听这些对话，您会发现许多有用的表达. 例如, 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. 你可以一起学那些话, as one expression or “collocation.”
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 金融英语 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.
According to Donald Trump, “trade wars are easy to win.” 然而, as usual, reality appears to contradict Trump’s claims. In the current dispute between the U.S. and China, it doesn’t look like a winner will emerge any time soon. As CNN notes:
The Trump administration made good on its threat to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports from 10% 至 25%, marking a sharp rise in tensions between the world’s two largest economies. After months of talks aimed at ending a year-long dispute that has already hurt global growth and rattled stock markets around the world, the latest US salvo risks triggering a new wave of tit-for-tat responses.
欢迎回到 商务英语播客for today’s商务英语词汇lesson on how to describe company performance.
Every company’s goal is to make a profit. But how they go about that is different. Different industries, different business models, different approaches – There’s no simple recipe for success. And there’s no simple, single way to measure whether a company is performing well.
代替, we look at many different factors when we measure company performance. We’ve also got a lot of different expressions in English for discussing the topic. And many of theseEnglish expressionsare what we call “collocations.”
What’s a collocation? 出色地, it’s just a natural combination of words. Ever heard the expressions “turn a profit” or “boost the bottom line?” We don’t say “grow a profit” or “up the bottom line.” Those simply aren’t natural collocations. And if you say something like that, you won’t sound natural.
So studying collocations is a great way to sound more natural with your vocabulary. You can learn combinations of words, rather than single words on their own. As you listen to the dialog today, try to pick out some of these collocations, 我们将稍后在汇报中讨论它们.
在对话框中, we’ll rejoin a meeting at a private equity firm. Three colleagues, 玛丽亚, 克劳迪娅, 和泰勒, are talking about some of the companies they’ve invested in. They’ll use lots of great collocations as they discuss the performance of these companies.
听力问题
1. What does Claudia think about SmartMoney? 2. What does Taylor think they should do before selling off SmartMoney? 3. What has Claudia been focusing on with Byron Industries?
