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新編劍橋商務(wù)英語(yǔ)高級(jí)第三版第二章(上)
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2.1 P16
1. principal manufacturing facility=main building=main plant
2. central distribution point（站點(diǎn)）=warehouse

3. sales offices=sales agencies
Parent company(母公司) is a company that owns more than half the shares of another company; It is a company that controls a smaller company or organization.
Holding company(控股公司) is a company that has enough shares in one or more other companies to be able to control the other companies; It is a company that completely or partly owns other companies, as well as doing business itself.
A sales office(銷(xiāo)售辦事處、營(yíng)業(yè)部) is part of the company’s main sales department, but located in another town or country.
A subsidiary(子公司) operates as an independent company even though it is mainly or wholly owned by the parent company.
A warehouse(倉(cāng)庫(kù)) is a building where goods or raw materials are stored and from which they are distributed.
A plant(工廠) is a place of production (either manufacturing, assembly or packing).
The headquarters(總部) are the main offices of the company where the top management and general administration work.
注意Headquarters這個(gè)詞是單復(fù)數(shù)同形式，因此后面可以加is也可以加are。
Eg.The company's headquarters is based in London. 這家公司的總部設(shè)在倫敦。（《21世紀(jì)大英漢詞典》）
A division(部門(mén)) is a branch of a company responsible for one particular business activity
(eg. A motor manufacturer might have an automobile division and a truck division).
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4. acquire=take over
Blockbuster acquisition大收購(gòu)
Small-scale acquisition小收購(gòu)
Often the difference can be academic, but a takeover is what happens when a larger company buys a smaller one,
and a merger is when two similar sized companies join together.
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5. grow the business=expand
Organic growth of one company refers to natural expansion through the growth of sales; non-organic generally refers to growth by acquisition.
“the second best way is acquisition”
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6. ecosystem生態(tài)系統(tǒng)
eg. Business in the future is not business in an enterprise, but business in an ecosystem.
原意：An ecosystem is all the plants and animals that live in a particular area together with the complex relationship that exists between them and their environment.
生態(tài)系統(tǒng)。此處是表達(dá)organic growth of one company is natural and balanced.
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7. create a subsidiary to sell after-sale services=set up
8. company be listed on the stock exchange=go public 上市
9. went bankrupt (adj)
=went into bankruptcy (n)
=went out of business
10. laid 300 employees off=made.....redundant
People are laid off for economic reasons, i.e. the company doesn’t have enough work for them.
People are fired because their work or behavior is unsatisfactory.
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11. close the plant=shut down
12. divested the shares in the logistics company(出售該物流公司的股份)=sold off
If a company divests, it sells some of its assets, investments etc.轉(zhuǎn)讓?zhuān)鍪邸补静糠仲Y產(chǎn)、投資等〕
Eg. Pressure on hospitals to divest tobacco-related stocks要求醫(yī)院轉(zhuǎn)讓煙草類(lèi)股票的壓力
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13. stay at the top of the heap in the business software game
at the top of the heap 頂尖，最為優(yōu)秀
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14. aimed squarely at=directly/obviously
15. expand its core database bz into
16. be unimpressed with sb’s appetite for big headline-grabbing acquisition(并不認(rèn)為有多了不起)
headline-grabbing 上頭條，有強(qiáng)烈吸引力的 eye-popping
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17. these subsidiaries are complements to its main activities(補(bǔ)充)
18. the difference lies in
19. when we do an acquisition, it’s at the edge of the solutions處于邊緣上，意指無(wú)計(jì)可施后的病急亂投醫(yī)
20. the company used to concentrate on large business customers, but now pursues sales in midmarket(中型市場(chǎng))
21. privately-held supplier of certain products 銷(xiāo)售某種產(chǎn)品的私人企業(yè)
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22. suite
a group of related computer programs套裝軟件
a set of rooms, especially expensive ones in a hotel套房〔尤指酒店豪華套房〕
a set of matching furniture for a room一套家具
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23. downsize 縮小規(guī)模
If a company or organization downsizes, it reduces the number of people it employs in order to reduce costs〔公司、機(jī)構(gòu)為縮減開(kāi)支而〕裁（員），緊縮（編制）(及物/不及物皆可)
Eg. The airline has downsized its workforce by 30%. 這家航空公司裁員30%。
American manufacturing organizations have been downsizing their factories. 美國(guó)制造商們一直在縮小他們工廠的規(guī)模。
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24. hacked into the official website 入侵官網(wǎng)
25. the vast majority of something絕大多數(shù)的…(可數(shù))
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