英文學習 – Apr 29

It’s a jungle out there
* this expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people. Sometimes people in business feel competing businesses are as dangerous as wild animals. And they feel that unknown dangers in the business world threaten the survival of their business.
Bogus
*People in business have to be careful if they are to survive the jungle out there. They must not be led into making bogus investments. Bogus means something that is not real. Nobody is sure how the word got started. But it began to appear in American newspapers in 1800s. A newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, said the word came from a criminal whose name was Borghese. The newspaper said Borghese wrote checks to people although he did not have enough money in the bank. After he wrote the checks, he would flee from town. So, people who were paid with his checks received nothing. The newspaper said Anericans shortened and changed the criminal’s name Borghese to bogus.
rip off
* A person who is ripped off has had something stolen, or at least has been treated very unfairly.
protest demonstration
get down to brass tacks
* Word expert Charles Funk thinks the expression comes from sailors on ships. They clean the bottom of a boat. When they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the brass tacks, the copper pieces that hold the boad together.

英文學習 – Apr 27

be addressing the economic crisis 看待
blue-chip
Dow: Dow Jones Industrial Average, based on stock prices for 30 leading, or “blue-chip,” U.S. companies.
Nasdaq: Nasdaq Stock Market, an electronic exchange with corporate headquarters in New York.
S&P: Standard & Poor’s 500, an index of 500 large U.S. companies; based on market value.
deal-dealt-dealt
perspective
enthusiastic
executive
In the business world work an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.