英 [ˈbɪznəs] 美 [ˈbɪznəs]
n. 商业，买卖，生意；商务，公事；公司，企业；行业，职业；事务，职责；私事；事情；消费；系列事件
复数businesses
business /ˈbɪznɪs/ CET4 TEM4
不可数名词 Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services. 商业
Jennifer has an impressive academic and business background.
詹妮弗有着了不起的学术和商业背景。
...Harvard Business School.
…哈佛商学院。
不可数名词 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. 生意
They worried that German companies would lose business.
他们担心德国公司会失去生意。
可数名词 A business is an organization that produces and sells goods or that provides a service. 企业
The company was a family business.
这家公司是一个家族企业。
The majority of small businesses fail within the first twenty-four months.
大多数小企业在最初的两年内倒闭。
不可数名词 Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure. 工作
I'm here on business.
我在这里出差。
You can't mix business with pleasure.
你不能把工作和娱乐混在一起。
单数型名词 You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit. 行业
May I ask you what business you're in?
您能告诉我您从事哪个行业吗？
单数型名词 You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with. 事务
...recording Ben as he goes about his business.
…摄录本做自己的事的样子。
不可数名词 You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with. 要事
The most important business was left to the last.
最重要的事留到最后做。
不可数名词 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. 私事
My sex life is my business.
我的性生活是我的私事。
If she doesn't want the police involved, that's her business.
如果她不想让警察牵扯进来，那是她自己的事。
单数型名词 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." 事件
We have sorted out this wretched business at last.
我们终于处理了这起恶劣的事件。
→see alsobig businessshow business
习语 If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other. 做生意
I was fascinated by the different people who did business with me.
我对跟我做生意的各种不同的人感到着迷。
习语 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. 无权
Really I had no business to be there at all.
其实我根本无权在那儿。
习语 A company that is in business is operating and trading. 运行
You can't stay in business without cash.
没有现金你无法继续营业。
习语 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. 停业
Thousands of firms could go out of business.
数千家商号可能倒闭。
习语 In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do. 一切照常
For the time being it's business as usual for consumers.
对于消费者来说暂时一切照常。
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
he bought his brother's business ; a small mom-and-pop business ; a racially integrated business concern
同义词： concern / business concern / business organization / business organisation
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
computers are now widely used in business
the volume of commercial activity
business is good today ; show me where the business was today
a rightful concern or responsibility
it's none of your business ; mind your own business
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
he's not in my line of business
同义词： occupation / job / line of work / line
an immediate objective
gossip was the main business of the evening
incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
his business with the cane was hilarious
同义词： stage business / byplay
软件产品线工程方法 - BAPO之商业（Business） Family Evaluation Framework (FEF) 是欧洲工业界 … 继续阅读 →.
...，为什么不让自己的生意(business)更加的会好一点，因为大家也是知道风险和成功(success)是成正比，我们需要自己的生意(business)会不同于其他的电玩城加盟店的生意(business)就是需要有冒险精神。
因此,这是一个非常有趣的结论:企业(business)的主要工作(business)是学习,其他工作都靠后排。
业务（Business）：业务维度主要关注业务架构，即组织的当前业务实践和策略，业务流程的设计、构造、实现和执行方式。
businessmen 生意人
The business seems legit.
这笔生意看起来是合法的。
They flew business class.
他们乘坐商务舱旅行。
Business was booming.
生意兴隆。
Both the anti-trust law and the Federal Trade Commission helped protect small business owners from the power of business giants.
VOA : special.2010.09.23
Moore is quoting here in that phrase "business documents and school-books," as she tells us, from Tolstoy, a prose writer.
穆尔在那个短语里引用了这句,“商业文书和教科书“，正如她告诉我们的，引用来自托尔斯泰，俄国小说家。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So they bring like... I don't know, business people are like, different companies to like talk with students here
所以他们把……我不知道，把商人，不同公司的商人找来和学生谈话，
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 来自西班牙的留学生
A business plan,in the words of the Small Business Administration in Washington, is a tool with three basic purposes.
VOA : special.2009.06.26
But Chesley Sullenberger is also an expert on air safety, including accident investigations, and even has his own consulting business.
VOA : special.2009.01.30
The administrators said they hope to sell most of the business as a going concern.
The mobile telephone business is making nice money for Western firms but also for indigenous hustlers.
The Business segment offers voice, Internet, data network services, workspace management, and data center services.