BVP 03 Business Vocabulary – Office Manager
时间：2018-12-05 作者：英语课 分类：商务英语管理课程
Today’s podcast continues our series on business vocabulary, with a special focus on collocations or word partnerships 1. By focusing on words that are commonly used together you can improve your vocabulary and also your ability to understand your English-speaking colleagues.
When you think of “office administration”, what are the first things that come to mind? They might be things like paperwork, filing, copying, and other boring and repetitive tasks. Most people probably don’t think of an office manager’s job as a crucial service that supports the successful running of a company and, therefore, its ability to make money.
Well, today we’re about to meet Thomas, who’s going to tell us about the role he plays as office manager at the Mexican subsidiary 2 of a multinational 3 chemical company.
Listening Questions:
1) How does Thomas summarize his role as Office Manager?
2) What characteristics does Thomas list as important qualities of an office manager?
3) According to Thomas, what is a common misunderstanding about the best way for an office manager to do his job?
- Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句
- The company placed much money in its foreign subsidiary.那家公司投下巨额资金于国外的子公司。
- This question is subsidiary to the previous one.这个问题是辅助上一个问题的。
- The firm was taken over by a multinational consulting firm.这家公司被一个跨国咨询公司收购。
- He analyzed the relationship between multinational corporations and under-developed countries.他分析了跨国公司和不发达国家之间的关系。