Business
[ˈbɪznəs] or [ˈbɪznɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; 'his business with the cane was hilarious'.
(noun.) the volume of commercial activity; 'business is good today'; 'show me where the business was today'.
(noun.) a rightful concern or responsibility; 'it's none of your business'; 'mind your own business'.
(noun.) an immediate objective; 'gossip was the main business of the evening'.
(noun.) business concerns collectively; 'Government and business could not agree'.
(noun.) 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'.
珍妮特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.
(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.
(n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
(n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
(n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
(n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.
手打:兰斯洛特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Calling, employment, occupation, pursuit, vocation, profession, craft, AVOCATION, walk of life.[2]. Trade, commerce, traffic, dealing.[3]. Concern, matter, affair, transaction.[4]. Office, duty, function.
錄入:史黛西
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office,employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern
ANT:Stagnation, leisure, inactivity
鲍里斯校對
解釋/意思:
n. employment: engagment: trade profession or occupation: one's concerns or affairs: a matter or affair: (theat.) action as distinguished from dialogue.—adj. Bus′iness-like methodical systematic practical.—Do the business for to settle make an end of: to ruin.—Genteel business (theat.) such parts as require good dressing.—Make it one's business to undertake to accomplish something or see it done; Mean business to be in earnest; Mind one's own business to confine one's self to one's own affairs.—Send about one's business to dismiss promptly.
尤金伲亚整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Especially on that turning business. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I demand again to know from thee thy business with Brian de Bois-Guilbert? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He had arranged to stop at Frizinghall that night, having occasion to consult his father on business. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- My father brought me to the door, not a minute ago, but unfortunately he was not told that you were here, and he has gone away on some business. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Let us forget what has passed, and go straight on with this business. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It was an unaccountable business. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- And that money-winning business is really a blot. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You know, he said, I can't make head or tail out of this business. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some most important business. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To all the purposes of politics it is settled, for instance, that the trust will never be unscrambled into small competing businesses. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Few businesses have had a more spectacular rise than the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- When I am above the world, I shall ignore all businesses. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
黛拉校對