在中国，在“考证热”的影响下，BEC的考生60%为在校学生，其目的是为了获取证书，作为求职就业的敲门砖。
白领学习商务英语，其难点主要在于英语能力本身和商务词汇的缺乏方面，而大学生英语能力和基础相对较强，但遇到的困难也并不容小视。
缺乏商务词汇的积累：日常使用的英语与商务情景使用的英语有较大的差异，这种差异尤其体现在词汇的含义方面。例如：“Prospect”一词在日常英语中表达的是“前景”“前途”的意思，我们可以说“Weface the grim prospect of still higherunemployment。(我们面对失业率进一步增高前景堪虑)”，而在商务环境中，它的词义发生了很大的变化。如：You need to learnhowto convertprospects to clients。(你需要学会如何把潜在客户转化成普通客户)。这里“prospects”显然是“潜在客户”或“有望成为客户的意思”，相当于potential clientsorprospective clients。
为此上海BEC考试名师特别根据自己多年的授课经验，为广大BEC考生精心总结了BEC词汇表，供广大BEC考生参考学习。
absenteeism (n.) regular absence from work旷工
[例] If motivation decreases, absenteeism is likely to increase.
absorb (v.) integrate a smaller item into a larger whole兼并、担负（费用）
[例] Head Office has absorbed the losses of our French subsidiary.
absorption costing a way of pricing goods by allowing for all costs relating to production in the sale price 归纳成本法
[例] Our company mainly use absorption costing to set the sale price of products.
abstract (n.) short version of a longer document摘要
[例] Please brief your staff the abstract of the prevailing government regulations.
[同义词] summary, synopsis, digest
accepting house = (US) accepting bank an organization, often a merchant bank, that promise to pay a bill of exchange in return for a fee 承兑银行
