Street Talks
A: Hi Bob, how’s business? (情况如何)
B: Just okay.
A: Okay, enough small talk. Let’s get down to business/talk business. (谈正题吧)
B: Good idea.
A: Since we’re good friends, you don't have to pay me.
B: No, I can’t accept it. Business is business.
A: Joanna, will you go out with me tonight?
B: I’d like to, but I’m afraid I can’t. I have another date
　　tonight.
A: With who?
B: David! C’mon! It’s none of your business. (你就别管了)
A: Why are you so happy?
B: Well, the bank just called and agreed to finance us. So we are in business now, buddy!
A: Hi Jane where’s your husband?
B: He’s away on business.
I majored in bookkeeping in business school.
There is a war going on, for God’s sake! We can’t go on business as usual.
Be careful, these guys mean business.

谚语Proverbs
Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业既会考验人，也会造就人。
Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生之盐，不可缺少。
Business neglected is business lost.
疏忽必失。
car

义 Everyday Expressions

He goes to school by car.

Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列车上有吸烟休息室的餐车由铁道部门经营。)

I go to work by street car every day. (有轨电车)

生活用语Street Talks
This train has a restaurant car. (餐车 BrE)
If George hadn’t wrapped his car around a tree, he’d be here
to cut his birthday cake tonight. (高速驾车撞上某物)
There was a car jack this morning in the east part of city. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. The perputrator is still al large.
A: Would you mind giving me a push? My car has stalled. (熄火)
B: My pleasure.
A: Can I borrow your car tonight?
B: Just make sure you don’t wreck it.
A: Nancy, you want to go to a movie now?
B: Sorry, I can’t leave now. I’m car pooling today.
chance
义 Everyday Expressions
Bill left everything to chance. (每件事都听其自然。)
John wants to go abroad when he gets a chance.
This ideal stands a good chance of realization.
　　

生活用语Street Talks
A: Sally, I was wondering if I, I could borrow…Well I mean…Imean borrow…
B: Money? Me lend you money! Not a chance! (全无机会)
A: Well Mr. Black, I appreciate your interest in our company,
but I doubt you can do this job properly.
B: I’m sure I can do it well. I’ve always wanted to be the best in whatever I did. Give me a chance. (给我一次机会吧)
A: I wish I could. But you even don’t have a B.A, so I’m sorry to say there’s no chance. (不可能)
B: You’re questioning my ability? I tell ya, I can make it! I’ll talk to your boss.
A: Mr. Black, I don’t think my boss will talk to you. It’s a Chinaman’s chance.
B: You think so? Let’s take a chance! (让我们试试看）
A: Well, the debate was fair.
B: Yeah, you said it. Each opponent had a chance to speak.
A: As chance would have it, I ran into Ron today. (很凑巧）
B: Do you have a cigarette by chance? (凑巧)
A: VV, would you lend me 50,000?
B: Fat chance!
What about my chances to got this job?
Are you from China by any chance?

谚语Proverbs
Chance dispenses life with unequal justice.
人生际遇，难得平等。
Whom chance often passes by, it finds at last.
错过机会的人，最终还会找到机会。

child(ren)

义 Everyday Expressions

Tom’s first child died two days after he got divorced.

My wife is a child in financial matters. (我的妻子不善于理财。)
n. 产儿，产物
His books were the children of his brain.
生活用语Street Talks
A: Daddy, uncle Willie is too fat.
B: Huh! He’ll be angry when he hears that.
C: Let it be, honey. He’s only a child. Children and fools speak the truth.
A: Children enter school at five, don’t they?
B: Yes. And in secondary school, children get more advanced knowledge.
A: That’s not fair!
B: Stop acting like such a child! (别这么幼稚。)
A: Was the test difficult?
B: Child’s play. (小儿科。)
I’m a real wild child. I like to drink, chase women, and smoke weed. (大麻)
谚语Proverbs
Children and fools cannot lie.
孩子和傻子，不会说谎。
Children are poor men’s riches.
孩子是穷人的财产。
The child is father of the man
童年的经历可决定成年以后的性格（三岁看大）。

clock

　　义 Everyday Expressions
I set my alarm clock for 6.30. (我把闹钟拨到6点半响。)
This old car has clocked up another 50,000 kilometers. (这部老爷车已经行驶了5万公里）
He clocked 9.6 seconds for the 100 meters. (他用9.6秒跑完100米）
生活用语Street Talks
A: Damn George, he’s trying to kill the clock. (为保持分数而拿着球拖延比赛时间）
B: We’ve got to stop him. Come on!
If ya don’t shut up, buster, I’m gonna clean your clock! (狠揍你一顿)
The new regulations will put the clock back by 50 years.
(新的规章是开倒车，要退回50年前的水平。)
A: All staff in the company are required to clock in. (记录上班时间)
B: Clock in? You mean punch in? (同样表示记录上班时间）
A: Yes!
B: Do we have staff who usually clock in late?
A: Sometimes, yes.
B: Well I used to set my alarm clock for exactly 7 o’clock
　　a.m. I’m sure I won’t be late for work.
Let’s stay the clock babygirl, and enjoy ourselves. (忘记时间)
　　
谚语Proverbs
A clock that stands still is better than one that goes
wrong.
不走的钟比不准的钟更好。

company

义 Everyday Expressions
I don’t feel at home in Alice’s company. (觉得不自在。)
George keeps his own company. (独来独往)
This company laid off 100 hands. (人)
公司名通常简写为: Co.例：史密斯公司--- Smith Co.
a company of players (演出团)
生活用语Street Talks
A: Jack doesn’ t enjoy the company of the opposite sex!
（不喜欢与异性作伴）
B: What a queer bird! (多奇怪的人啊！)
C: No, I don’t think so. I think he’s glad of Joanna’s company!
A: See, they’re over there!!!
A: What does your son do f0or a living?
B: He works for a shipping company.
　　 A: John and Kate are keeping company. (谈恋爱）
B: Well I don’t think they are serious.
Leo got tired of the espionage game and quit the Company.
(间谍活动;美国中央情报局)
　　 Parents usually remind their kids to avoid the company of
strangers. (避免与陌生人交往)
　　谚语 Proverbs
Better go it alone than to be in bad company.
宁可一人独往，莫与坏人为伴。
You may know a man by the company he keeps.
只见其友则知其人。