歡迎回到 商務英語播客 for today’s 商務英語詞彙 lesson on how to describe company performance.

Every company’s goal is to make a profit. But how they go about that is different. Different industries, different business models, different approaches – There’s no simple recipe for success. And there’s no simple, single way to measure whether a company is performing well.

代替, we look at many different factors when we measure company performance. We’ve also got a lot of different expressions in English for discussing the topic. And many of these English expressions are what we call “collocations.”

What’s a collocation? 出色地, it’s just a natural combination of words. Ever heard the expressions “turn a profit” or “boost the bottom line?” We don’t say “grow a profit” or “up the bottom line.” Those simply aren’t natural collocations. And if you say something like that, you won’t sound natural.

So studying collocations is a great way to sound more natural with your vocabulary. You can learn combinations of words, rather than single words on their own. As you listen to the dialog today, try to pick out some of these collocations, 我們將稍後在匯報中討論它們.

在對話方塊中, we’ll rejoin a meeting at a private equity firm. Three colleagues, 瑪麗亞, 克勞迪婭, 和泰勒, are talking about some of the companies they’ve invested in. They’ll use lots of great collocations as they discuss the performance of these companies.

聽力問題

1. What does Claudia think about SmartMoney?
2. What does Taylor think they should do before selling off SmartMoney?
3. What has Claudia been focusing on with Byron Industries?

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歡迎回到 商務英語播客 今天的英語課上談論公司績效.

這 經濟 處於不斷變化的狀態. 公司成長, 公司萎縮. 新公司誕生了, 和舊的消失. 您不必成為投資者即可對市場的興衰和公司如何應對的故事感到興奮. 但是如果你是投資者, 您的整個退休可能取決於公司是否在正確的時間做出正確的舉動.

這使得公司績效成為圍繞業務表的熱門話題, 或在酒吧. 當我們談論公司績效時, 我們經常使用稱為並置的特殊表達式. 一個 英語搭配 是常用詞的組合, 如 “公司業績” 或者 “變化的狀態。”

母語使用者會自動使用這些搭配. 實際上, 我們的大腦將這些詞組存儲在一起, 好像他們是一個字. 您也可以學會記住並使用這些搭配. 學習搭配是學習詞彙和聽起來更自然的好方法. 所以, 當您聽對話時, 嘗試挑選一些搭配，我們將在稍後的匯報中討論它們.

在對話方塊中, 我們會聽到瑪麗亞, 克勞迪婭, 和泰勒, 在私募股權公司工作的人. 基本上, 投資於合適的公司以獲取最大利潤是他們的工作. 三人正在討論他們選擇投資的幾家公司的業績.

聽力問題

1. 克勞迪婭（Claudia）為什麼對Ranger Gold的表現持樂觀態度?
2. 如果遊俠金幣（Ranger Gold）建立新礦山，泰勒擔心會發生什麼？?
3. Maria認為Intuition Software需要做什麼才能保持盈利?

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