名 line of business，trade，occupation，profession；动 （从事） engage in；副 （已经） already，course of study ；

[例句] 不久之后，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。 Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.

[例句] 这些公司决心要垄断香蕉业。 These companies are determined to keep a stranglehold on the banana industry.

occupation，profession，vocation，[电影]Kariera；

[例句] 卡琳设法达到了其职业的要求。 Somehow Karin managed to cope with the demands of her career.

[例句] 职业赛马骑师禁止对赛马结果下注。 Jockeys are forbidden to bet on the outcome of races.

do business，business ；

[例句] 她打算今天早上8点整准时开门营业。 She planned to unlock the store at 8.00 sharp this morning.

[例句] 他的店周一到周五、每天上午9点到下午6点对外营业。 His shop is open Monday through Friday, 9am to 6pm.

enterprise，establishment，business，company；

[例句] 各企业需要更好地培训工人，并且在研发方面加大投入。 Businesses need to train their workers better, and spend more on R&D.

[例句] 现今的有机葡萄酒生产商一般是注重品质的小型家族企业. Today's organic wine producer is typically a small, quality-conscious family concern.

estate，property，industrial，domain，industry ；

[例句] 计算机与电子行业属于蓬勃发展的产业，需要娴熟的技术人员。 Computers and electronics are growth industries and need skilled technicians.

[例句] 这场大火使科威特的石油产业陷入悲惨的境地。 The fire left Kuwait's oil industry in a sorry state.

vocational work，professional work，business，service，operation ；

[例句] 管理层对业务发展的态势充满信心。 Management is confident about the way business is progressing.

[例句] 这意味着在贷款业务剧增时小银行能够获得大笔利润。 This means smaller banks can cream off big profits during lending booms.

commerce，trade，business，biz，city article ；

[例句] 社区广播电台和商业广播电台一直是有区别的。 There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.

[例句] 这一聚合物的性质目前是个商业机密。 The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.

fishery industry，fishery，fishing，fish culture ；

[例句] 许多孟加拉国人都从事建筑业或渔业。 Many Bangladeshis were employed in the construction or fishing industries.

[例句] 千方百计振兴渔业注定徒劳无功. All attempts to revive the fishing industry were foredoomed to failure.

industry ；

[例句] 氢气在工业上广泛用于制氨。 Hydrogen is used extensively in industry for the production of ammonia.

[例句] 工业部长将此事件形容为“绝对的丑闻”。 The industry minister described the affair as "an absolute scandal".

school assignment，军事活动或生产活动) work，job，task，busywork ；

[例句] 汤姆承认玩电子游戏有时会使他无心做作业。 Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework.

[例句] 南点学院不对学生的作业评分。 South Point College does not grade the students' work.

specialty，profession，major；

[例句] 英国的亚裔年轻人通常被吸引到医学、法律及工程专业。 Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering.

[例句] 他的论文几乎可以经受住最专业的审查。 His papers were proof against all but the most expert of scrutinies.

obtain employment，take up an occupation，get a job ；

[例句] 我不得不暂缓就业打算，呆在家里。 I had to postpone ideas of a career and stay at home.

[例句] 我们将通过刺激经济让人们实现就业。 By stimulating the economy, we're going to put people to work.

agriculture，farming，agro-，extractive industry，geoponics ；

[例句] 卡斯帕对欧洲农业状况发表了一番颇有见地的见解。 Kaspar had spoken know-ledgeably about the state of agriculture in Europe.

[例句] 传统的刀耕火种农业方式耗尽了土地的肥力。 Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.

forestry ；

[例句] 这就是林业工人用以运送木材的空中索道. This is the cableway which the lumberjacks use to haul out their timber.

[例句] 对农业 、 林业及小企业也给予其它优惠. There are other concession to agriculture, forestry and small businesses.

trade，profession，industry，calling，vocation ；

[例句] 经济萧条只不过加速了原本就在改变行业状况的变化。 Recession has simply accelerated changes that have been reshaping the industry anyway.

[例句] 计算机与电子行业属于蓬勃发展的产业，需要娴熟的技术人员。 Computers and electronics are growth industries and need skilled technicians.

graduate，finish school，graduation；

[例句] “你一定要来参加廷斯利的毕业聚会。”——“我很乐意。” "You must come to Tinsley's graduation party." — "I'd be delighted."

[例句] 在我弟弟的高中毕业典礼上，学生们朗诵了一首诗。 At my brother's high school graduation the students recited a poem.

lose one's job，be out of work，be unemployed，idleness，in dry dock ；

[例句] 1986年，有300多万人领取失业救济金。 In 1986 more than three million were receiving unemployment benefit.

[例句] 两年后，他一贫如洗，靠失业救济金生活。 Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.

stop doing business，termination of business，wind up business，suspense of business，put up the shutters ；

career，undertaking，enterprise；

[例句] 她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。 She dusted herself down and left to build her own career.

[例句] 事业要成功，才能、勤奋和顽强的意志都至关重要。 Talent, hard work and sheer tenacity are all crucial to career success.

start business，open for business，go into operation，open a private practice，practice ；

[例句] 市长的方案激励了打算在曼哈顿下城开业的公司。 The mayor's scheme offers incentives to firms setting up in lower Manhattan.

[例句] 诺里奇的皇家戏院将在11月重新开业。 The Theatre Royal, Norwich, will reopen in November.