes on the rich. （国会被授权征税）

2.Peer evaluation is very important in human resources appraisal. （同行评议）

3.New hires get raises after a set period of time.

4.When the police came, the demonstrators（闹事者）were thrust back behind the barriers（障碍物）.

5.The lack of accounta bility accounts for much of the public anger toward the new government. （缺乏责任心）

6.The greatest friend the packaging industry has is the sporting instinct of the buying public. （大众消费者好炫耀的

天性）

7.Much of the area of the country has received subnormal precipitation since the end of January, leading to a dry land.

（低降雨量）

8.Our business scope includes hardcovers, catalogs, top-grade magazines, and high-tech product manual s. （说明书）

1.Depression can render a person helpless. 抑郁症使人无助

2.While he was meticulous about his appearance in the past, he has become dirty and unkempt, which shocks us a lot.

（一丝不苟）

3.One of the most common stereotypical descriptions of female behavior is that their action is dictated by emotion

rather than reasoning. （刻板印象）

4.The trial has been adjourn ed until next week. （审判推迟到下周）

5.Spinoza was a(n) reclusive person who enjoyed reading more than anything else.（隐居的人）

6.Reality Distortion Field（RDF）is a term coined to describe the charisma of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs. （术语）

7.Senior government figures must have acquiesce d in the cover-up. （默许）

8. A political party has been splinter ed by the discord amongst its members. （一个政党因其成员之间的不和而四分

五裂。）

9. A society that is parsimonious in its personal charity will require more government welfare. （吝啬）

10.Protectionism should not be used as a tool to straitjacket international trade. （保护主义不应被用作束缚国际贸

易的工具。）

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When you want to create a climate and culture of hyper-growth, you really need to live and breathe emerging markets.

As for every big multinational, wining the “war for talent” is one of the most pressing issues, especially as hot labor markets in emerging markets are causing extremely high turnover rates.

Inside Apple, it is clear who calls the shots on design and development.

In the worst situation, a lawyer can be perceived of as a gadfly, a Cassandra that can place a damper on the enthusiasm for a deal.在最糟糕的情况下，律师被认为是。。。

Indeed, the best way of lowering litigation risk is to be prepared to litigate to the full certain cases that could have substantial value of deterrence.

Instead look to a boxy, low-rise building a couple of miles away, an unprepossessing biotech hatchery that got little media attention in the wake of the resveratrol findings. 还是看看几英里外那幢方方正正。。。

He’s also a disarming extrovert who genially crushes competitors into the dust. 使人无戒备心的、外向的人

They have to see employees recognized and promoted who have modeled ethical behavior even at a short-term cost to the bottom line.

An ethical leader will command/obtain the trust because he/she builds it daily through actions that demonstrate concern for everyone.

Ethical leaders will have a record in which outcomes were fair, rights were protected, and pain and gain were shared among the stakeholders for the common good.

No longer can leaders prosper at the expense of the common good while they hide behind the barriers of language , geography, or cover-up tactics. In this interconnected world, only ethical leaders and companies will survive.

In fact, Japanese industries went on to dominate world markets with the highest customer satisfaction and lowest manufacturing costs. Their example completely changed the way industry thinks about the cost of quality, or, if you wil, the cost of nonconformance.

Litigation is like coming down with the common cold. There are things we can do to lower the risks: We can take vitamins, wash our hands and stay out of drafts, but we can’t altogether eliminate the prospect of catching one anyway, although if this should happen, we hope that because of our actions, it will be less severe.