轻松日记商务职场篇124:言归

 　　核心句型：

　　Let's get down to our business.

　　言归正传吧！

　　get down to our business这个习语直译过来就是：“开始认真处理我们的生意”，也就是说：“言归正传，谈正经事”。因此，当美国人说"Let's get down to our business."时，他/她要表达的意思就是:"Let's talk about our business seriously."、"Let's focus on the subject."、"Let's pay our attention to the main topics."。

　　情景对白：

　　Jane: Taylor Swift is really a power faction¹ singer, isn't she?

　　简：泰勒·斯威夫特真是一个实力派歌手，不是吗？

　　Shirley: Yeah, you're right. But we have gossiped for so long. Let's get down to our business.

　　雪莉：嗯，确实如此。但是我们已经八卦这么久了，言归正传吧！

　　搭配句积累：

　　①I'm not coming here to listen to your silly jokes.

　　我不是来听你这些无聊的笑话的。

　　②I want to know the sales performance of preceding quarter.

　　我想知道上一季度的销售业绩。

　　③We need to choose between these two schemes.

　　我们必须在这两个方案中做个选择。

　　④My attitude on this problem is that we can not risk our capital on a dubious² business.

　　我对这个问题的看法是，不能冒险把资金投在一项没把握的业务上。

　　单词：

　　dubious adj. 无把握的

　　This claim seems to us to be rather dubious.

　　在我们看来这种说法非常可疑。

　　Those figures alone are a dubious basis for such a conclusion.

　　仅凭那些数据就得出这种结论并不可靠。

　　My parents were dubious about it at first but we soon convinced them.

　　我父母起初对此心存疑虑，但是我们很快就让他们信服了。

1 faction   

n.宗派，小集团；派别；派系斗争

参考例句：

• Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
• I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境，在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。

2 dubious   

adj.怀疑的，无把握的；有问题的，靠不住的

参考例句：

• What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
• He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。