学生: 股份制公司英文是corporation吧? 老师: 是的。corporation词源是拉丁语词corpus(身体)。上一讲咱们讲到了词根心（cor）。这次咱们要讲的词根是corpus (身...

学生: <词源词典>里并没有专门介绍前缀和后缀，但事实上他们往往又有很多意思。以-in为例，它有”…里面””朝…去”” 不…”等意思。那我们该如何判断什...

学生: 乍一看到这个词时，我还一时想不起concede的词根是什么。可能是因为它的词根cede有ced-和cess-两种拼写方式的缘故吧。对於这种词根拼写的差异，有什么好办...

学生: 对词根我现在渐渐找到感觉了。譬如disclose(揭露) ，dis-表示否定，close是关闭，合起来就有了”打开”的意思,也就是公开、暴光，对不对? 老师: 非常正确...

'to go belly-up 事业破产 in business, to collapse; to go out of business (“belly” means stomach, so going belly-up means to turn on your back and float like a dead fish) EXAMPLE:My brother’...'

'to go the extra mile 比别人多做一点点 to make an extra effort in making a deal or providing service (from the Biblical proverb “if someone asks you to walk one mile, walk two miles”) EXAMPL...'

to give away the farm 血本无归、损失惨重 to enter a business deal as a seller in which too much is given to the buyer EXAMPLE: “The desperate salesman dropped the price...

'to get the pink slip 被解雇 to get fired, or to get laid off (traditionally, an official notice of termination was printed on pink paper. EXAMPLE:When the XYZ company’s sales fell in half fo...'

'to flesh out a proposal 充实提案 to give or to create a more complete description of an idea EXAMPLE:“Our company’s president, Mr. Smith, liked the new idea our engineering chief, Ms. Jones...'

'to face the music 承担后果,不得不面对 to take the consequences for one’s actions, usually unpleasant consequences EXAMPLE:The sales manager had made all his successful sales representatives ...'