什么时候 说英语的人学习搭配, 他们一次都不学一个字. 而是, 他们一起学习单词, 作为一个单一的表达. 如果您学习这些搭配，则英语听起来会更流利自然, 特别是与您的行业有关的. 当您收听今天的对话时, try to pick out some of these collocations and we’ll discuss them later in the debrief.
讲英语的母语人士会自动使用这样的搭配. 特定人群或工作领域通常会使用某些搭配. 通过研究这些搭配, 您将改善词汇量，听起来更加流利. 当你听对话时, try to pick out some of these collocations and we’ll discuss them later in the debrief.
Spring is a busy time for accountants in the U.S. and many other countries. That’s because spring is when corporations and individuals have to file a tax return with the government. It’s our yearly reminder that we don’t get to keep everything we earn.
Of course, those busy accountants aren’t just calculating your revenue and costs. They’re looking for ways to reduce the amount you – or your business – have to pay in tax. And that’s why the chatter around offices and board rooms is all about ways to avoid handing over too much money to the tax man.
Listen to these conversations and you’ll notice many useful expressions. For example, I’ve already used the phrase “file a tax return.” That verb “file” always goes with “return” when we talk about our annual submission to the government. You can learn those words together, as one expression or “collocation.”
A collocation is just a natural combination of words that native English speakers learn as a chunk. WithEnglish collocations, we don’t have to go searching for every word in our brain. Instead, we pull out a string of words that matches our intended meaning. Learning these strings of words is more efficient, and will make you sound more natural. As you listen to today’s conversation, try to pick out some of these collocations and we’ll discuss them later in the debrief.
在对话框中, we’ll continue with a conversation about the tax situation of a company called Brando Equipment. Christie has been giving an update to two senior managers: Glen and Ivana. Last time, Christie gave them an overall picture of the tax situation, and today she’s providing more detail.
Listening Questions
1. What does Christie say is one factor that increased their reported income? 2. What helped reduce the company’s reported income by about $50,000? 3. What important issue does Ivana want to discuss in more detail at the end of the dialog?”
There’s an old saying in English that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” 但, 虽然税收是确定的, 您需要支付的确切金额不是. 只要问任何会计师. 对于公司和个人, 有各种各样的方法来降低您的税单. 较低的税单意味着我们口袋里有更多的钱, 或在我们股东的口袋里. 为此原因, 税收是一个热门话题, 尤其是在春季，大多数税款到期.
在这个 accounting English 课, 我们将听白兰度设备公司的三位经理讨论他们的税收情况. 谈话中, 经理们使用很多与税收相关的常用表达方式. We call these expressions “collocations.” A collocation is just a group of words that go together naturally.
Some English collocations, 例如“抓住机会,” 被广泛使用. 但是许多搭配是特定于某个工作领域或主题的. 并从事该领域或讨论该主题, 您需要了解这些特殊表达. 说到税收, 例如, 你需要知道我们使用动词“文件” 与“税” 谈谈我们向政府提交的年度报告. 在不同的领域学习类似的搭配会发展您的词汇量，并帮助您听起来更自然.
销售量 从未如此艰难. 在数字时代, 人们注意力的竞争非常激烈. 客户拥有比以往更多的知识. 由于这些原因, 公司不能对他们的销售方法偷懒. 他们需要具有战略意义; they have to find new ways to manage customer relationships, and they need effective ways to track how they’re doing.
在本课中, we’ll listen to a pharmaceutical sales team discuss new strategies to improve and track their performance. 在他们的讨论中, you’ll hear a lot of what we call collocations. Collocations are just groups of words that combine naturally. For example, if you want to say that someone finishes making a sale, you can say that he “closes a sale.” Everyone uses that verb “close.” Nobody says “shut” a sale or “do” a sale. The correct collocation is “close a sale.”
Native speakers learn and use these collocations naturally. And if you want to improve your vocabulary and sound more fluent, you can learn to use them too. As you listen to the dialog, try to pick out some of these collocations and we’ll discuss them later in the debrief.
在对话框中, we’ll listen to a discussion between Fran, Gus, and Nick. 在上一课中, the team discussed the need to improve their company’s sales. Now they’re talking about ways to do that. 在他们的讨论中, 他们使用很多 English collocationsrelated to sales.
听力问题
1. What does Nick think his colleague Dennis is doing wrong? 2. What does Nick believe is an outdated way of measuring their success? 3. Nick 认为如果他们改进他们的绩效指标会发生什么?
