| 单词 | business |
| 释义 | busi·ness 1. a. (1) archaic < the greatest master of parliamentary tactics and political business in his generation — Walter Bagehot > (2) < formal study is the primary business of a college student > < how the human mind went about its business of learning — H.A.Overstreet > (3) < what is your business here at this hour > < a mob of a thousand people may lynch a Negro on the slightest provocation and apparently enjoy the dirty business — C.C.Furnas > < this knife will do the business > b. (1) < the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one — Benjamin Franklin > and sometimes contrasted with the arts < but in a sick world it is not literature, it becomes simply the writing business — Francis Hackett > or professions < there was none … who did more to raise it from the dull routine of a business to something approaching a profession — R.R.Rowe > or sport < hunting and fishing were favorite pastimes but the abundance of game and its use as food made these amusements less sport than business or slaughter — American Guide Series: North Carolina > or other activity considered less practical, serious, respectable, or mundane < he changed the processing and marketing of petroleum from a gamble to a business — Marquis James > < the way therefore to avoid public comment is to avoid the speech of affection and to use that of business — R.M.Weaver > : occupation, position, trade, line (2) < he's in business for himself > < he sold out his business > collectively < the city is a business center > < business does not act as a unit > (3) < the explosion broke windows in businesses several blocks away > (4) < they were far away from the Zidonians and had no business with any man — Judg 18:7 (Authorized Version) > but now especially economic (as buying and selling) < business as usual > < you can't do business with that heel > < the company did more business than ever > especially < how's business > < I'll take my business somewhere else > (5) < a strong business sense > < he supervised the manufacturing while his brother handled the business > c. < she got down to business and finished all of the letters in less than an hour > : job, duty, work < business before pleasure > < she means business > d. < the best comedian in the business > < that jockey really knows his business > 2. a. < the business of people being able to feed themselves is fundamentally … a local matter — S.A.Cain > < I'm sick of this stupid business > b. < getting her down the mountain next day was a business — Time > 3. a. < one of the slinky printed cotton dresses here, a halter neck business — New Yorker > b. < assistant laundressing is another merry game. Instead of a washboard they use a patent business — Sinclair Lewis > 4. a. < stage business is often written into the script by the playwright … but just as often it is introduced by the director — F.H.O'Hara & Margueritte Bro > b. < generally speaking the composer and original producer have conferred during the first rehearsals of a new opera and the stage business has therefore become a tradition … altered by successive producers and artists — Warwick Braithwaite > 5. a. < none of your business > < told him to mind his own business > b. < you had no business hitting her > 6. a. < I wish you'd give it the old business today. One of the big shots is coming through — Mary J. Ward > b. < that quarterback really got the business. They carried him off on a stretcher > c. < he thought he was the hero of the outfit until the sarge gave him the business > d. < a witness has given him the business such as I've never heard a senator take before — F.C.Othman > e. < he's been giving his partner the business for years > f. Synonyms: see work |
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