As we usher in the New Year, it’s worth taking a moment to see how this year’s major business themes have played out. While smatterings of growth and dips in unemployment have brought relative stability to Europe and the US, analysts at Nomura foresee policy changes that may reshape global prosperity in the long-term.
Explore the impact of Big data on business in this商務英語新聞 課.
By now, odds are you’ve heard the term “Big Data”. The thousands upon thousands of giga, tera, and peta bytes that are collected everywhere around us has caused concern for some, and jobs and wealth for others.
在21世紀, 世界各國都緊密相連. 一家總部設在美國的公司. 在中國航運公司的幫助下,可能會僱用印度尼西亞的工廠工人生產他們賣給歐洲人的產品. 在這個全球經濟中, 我們不只是談論在我們自己國家境內發生的事情. 我們談論所有經濟體, or “the economy” in general. 我們經常談論它!
The expressions we’ll practice today are examples of “collocations.” A搭配 是我們通常一起使用的一組兩個或多個單詞. 例如, maybe you have heard the expression “to have an interview.” We can’t say “do” an interview or “make” an interview. 常見的表達, 或詞的組合, is “have an interview.” Learning collocations like these is very important, 因為它們會讓你聽起來更自然. 當你聽到今天的對話, 聽聽說話者如何自然地組合單詞. 然後我們將解釋它們的含義並練習使用它們.
在我們聽之前, 讓我們談談 搭配. 搭配是母語人士經常一起使用的一組詞. 正確的搭配聽起來很自然, 雖然不正確的搭配聽起來不自然. 例如, in English we say “go online” to talk about using the Internet. But we can’t say “proceed online” or “travel online,” even though “proceed” and “travel” mean “go.” Those simply aren’t natural expressions.
在這個 商務英語新聞 課, we look at trends in the workplace, particularly changing attitudes to telecommuting.
The question of “live to work or work to live” has been around for decades, with many employees trying to strike that perfect work-life balance. Employees around the world benefit from the use of modern technology to do their work in the comfort of their own homes.
Recently though, Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, made some waves with her decision that all employees must work their 9 to 5s in the office.