时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   你有什么特别的生财之道吗?我们今天要学的习惯用语cash cow就跟赚钱有关。Cash是现金的意思,Cow是牛。牛是挤奶的,哪天真挤出钱来,那不成了摇钱树了吗!没错,cash cow就是摇钱树的意思,或者是指一个企业里特别盈利的部门。


  几年前,苹果电脑公司推出了便携式数码多媒体播放器iPod,结果赚的钱比电脑还多,成了苹果公司的cash cow. 前不久,苹果公司又推出了iPhone, 结果需求不如预期的那么旺盛,看来iPhone没有变成苹果公司的又一头cash cow.
  你见没见过那种一刻也不闲着,而且注意力很难集中的孩子?在美国,这种孩子很多都会被诊断为ADHD, 注意力缺陷多动症。让我们听听下面这个记者是怎么说的。
  例句-1:Over 2.5 million children in the U.S. today are being treated for a condition known as ADHD. As a result, pharmaceutical 1 companies have responded by producing a variety of drugs to control their hyperactivity. These have generated 2 so much profit for the industry that they have become a cash cow.
  他说:美国现在有250多万个孩子接受ADHD的治疗。因此,制药公司纷纷开发生产各种药物,帮助控制他们的症状。这些药物为医药行业创造了巨大的盈利,成了他们的摇钱树。
  虽然很多家长觉得这些药物简直就是救星,但是围绕这类药也存在不少争议。不过毫无疑问的是,它们确实是各大药品公司的cash cow.
  ******
  我叔叔是个生意人,他开了一个自行储存处,把一个个小库房租出去,供人们存放东西。有些音乐家为了不打扰邻居,也租库房排练。叔叔最近告诉我,就这么个小生意,纯利润竟然高达35%到40%,简直就是cash cow. 看来我也应该参一股。
  对了,英国足球明星大卫.贝克汉姆大家肯定都知道。他不久前来美国踢球。有个球迷提出了这样的问题,
  例句-2:When David Beckham joined the L.A. Galaxy 3, he created a lot of attention. Americans who had never watched soccer suddenly started buying tickets. But will he be worth the millions that the team paid for him in years to come? Is he their cash cow?"
  他说:大卫.贝克汉姆加盟洛杉矶银河队,引起了大家的普遍关心。很多从来不看足球的美国人也突然间开始购买球票了。银河队为了把他弄到手,花了数百万美元。在今后几年里,贝克汉姆能成为他们的摇钱树吗?
  这一点,恐怕我们还要拭目以待。

1 pharmaceutical
adj.药学的,药物的;药用的,药剂师的
  • She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
  • We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。
2 generated
a.生成的
  • It is generated by some specified means. 这是由某些未加说明的方法产生的。
  • It generated much excitement and frenetic activity. 这使人们非常激动并导致了狂热的行动。
3 galaxy
n.星系;银河系;一群(杰出或著名的人物)
  • The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
  • The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
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active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha