8. Business ['biznis]
Basic need 音形义
Everyday Expressions
n. 职务,职责
It's your business to take care of the kids. (你的职责是照顾孩子。)
=It's your responsibility.
n. 职业
What line of business are you in? (你从事那一行？)
n. 商业
John wants to go into business when he leaves university.
复合词语
businessman/ businesswoman (商人（男/女）);
businesslike (公事化的);
business hours (营业时间，办公时间)
常见搭配 Useful Phrases
娱乐圈 show biz (business)
show time 演出时间
show off 显摆
show up 出现 （I waited for you for half an hour, why didn't you show up? ）
开始办正事，言归正传 ---to get (down) to business
别管闲事 mind one's own business
与......无关，没有权力...... have no business to (do)
忙自己的事情 go about one's business
破产，倒闭 go out of business
习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs
business is business 公事公办
sb. mean business 某人是当真的 (跟某人表白，别人不当真，可以说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. 不关你的事。
生活用语 Street Talks
A: Hi, Bob, how's business? (情况如何?)
B: Just okay.
A: Okay, enough small talk. Let's get down to business/ talk business. (谈正题吧)
B: Good idea.
small talk 拉东拉西的说， talk business 谈正事儿
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. (你就别管了。)
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. 我已经搞到了贷款。
A: Hi Jane where's your husband?
B: He's away on business.
on business 出差
I majored in bookkeeping in business school.
谚语 Proverbs
Business makes a man as well as tries him. 事业既会考验人，也会造就人。
try sb. 考验某人
Business is the salt of life. 事业是人生之盐，不可缺少。
9. Car [kɑ:]
Basic need 音形义
Everyday Expressions
n. [C] 小汽车
He goes to school by car.
n. 车厢
Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列车上有吸烟休息室的餐车由铁道部门经营。)
sleeping car 卧铺车厢；dining car 餐车
n. 其他车辆
I go to work by street car every day. (有轨电车)
关于车的一切
车身 body
轮胎 tire (British English: tyre)
前灯 headlight
方向灯 turn signal
保险杠 bumper
引擎盖 hood
方向盘 steering wheel
后视镜 rearview mirror
行李箱 trunk
挡风玻璃 windshield
发动机；引擎 engine
变速箱 transmission
离合器 clutch
仪表盘 dash board
跑车 coupe（2 door sporty car）[ku:p]
轿车 sedan（4 door family car）[si'dæn]
三排以上座位的豪华车 limousine ['liməzi:n, ,limə'z-]
敞篷车 convertible [kən'və:təbl]
吉普类车 SUV (sport utility vehicle)
刹车 brake
防死刹车系统 ABS (Anti-lock brake system)
车牌 license plate
常见搭配 Useful Phrases
晕车 car sickness； homesick 想家的；lovesick 苦恋的，犯相思病的
缆车 a cable car
车祸 car accident (短时间的)；car crush
停车场 car park; parking lot
车费 car fare
习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs
car pool(ing) --- 为了节省parking space, 几人共同使用一辆车
car jack --- 在车中强行抢车；hijack 劫机
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 音形义
Everyday Expressions
n. 偶然性，运气
Bill left everything to chance. (每件事都听其自然。)
leave everything to chance 听天由命
n. [C] 机会
John wants to go abroad when he gets a chance.
golden chance 千载难逢的机会
n. 可能
This ideal stands a good chance of realization.
stand a chance of 有可能会。。
常见搭配 Useful Phrases
邂逅 chance meeting
偶然地 by chance=I've met him by chance.
私生子 chance child
碰碰运气 take a chance
听天由命，顺其自然 leave... to chance
机会/可能性很大 stand a good chance
可能性很小 slim chance
fat chance = no way 没戏
习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs
Chinaman’s chance 机会渺茫
殖民时期，中国老，歧视；支那，歧视
chance of a lifetime 千载难逢的机会
by any chance 或许，可能
the chance are that 很可能
谚语 Proverbs
Chance dispenses life with unequal justice. 人生际遇，难得平等。
dispense 分布