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1、商务英语文章带翻译随着全球经济一体化的开展，商务英语在当今社会变得越来越重要。 下面是店铺带来的商务英语文章带翻译，欢迎阅读！商务英语文章带翻译World economyThe jobs crisis 失业危机It s coming, whatever governments do; but they can make it better or worse不管政府如何努力，失业危机已经到来。不过政府可以在这场危 机中起到关键作用Illustration by Belle MellorNOTHING evokes the misery of mass unemployment more than

2、 the photographs of the Depression. You can see it in the drawn faces of the men, in their shabby clothes, in their eyes. Their despair spawned political extremism that left a stain on society; but it also taught subsequent generations that public policy has a vital part in alleviating the suffering

3、 of those who cannot get work. Thanks to welfare schemes and unemployment benefits, many of which have their origins in those dark days, joblessness no longer plunges people into destitution, at least in the developed world.再没有什么比关于经济大萧条的照片更能让人体会大量失业的痛 苦。这种痛苦显见于人们紧绷的面容，褴褛的衣衫，还有他们的眼神。 由人们的绝望所引发的政治极端主

4、义给社会留下污点;失业问题也使后 人懂得公共政策在减轻失业痛苦方面所起到的重要作用。很多福利计 划和失业救济金方案都发朝于那些灰暗的失业时期;受惠于这些计划， 至少兴旺国家的人们不再因为失业而陷入穷困。Not even the gloomiest predict that today7 s slump will approach the severity of the Depression, which shrankChina7 s big fiscal package may be starting to work中国庞大的财政措施可能已经起效“ONLY when all contribut

5、e their firewood can they build up a strong fire,“ says a Chinese proverb. With the world economy in its worst crisis in 70 years, every country needs to do its bit to rekindle global demand. The American government, which plans to run a budget deficit of 12% of GDP this year, has called on its Grou

6、p of 20 partners to do more. Is China one of the misers? Its budget, published last week, showed that it plans to run a deficit of only 3% of GDP. Was the 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) infrastructure package unveiled last November, worth 14% of GDR a sham?中国有句民谚：众人拾柴火焰高。随着世界经济陷入70年以 来的最大危机，要重燃全球需求之

7、火，各国都责无旁贷。美国政府计 划今年运行占国内生产总值12%的财政赤字，并号召二十国集团的伙 伴们作出更多行动。中国是其中的吝啬鬼吗?它在上周公布的预算显示, 中国计划运行的财政赤字只占GDP的3%0难道去年十一月公布的4 亿元用于基础设施建设的措施相当于GDP的14%仅仅是在 忽悠？Beijing s stimulus is smaller than the number announced last year, but it is still the biggest in the world. The fact that America is set to run a budget de

8、ficit four times the size of China s as a share of GDP does not mean its demand stimulus is bigger; America started this year with a much bigger deficit. America7 s deficit will increase by more than China s this year, largely because it is suffering a deeper recession which will depress tax revenue

9、. The correct measure of a fiscal stimulus is the change in the budget deficit adjusted for the impact of the economic cycle.北京的刺激计划小于去年公布的数字，但这依然是世界范围内最 大的经济刺激方案。尽管美国运行的财政赤字是中国的四倍，但这并 不意味着它的需求性刺激计划就更大。美国从今年开始就保持了巨大 的财政赤字，并且年内赤字增长将高于中国。这主要是因为美国遭受 的经济衰退极大地减少了税收。财政刺激方案的正确措施应该是调整 财政赤字以适应经济圈的冲击。In China

10、, however, even this would understate the true stimulus, because some public-infrastructure investment will be done by state-owned firms or local governments and financed by banks. Tao Wang of UBS estimates that new infrastructure investment, tax cuts, consumer subsidies and increased spending on he

11、alth care will amount to a stimulus by the central government of about 3% of GDP in 2009. Adding in bank- financed infrastructure spending might lift the total to 4% of GDR 然而在中国，经济赤字掩盖了真实的刺激方案，因为一些公共基 础设施投资是由银行提供资金、国有公司或地方政府实施的。瑞银的 陶旺（音）预计,新的基础设施建设、减税、消费补贴以及医疗方面的投 资增长将构成总额占到GDP3%的09年中央政府刺激方案。如果加上 由

12、银行提供资金支持的基建支出，整个刺激方案将占到GDP的4%。Chinese investment in railways, roads and power grids is already booming. In the first two months of this year, total fixed investment was 30% higher in real terms than a year earlier, and investment in railways tripled. China has been much criticised for focusing its s

