competitor competition compete give up sth. all together portrait studio sth. is not for sb.

Engineering is not for me. 工科不适合我/我不是学工科的料。 Competition isn’t for me. 竞争不适合我/ 我不喜欢竞争。 Company
a modest lifa 朴实无华的生活
accommodation n.住处；膳食

We are going to offer bed and breakfast accommodation. 我们打算提供包括住宿和早餐的膳食。
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get started source of income 收入来源 farm produce 农产品 business contact 生意场的熟人/关系 deal in
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share n.股份，股票，股
sold his stockbroker to sell his shares in Allied Chemicals. 他告诉他的证券经纪人卖出他在联合化工企业的股票。 Shers prices rose in heavy trading. 股票价格由于成交活跃而上升。 He invented his savings in stocks and shares.存款投资在公债和股票上。 This year the company paid a dividen of 50p per share. 今年这家公司每股派五十便士的股息/红利。
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表示赞成的常用表达 Pros
表示反对的常用表达 Cons
Yes it is, isn’t it? Not exactly.不完全是这样。 It certainly is. I wouldn’t say that exactly.恐怕我不同意。 You are right. / You are quite right. I’m not sure I agree with you. I agree. / I quite agree. Oh, do you think so? True. / Quite true. To tell you the truth,… That’s my opinion too. As a matter of fact,… Of course. On the contrary,….相反…… There’s no double about it. There’s something in what you said, but… That’s just what I think. 你说得有道理，但…… Exactly. / Definitely. / Precisely. Personally,…就我个人而言…… I couldn’t agree with you more.再同意不过了。 As I see it,…就我看来…… It’s true you have less stree,but… So di I. / So it is.我也赞同 There is no denying that…but… Nor I. / Nor do I.我也不赞同。 I’m om favoure of the idean. 不可否认的是……但是…… I think there is a point there. 我认为有道理。 I’m for escaping the rat race.我造成躲避无何 止的竞争 I thinkd escaping the rat race is not at all a bad idea.
phogography exhibition There’s a great photography exhibition on in town. Have you seen it yet? photographer 摄影者 摄影展 会计工作 accountancy job You probably won’t remember me, but I came for an interview for an accountancy job with you about three years ago.
Module 5 - Part 1 Business Topic: Career choices
By Yan LIU Sun Yat-Sen University 刘燕 中山大学
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stockbroker
As a stockbroker, I earned a healthy income, but I wasn’t happy. 收入丰厚 He worked in London as a stockbroker.股票经纪人，证券经纪人 伦敦证券交易所 In his early forties, Peter was a successful stockbroker at the London Stock Exchange, with the typical rewards of success: a large beautiful home and a very healthy bank account. 四十出头的Peter是伦敦证券交易所的证券经纪成功人士，拥有典 型的成功后的回报：一幢宽敞漂亮的豪宅和一笔数目可观的银行 存款。

passion
n.热情，激情 It was a real passion.
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make enquiries 询问 competitive
I haven’t spent a lot on avdertising, but people have already made enquiries. Sometimes you have to be competitive if you want to make progress. This project is an attempt to strengthen our competitive ability. 这个项目是提高我们竞争力的一次尝试。 We offeren you a job, but you went to work one of our competitors. We lost the contract to our competitors.我们输给了竞争对手。 There was too much competition amony the employees. And I didn’t really like that. Competition for admission to the college is keen.升大学竞争激烈。 Their computer firm is large enough to compete at home and abroad. 他们的计算机公司有足够的规模在国内外竞争。 完全放弃某东西 He’s given up banking all together, and he has become a professional photographer. n.肖像，人像 I take portrait photos. n.照相馆，画室，工作室
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现在完成时 present perfect PP
现在完成常用与“since+过去的时间起点”, “for+一段时间”, “by+时间起点”, already, yet, ever(曾经), just(刚刚), time(s)表 示次数, how long(多久)等连用。 I have lived here since 2002. They have been colleagues since 2006. I have lived here for six years. By now I have finished two-thirds of the task. He has already gone. Has he arrived yet? Have you ever read the book? I have just been to France. He has made the same mistakes three times. How long have your worked on this? 过去时常与表示过去的时间状语连用，如yesterday, four years ago, last year等。 He left at 7 o’clock. ---- He has left. I tried hard last night. --- I have tried hard. The train stopped a moment ago. --- The train has stopped.
had stopped trading in hardware. 做已不做五金制品的买卖了。 We trade with Iran in silk.我们与伊朗进行丝绸贸易。
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go backrupt 破产
record shop go over
quickly settled in at her new job. We move house on Friday, but we’ll ake another week to settle in. 我们定于周五搬家，可是要再过一星期才能安顿下来。 The company wet bankrupt because it couldn’t well its products. Last year, the firm he worked for went bankrupt, and, unexpectedly, Peter had the opportunity to do something different. Sales decreased and they had lots of debts. In the end the company went bankrupt. 债务缠身 音像店 People don’t buy CDs now and small record shops are making a loss. The new Olympic stadium has already gone over budget by 50 per cent. 超出预算50%