businesses 商业
生意
交易
事情 (business的名词复数)
- If I could pick a job in businesses, this one would be it.
如果我可以在商业中挑选一个职业,无疑就是这个。 - He says his goal is to draw green businesses to the state.
他说,他的目标就是把绿色生意吸引到这个州来。 - In doing so, businesses will be able to concentrate on what they know how do best: their business.
这样,事情将能够集中在他们知道如何做得最好的事情上:他们的业务。
Business \Busi"ness\ (b[i^]z"n[e^]s), n.; pl. {Businesses}
(b[i^]z"n[e^]s*[e^]z). [From {Busy}.]
1. 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.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's
business? --Luke ii. 49.
2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for
livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a
profession. ``The business of instruction.'' --Prescott.
3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in
general; mercantile transactions.
It seldom happens that men of a studious turn
acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge
of business. --Bp. Popteus.
4. That which one has to do or should do; special service,
duty, or mission.
The daughter of the King of France,
On serious business, craving quick despatch,
Importunes personal conference. --Shak.
What business has the tortoise among the clouds?
--L'Estrange.
5. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense,
and modified by the connected words.
It was a gentle business, and becoming
The action of good women. --Shak.
Bestow
Your needful counsel to our business. --Shak.
6. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons
and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by
the stage manager in rehearsal.
7. Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
{To make (a thing) one's business}, to occupy one's self with
a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.]
{To mean business}, to be earnest. [Colloq.]
Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement;
employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession;
vocation; office; duty.