时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   大家都知道bottom 1是底部或者末端。 bottom line这个短语的字面意义就是最下面的一行。 bottom line这个习惯用语的出典却一点都不含糊。看过企业财务帐目的人都知道上面分别列有收入多少钱款、支出多少金额,而最重要的是帐目的最下面的一行,也就是bottom line, 因为它总结了究竟是盈余还是亏损了多少钱。


  约莫在1965年左右,人们开始用bottom line来表示任何日常事务的最终结果或者关键因素,而且不一定涉及钱款;实际上如今你在各种场合都会听到人们应用bottom line这个习惯用语。
  我们来看两个例子。先是一位前律师来告诉我们:他为什么在法律界工作了二十年之后,放弃法律业务去经营苗圃了。
  例句1:Sure, I made a lot more money as a lawyer but I've always wanted to grow things. And to me the bottom line about a job is whether you really enjoy what you're doing.
  他说:我当律师确实能挣更多钱,可是我一向都对栽培植物感兴趣。就我而言,一份职业最重要的一点是你是否真的喜爱你所从事的工作。
  由于种花养草是他的兴趣所在,他宁可放弃挣大钱的律师业务而去开苗圃,因为他觉得选职业的要点是兴趣。可见这里的习惯用语bottom line意思是“基本要点。”
  再看个例子。这是在一家企业的业务会议上。高级主管们正在讨论应征销售经理职位并进行了面谈的那些人选。请听听企业总裁作出了什么决定。
  例句2:We have three people who look good to me. But the bottom line is who has the best sales record. And that's Ms. Green. Let's go ahead 2 and give her the job.
  他说:我认为我们有三个理想的人选,但是最关键的是谁有最佳销售记录。那得推Green女士了。我们就把这份工作给她吧。
  这段话里的bottom line意思也是基本要点或者关键问题。

n.底部;屁股,臀部;adj.底部的
  • The bottom of the cup is broken.这杯子的底破了。
  • The channel must have a flat bottom.沟道的底要平。
adv.在前,向前,提前,在前面
  • We have to go ahead to find a garage.我们得到前边找个修车厂。
  • Youth looks ahead and age backward.青年人向前看,老年人向后看。
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ambystoma mexicanums
anomaly free air
anticomputer
antimonid
antrodiella semisupina
arboret
areca
assembly of interacting particles
basso profondo
bekele
bend an ear
Braine
budget cut
business schools
carriage width
Chisongo R.
come rain, come shine
computer output microfilm equipment
countingdown circuit
Dangjin-gun
deferred response date/time
directing jammer
droplock loan
dual-medium filter
during the intervening years
Dzongla
false trigger
fat-tire
feedthrough
field-free emission current
flatworms
Fluimukan
FM modulator
frightmare
funds for fisheries
gastromelus
germanium-doped silica core single mode fiber
give someone the gate
Gyno-monistat
hagiographas
heavy chain disease
high stake rack truck
idiot pill
isolation leakage
kronor
larva fish
lateral pyramid tract
legal easement
lighttight shield
lithotripsy
malassos
martempering medium
mode field diameter
multilinked
multiple-unit transducer
Nassanoff glands
neighborhoodlike
neutral particle
non-retrospection
nuci
operating condition of test
ore blending
phenological phenomenon
photomagnetic
pororocas
position by mixed observations
post-macro source code
pressure flap
prolysosome
psot edit program
rate-of-change map
resource distribution
retail client
rhizocaul
ripped ass
rippling sea
rothenbergers
rubber dam
sava
sidere
sleeve joke
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soft pedals
sonne beacon
specie importing point
Sucunduri, R.
super invar steel
Tarzhepol'
temporary receipts
That's all she wrote.
through the day
thumb-a-wars
trademark symbol
transaction on exchange
trenholm
tri-statest
Ulbricht, Walter
uranium complex
variable-speed control
wandoo
wet and dry bulb thermometer