华尔街的赚钱经(MP3+中英字幕) 第47期:星巴克 从咖啡店到咖啡帝国(1)
时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街的赚钱经
英语课
Howard Schultz is not a household name to most North Americans, but those living in urban or suburban 1 communities know his company: the specialty 2 coffee retailer 4 Starbucks. In the span of a decade, Starbucks has grown into the largest coffee roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in North America. By 2000, its coffee houses could be found in more than 2 , 600 locations worldwide; even President Bill Clinton has been photographed with a Starbucks to-go container in his hand. According to Newsweek, Schultz's merging 5 with the three Cs-coffee, commerce and community-surely ranks as one of the '90s greatest retail 3 successes'.
对于大多数的北美人而言,霍华德·舒尔茨这个名字并非称得上是家喻户晓。但无论是城里人还是农村人却都知道他公司的名字——专业咖啡零售商星巴克。在短短的十几年间,星巴克一跃成为北美地区最大的咖啡烘蜡者和专业咖啡零售商。到2000年,星巴克咖啡连锁店遍布世界2,600多个地方。甚至在一张照片中,美国前总统比尔·克林顿先生也手握一杯星巴克的外卖咖啡。舒尔茨的咖啡、商业和社区三个"C"的融合被美国〈新闻周刊〉评为“九十年代最成功零售范例”之一。
Personal Life
个人生活
Schultz was born in 1953 and grew up in the federally subsidized Canarsie housing project in the Brooklyn borough 6 of New York City. His mother worked as a receptionist, and his father held a variety of jobs, none of which offered decent pay or medical insurance. When "Howie" was seven, his father lost his job as a driver for a diaper service when he broke his ankle. In the ensuing months, the family was literally 7 too poor to put food on the table. It was a memory that Schultz would carry with him into adulthood 8.
舒尔茨出生于1953年,在位于纽约布鲁克林区的一个社区长大。该社区属于联邦政府补贴建设的“贫民安顿计划”公共住宅项目。他的母亲是一个公司的接待员,父亲做过好多份工作,但每一个工作都无法给予他一份像样的工资和医疗保险。在他7岁那年,父亲因为扭断脚躁而失去了在一家尿布生产厂做卡车司机的工作。接下来的那几个月,家里的经济更加拮据了,甚至到了“吃了上顿没下顿”的程度。这段刻骨铭心的记忆伴随着舒尔茨的成长。
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
n.(speciality)特性,特质;专业,专长
- Shell carvings are a specialty of the town.贝雕是该城的特产。
- His specialty is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
- In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
- These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
n.零售商(人)
- What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢?
- The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。
合并(分类)
- Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。
n.享有自治权的市镇;(英)自治市镇
- He was slated for borough president.他被提名做自治区主席。
- That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事。
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
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