13、timulus on investment, rather than consumption, but in China in the short term this is the quickest way to boost domestic demand.中国在铁路、公路和电网方面的投资已经大规模展开。今年头两 个月内，固定投资总额较去年同期增长30% ,铁路投资增长了 3倍。 很多批评认为，中国的刺激方案集中于投资而不是消费，但就短期来 看，在中国这是提高国内需求最立竿见影的方式。What about the other tool for boosting domestic spendin

14、g, namely monetary policy? Since the start of last year, China has cut its interest rates by only half as much as America, s Federal Reserve has. New figures showing that consumer prices fell by1.6% in the year to February have brought the first whiff of deflation, suggesting that China has not done

15、 enough to boost demand. But this is not true deflation, where falling prices are accompanied by shrinking money supply and credit. Bank lending grew by 24% over the past year. The true gauge of monetary easing is not the cut in interest rates, but whether it succeeds in spurring new lending. China

16、is one of the few countries in the world where credit has accelerated since the start of the global credit crunch-though some of the lending is of the state-directed sort那么作为提高国内消费另一手段的货币政策又运用的怎样?从去年年初开始，中国已经将利率砍到美联储的一半。新的统计数字显示, 到二月，消费品价格较去年下降了 1.6% ,从而带来了第一轮通货紧缩。这似乎意味着中国在提高需求方面做的尚且不够。但其实，这并不是 真正的通

17、货紧缩。真正的通缩情况下，货币供应和信贷会随着物价下 降而萎缩。去年，银行借贷增长了 24%O对银根放松的正确估量并非基于利率，而是其是否成功刺激新的借贷产生。中国作为世界上少有 的几个国家，其借贷规模在全球信贷危机爆发后不降反升一尽管部 分借贷是在国家指导下进行的。China has not only accomplished considerable fiscal and monetary easing. By allowing the yuan to rise by 18% in trade- weighted terms over the past 12 months, Beijing

18、 is passing on some of that boost to the rest of the world.中国不仅完成了规模可观的财政和银根放松计划，还通过让人民 币在过去12个月内升值18%（贸易加权考虑在内）,局部促进了世界货 币经济增长。The real question is whether China1 s stimulus is big enough?Exports fell by a sharper-than-expected 26% in the year to February and may yet drop further. The 12-month rate

19、 of growth in industrial production also dropped to only 3.8% in the first two months of 2009, and retail-sales growth slowed to 15%. But there are some tentative signs of a recovery in domestic demand. As well as the increases in investment and bank lending, car sales and electricity consumption ha

20、ve picked up. Mingchun Sun of Nomura reckons that the stimulus will be enough to achieve 8% growth this year. But the government has made it clear that if the economy remains feeble, it will supply another fiscal boost.真正的问题是：中国的贸易刺激方案数量是否已经够大?到今年二 月，年出口额下降远超预期，达26% ,并且可能继续下挫。工业生产 12个月增幅在09年头两个月已将至3

21、.8% ,零售业增长放缓至15%。 但是仍然有一些国内需求复苏的暂时性指标。除了投资和银行贷款增 长外，汽车销售和电力消费同样得到提振。野村证券的孙明春（音）认为, 经济刺激方案能够实现8%的年度经济增长。但是政府已经明确表示， 如果经济持续疲软，将会提供另外的财政提振方案。Such injections may be able to drag growth back to 8% this year, but they cannot keep the economy running at this pace if global demand remains depressed. The nee

22、d for China to shift the mix of growth from exports to consumption has become more urgent. Chinese officials are right to say that it will take years for higher public spending on health care and a social safety net to reduce household saving-all the more reason to speed up such policies. If not, ev

23、en China7 s fire could burn out.这些注入或许可以把今年的经济增长拉回到8%，但如果全球需求 持续悲观，增速便难以维持。对于中国而言，出口转内销的需要已经 更加紧迫。中国官员正确地表示，将会用数年时间增量投资公共卫生 和社保体系以降低居民存款，使得这些政策的加速实施更加名正言顺。 否那么，即便是中国的经济火焰也会被扑灭。商务英语文章带翻译How to Attend a Meeting 会议妙诀To really succeed in a business or organization, it is sometimes helpful to know what y

24、our job is, and whether it involves any duties. Ask among your coworkers. Hi, you should say. Fm a new employee. What is the name of my job? If they answer long-range planner or lieutenant governor/1 you are pretty much free to lounge around and do crossword puzzles until retirement Most jobs, howev

25、er, will require some work.There are two major kinds of work in modern organizations:Taking phone messages for people who are in meetings, and, going to meetings.Your ultimate career strategy will be to get a job involving primarily No. 2, going to meetings, as soon as possible, because thafs where

