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商務(wù)英語：最令人痛恨的十大商務(wù)術(shù)語
Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, even the BBC have all recently published their own indexes of most-hated business jargon. Naturally, Voxy’s here to help with some of our own… and remember, no matter what your manager “thinks” is okay, DON’T let these come out of your mouth!
《福布斯》、《華爾街日報(bào)》甚至BBC最近都發(fā)布了他們各自的最反感商務(wù)術(shù)語指數(shù)。所以，Voxy網(wǎng)站也挑選了一些令人反感的商務(wù)術(shù)語，記住，無論你的老板是否認(rèn)為這些詞沒問題，不要從嘴巴里冒出這些詞!
1) “Action item” – because the words “job,” “task,” or “duty” are just way too long and complex, right?
1)“指定任務(wù)”——難道是因?yàn)?ldquo;工作”、“任務(wù)”、“職責(zé)”這幾個(gè)詞又長又復(fù)雜才創(chuàng)造了這個(gè)詞?
2) “Advise” – Not a bad word, just way overused. Here’s a hint: if you’re not giving an opinion about someone else’s decision, you’re not “advising.” Are you “saying,” “telling,” “informing,” “helping,” “notifying,” “specifying,” and so on? Maybe, sure. But what you’re not doing is “advising.”
2)“建議”——不是個(gè)糟糕的詞，只是太頻繁使用了。給個(gè)提示：如果你不是在針對他人的決定發(fā)表自己的看法，你就不是在“建議”。你是不是只是在“說”、“告訴”、“通知”、“幫助”、“通報(bào)”、“詳述”等等呢?
3) “Bandwidth” – Again, fine in one context, godawful in all others. Are we talking about data transfer speeds? Great! Are we talking about ability, capacity, capability, time, money, or people? …not so good.
3)“帶寬”——同樣也是在一定情境下沒問題，但其他情況就糟透了。我們是在說數(shù)據(jù)傳送的速度嗎?那么用這個(gè)詞很好。如果是在說能力、才能、時(shí)間、錢、或人呢?……這個(gè)詞可不怎么樣。
4) “Bottleneck” – One more of this breed, with a far simpler rule: if it’s not traffic, don’t say bottleneck. If it’s not a noun, don’t say bottleneck. If it’s a verb that means to “slow,” “hinder,” “impede,” or “obstruct,” then DON’T. SAY. BOTTLENECK.
4)“瓶頸”——又是這一類的詞，用法更簡單：如果不是談?wù)摻煌�，不要用這個(gè)詞。如果不是名詞，不要用這個(gè)詞。如果是動(dòng)詞，且表示“減緩”、“阻礙”、“阻塞”，那么直接使用這些詞就好了，不要用“瓶頸”。
5) “Empower” – Nelson Mandela empowers. Your iPhone does not. “Enhance” or “enable”? Sure.
5)“使……掌握自主權(quán)”——尼爾森·曼德拉讓人們擁有自主權(quán)，你的蘋果手機(jī)可不能。你想說的是“提高”或者“使能夠”吧!
6) “Impact” – Fortunately, this one at least has an actual reason for its recent popularity. Unfortunately, that reason is “too many executives can’t be bothered to learn the difference between ‘affect’ and ‘effect,’ and neither could their second-grade English teachers.”
6)“沖擊”——幸運(yùn)的是這個(gè)詞如此流行是有正當(dāng)原因的。不幸的是這個(gè)原因就是太多管理人員不愿意學(xué)習(xí)一下“affect”和“effect”的區(qū)別，他們的2年級英語老師也一樣。
7) “Leverage” – Again, let’s all be thankful someone found a shorter, more convenient way to say the word “use.”
7)“充分利用”——再次，我們謝謝某人發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)更短、更方便的詞——“使用”。
8) “Preplan” – What’s the opposite? “Postplan”? “Duringplan”? By its nature, planning is “pre” – if it’s not happening before, it’s not a plan: it’s a reaction.
8)“預(yù)計(jì)劃”——反義詞是什么呢?“后計(jì)劃”?“中計(jì)劃”?計(jì)劃本身就有提前的意思——如果計(jì)劃不是預(yù)先發(fā)生的話，就不叫計(jì)劃了，叫反應(yīng)。
9) “Robust” – Yet another normal, innocent word turned into a monster by corporate “repurposing.” This used to just mean “hearty,” “rugged,” or “vigorous” – not exactly words you’d think to apply to, say, a database software suite, right? And yet these days, 99% of the time this word is used to talk about programs that magically don’t crash every time you open them. There are even rumors that it’s spawned the terms “robustify,” “robusticity,” and even “robustification.” Pray they’re not true.
9)”穩(wěn)健的”——又是一個(gè)正常、無辜的詞因?yàn)楦淖冇猛咀兂闪岁愒~濫調(diào)。這個(gè)詞只表示“熱情友好”或“粗獷”或“強(qiáng)有力的”——而不是像你所想的那樣用來形容數(shù)據(jù)庫套裝軟件。然而現(xiàn)金，99%的情況下，這個(gè)單詞被用來形容軟件不會每次打開時(shí)都崩潰。甚至還有謠言說這個(gè)詞衍生出了動(dòng)詞“使……強(qiáng)健”和名詞“穩(wěn)健”及“穩(wěn)健化”。
10) “Solution” – Perhaps the biggest victim of them all, this word used to mean… SOMETHING. Now? It doesn’t.
10)“解決方案”——這個(gè)詞可能是最大的受害者了，這個(gè)詞過去曾用來表示“某事”，現(xiàn)在早就不用了。
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