2016年商务英语阅读复习指导讲义(2)

专业术语，能够准确进行中英文互译：

network

promote

word processing

bookkeeping

virtual assistant

网络沟通

通过广告或做宣传活动促销

文字处理

簿记，记帐

虚拟助理

administrative support 行政支助

online forum

网上论坛

8.

9.

direct sales

subsidiary.

直销

子公司

10. sign up

11. site

12. line

13. unbundled

14. bounce

15. overdraft n.

签约参加工作，签约雇用

站点

系列商品

对……分别计价

开具(支票)遭银行拒付而被退回

透支，透支额

句式

(1)能够准确理解课文中有关商务英语的常用句子结构和意义;

(2)能够准确翻译与这些句式相关的句子。

1. Assistants set their own rates, which can vary from 5 percent for selling a

vehicle to as much as 50 percent for selling low-priced merchandise like

housewares.

2. That may not sound like a lot, but there are some good perks to be had.

3. On its website, United Airlines says its international flights (including trips

to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) can incur fuel surcharges of

“up to $150 per direction of travel, and which are subject to change at

United’s discretion, without notice.”

4. At the rental-car counter, skip the up-front gas fee that allows you to return

the vehicle empty. You’ll only end up paying for gas you don’t use.

5. It also pays to ask: Sometimes banks will waive monthly service charges

or penalties if you’re a good customer.

6. You’re better off with a free or cheap non-interest checking account, and

stashing the extra cash in a money market fund.

7. Taxes that would never pass muster with voters are instead fobbed off as

“fees” on powerless visitors.

8. As a result, many stores and shopping centers are adopting new

technologies designed to get shoppers through their doors by appealing to

one or more of their senses.

9. But no matter what type of display-screen technology such installations

utilize, they all face this common challenge: keeping the screens filled

with fresh, interesting content.

10. Scent Air’s systems provide a way for retailers selling such items as

flowers, baked goods and beauty products to unleash smells that

correspond to their merchandise.

11. Several retailers selling merchandise that doesn’t have either a strong or

specific scent component use ScentAir’s systems to disperse “thematic”

fragrance, designed to pull passersby in by their noses.