26、the real prestige is. It is all very well and good to be able to take phone messages, but you are never going to get a position of power, a position where you can cost thousands of people their jobs with a single bonehead decision, unless you learn how to attend meetings.The first meeting ever was h

27、eld was back in the Mezzanine Eral. In those days, Mans job was to slay his prey and bring it home for Woman, who had to figure out how to cook it The problem was, Man was slow and basically naked, whereas the prey had warm fur and could run like an antelope. (In fact it was an antelope, only nobody

28、 knew this.)At last someone said, Maybe if we just sat down and did some brainstorming, we could come up with a better way to hunt our prey! It went extremely well, plus it was much warmer sitting in a circle, so they agreed to meet again the next dayzand the next.But the women pointed out that the

29、men had not produced anything, and the human race was pretty much starving. The men agreed that was serious and said they would put it right near the top of their agenda. At this point, the women, who were primitive but not stupid, started eating plants, and thus modern agriculture was born. It neve

30、r would have happened without meetings.The modern business meeting, however, might better be compared with a funeral, in the sense that you have a gathering of people who are wearing uncomfortable clothing and would rather be somewhere else. The major difference is that most funerals have a definite

31、 purpose. Also, nothing is really ever buried in a meeting.An idea may look dead, but it will always reappear at another meeting later on. If you have ever seen the movie, Night of the Living Dead2, you have a rough idea of how modern meetings operate, with projects and proposals that everyone thoug

32、ht were killed rising up constantly from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.There are two major kinds of meetings:A. Meetings that are held for basically the same reason that Arbor Day is observed - namely, tradition. For example, a lot of managerial people l

33、ike to meet on Monday, because its Monday. Youll get used to it. Youd better, because this kind account for 83% of all meetings (based on a study in which I wrote down numbers until one of them looked about right). This type of meeting operates the way “Show and Tel I 3 does in nursery school, with

34、everyone getting to say something, the difference being that in nursery school, the kids actually have something to say.When its your turn, you should say that youre still working on whatever it is youre supposed to be working on. This may seem pretty dumb, since obviously youd be working on whateve

35、r youre supposed to be working on, and even if you werent youd claim you were, but thafs the traditional thing for everyone to say. It would be a lot faster if the person running the meeting would just say, Everyone who is still working on what he or she is supposed to be working on, raise your hand

36、. Youd be out of there in five minutes, even allowing for jokes. But this is not how we do it in America. My guess is, its how they do it in Japan.B. Meetings where there is some alleged purpose. These are trickier, because what you do depends on what the purpose is. Sometimes the purpose is harmles

37、s, like someone wants to show slides of pie charts4 and give everyone a big, fat report. All you have to do in this kind of meeting is sit there and have elaborate fantasies, then take the report back to your office and throw it away, unless, of course, youre a vice president, in which case you writ

38、e the name of a subordinate in the upper right hand corner, followed by a question mark, like this: Norm? Then you send it to Norm and forget all about it (although it will plague Norm for the rest of his career).But sometimes you got to meetings where the purpose is to get your input on so mething.

39、 This is very serious because what it means is, they want to make sure that in case whatever it is turns out to be stupid or fatal, youll get some of the blame, so you have to escape from the meeting before they get around to asking you anything. One way is to set fire to your tie.Another is to have

40、 an accomplice interrupt the meeting and announce that you have a phone call from someone very important, such as the president of the company or the Pope. It should be one or the other. It would sound fishy if the accomplice said, HYou have a call from the president of the company, or the Pope.You

41、should know how to take notes at a meeting. Use a yellow legal pad. At the top, write the date and underline it twice. Now wait until an important person, such as your boss, starts talking; when he does, look at him with an expression of enraptured interest, as though he is revealing the secrets of

42、life itself. Then write inter-locking rectangles like this:If it is an especially lengthy meeting, you can try something like this:If somebody falls asleep in a meeting, have everyone else leave the room. Then collect a group of total strangers, right off the street, and have them sit around the sle

43、eping person until he wakes up. Then have one of them say to him, Bob, your plan is very, very risky. However, you*ve given us no choice but to try it lonly hope, for your sake, that you know what youre getting yourself into. Thenthey should file quietly out of the room.要想在某个公司或机构中真正取得成功，了解自己的工作是什么,

44、 有什么责任,有时会对你有所帮助。问问周围的同事，你说：嗨，我是新来的。我的职务是什么?”如果他们的回答是 远期计划员或“副州长，那么你大可四处闲逛，玩字谜游戏玩 到退休。不过，大多数工作还是需要你做点什么的。现代的机构中有两类主要的工作：为正在出席会议的人记 留言，以及出席会议。你的根本择业策略应该是尽快去找一个主要涉及第2项出席 会议的工作，因为这才是真正名望的所在。当然，能给别人记 留 言也不错。但是，除非你学会怎么出席会议，否那么，你将永远得不到 大权在握的位置,那种你的一个愚蠢决定就能让千万人丢掉饭碗的位 置。有史以来的第一次会议可上溯到夹生代时期。那时候，男人的工作就是捕杀猎物并把

