Business

(noun.) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; 'his business with the cane was hilarious'.

(noun.) the volume of commercial activity; 'business is good today'; 'show me where the business was today'.

(noun.) a rightful concern or responsibility; 'it's none of your business'; 'mind your own business'.

(noun.) an immediate objective; 'gossip was the main business of the evening'.

(noun.) business concerns collectively; 'Government and business could not agree'.

(noun.) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; 'he bought his brother's business'; 'a small mom-and-pop business'; 'a racially integrated business concern'.

珍妮特编辑

• Especially on that turning business. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I demand again to know from thee thy business with Brian de Bois-Guilbert? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He had arranged to stop at Frizinghall that night, having occasion to consult his father on business. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• My father brought me to the door, not a minute ago, but unfortunately he was not told that you were here, and he has gone away on some business. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Let us forget what has passed, and go straight on with this business. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It was an unaccountable business. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• And that money-winning business is really a blot. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You know, he said, I can't make head or tail out of this business. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some most important business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To all the purposes of politics it is settled, for instance, that the trust will never be unscrambled into small competing businesses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Few businesses have had a more spectacular rise than the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When I am above the world, I shall ignore all businesses. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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