45、它带回给家里的女人，后者负责解决如何烹 制的问题。问题是，男人行动缓慢，基本上是一丝不挂，而猎物却有 温暖的毛皮，跑得像羚羊一般飞快。（实际上那就是一只羚羊，只不过 没人知道而已。）最后有人说了： 我们干脆坐下来集体出出主意，这样说不定能找到更好的方法来捕捉猎物!”聚会进行得非常顺利，而且坐成一圈还 要暖和许多，所以他们约定第二天再次碰面，如是日复一日。但是，女人说了，男人没有带回来任何东西，人类快要饿死了。 男人也认为形势严峻，并表示将把这一事项列入议程表的最前列。到了这一步，简单却不愚蠢的女人只好开始以植物为食，现代农业就 此诞生。要是没有会议，这一切就不可能发生。不过，现代的商务会议更像

46、是一场葬礼：与会人员穿着不舒服的 衣装，心里面巴不得能去别的什么地方。其间的主要区别在于大多数 葬礼都有一个明确的目的。此外，在会议上从来不会真的有什么东西 被埋葬。某种意见可能看似已经咽了气，但它总会在此后的某个会议再次 露面。如果你曾经看过活死人之夜这部电影，你就会对现代会议 的运行方式有一个粗略的概念：所有人都认为已经死掉了的计划和建 议不断从坟墓中爬出来，摇摇晃晃重新走进会议当中，吃掉活人的大 脑。会议主要分为两种类型:基本上跟过植树节一样的会议，也就是说，只是一个传统。比方说，许多管理人员爰在星期一开会，就因为这天是星期一。你会 习惯的，而且最好得习惯，因为这样的会议占所有会议的83

47、%（这一数 字来自我所作的一项研究，就是不断写出数字，直到其中一个看起来 像那么回事为止）。这种会议按照幼儿园里的秀秀说说模式进行， 每一个与会者都要说点什么。它与秀秀说说的区别在于：孩子们 确实有东西要说。轮到你说话的时候，你应该说自己还在干着不管是什么反正是该 干的工作。这看起来相当白痴，因为很显然你是在干着自己该干的工 作，就算不是，也会说是。但这是所有人按例该说的事情。如果主持 会议的人肯这么说：”所有还在干着自己该干的事的人请举手，那 么会就要开得快得多。算上插科打浑的时间，你也可以在5分钟之内 开完会。但是我们美国人不是这么干的。我猜这是日本人的做法。二、据说有某种目的的会议。这种

48、情形就比拟复杂了，因为你该 做什么取决于会议的目的是什么。有时候，会议的目的无伤大雅，比 如是有人想放点饼图幻灯片并发给大家一份又大又厚的报告。你在这 种会议中要做的只是坐在那里发精彩的白日梦，然后把报告拿回办公 室再一扔了之。当然，如果你是一位副总裁的话，情况就有所不同了。 在这种情形下你应该在报告的右上角写上一个下属的名字，再添上一 个问号，就像这样：诺姆?然后你把它交给诺姆并把这事忘到九霄 云外（尽管这会给诺姆此后的事业带来无尽烦恼）。但是，有些时候会议的目的是让你对某个事情发表点你的想 法。这种情形实在严重,因为这意味着他们其实是想肯定，万一出了 什么愚蠢或是致命的过失，你也要背上一局

49、部黑锅。因此你必须在他 们有机会来问你任何事情之前逃离会议，其中一个方法是把自己的领 带点着了。另一种方法是找一个同伙来打断会议，宣称有重要人物给你打电 话，比方说本公司总裁或者教皇。只能是其中之一，因为要是你的同 伙这样说就会显得很可疑：有人打 给你，是本公司总裁，或者 教皇。”你要懂得怎样作会议记录。用一本黄色的便签簿，在顶头写上日 期，再在下面划双横线，然后开始等待，直到有重要人物比方说 你的老板开始讲话。在他讲话的时候，你要带着充满浓厚兴趣的 表情看着他，就像他是在揭露生命本身的秘密一样。然后，在纸上画 类似这样的互相交错的长方形：如果这是一个特别冗长的会议，你可以试试这样的东西：如果有人开会时睡着了，就让其他人都离开会议室。然后就在大 街上找一群完全陌生的人，让他们坐在梦中人周围。等到他醒来的时America7 s economy by more than a qu