邮件翻译 超实用的邮件万能短语

　　100 Commonly Used Business Phrasal Verbs with Examples

　　100个常用商务短语动词举例

　　1. Aim for – to make it a goal or target.

　　1.目标-使之成为目标或目标。

　　You need to aim for four more clients this month.

　　这个月你需要争取另外四个客户。

　　2. Ask around – to ask multiple people to find the answer to something.

　　2.四处询问——让多个人找到某件事情的答案。

　　Tim, could you please ask around and find out what causing this problem?

　　蒂姆，你能四处问问是什么引起这个问题吗?

　　3. Back up #1 – To make a copy of something to protect against loss.

　　三.备份1–复制一些东西以防丢失。

　　Please make sure to back up all your work each day on the company’s server.

　　请确保每天在公司服务器上备份所有工作。

　　4. Back up #2 – To talk about an earlier point in a conversation.

　　4.倒退2–谈论谈话的前一点。

　　Let’s back up for a minute. You said earlier that the customer couldn’t log in?

　　让我们往前一分钟。你刚才说客户不能登录?

　　5. Bail out – to save from, or pull out of, failure/loss. (most often using money).

　　5.纾困——从失败/损失中拯救或撤出。(最常用的是用钱)。

　　In 2008-2009, the US government had to bail out many banks.

　　2008-2009年，美国政府不得不救助许多银行。

　　Bail out of – to leave quickly when unfinished. (see also: pull out)

　　跳出-未完成时快速离开。(另请参见：拉出)

　　We had to bail out of the Sydney deal. We didn’t have the manpower to complete it.

　　我们不得不从悉尼交易中脱身。我们没有人力来完成。

　　Bank on – to count on something or base plans on expecting it to happen.

　　指望——指望某事或计划能发生。

　　The design team at Toyota were banking on the new Escobar line to be a success.

　　丰田的设计团队指望新的Escobar系列能取得成功。

　　Be snowed under – to have a lot or too much work to do.

　　被大雪覆盖-有很多或太多的工作要做。

　　I am snowed under this week. Can we do it next week?

　　这星期我下雪了。我们下周能做吗?

　　Booked out – when all tickets or spaces are already reserved or taken.

　　已预订-当所有车票或车位都已预订或占用时。

　　Our business event is nearly booked out because of ticket pre-orders.

　　由于预购机票，我们的商务活动几乎被预订一空。

　　Branch out – to start something new that is similar and in addition to what you have been doing.

　　开拓领域-开始一些新的东西，是相似的，除了你一直在做的。

　　The electric car company, Tesla, is branching out into the motorcycle industry.

　　电动汽车公司特斯拉正在向摩托车行业发展。

　　Break down – to make something into smaller parts.

　　分解-把某物分成更小的部分。

　　We need to break down our sales process to see where we can improve it.

　　我们需要打破我们的销售流程，看看我们能在哪里改进它。

　　Break into – to enter a new market (with effort).

　　打入一个新的市场。

　　It’s tough to break into the beauty industry right now.

　　现在很难打入美容行业。

　　Bring forward – to move a deadline or agreed time closer to now.

　　提前-将最后期限或约定的时间移到现在。

　　Do you mind if we bring our meeting forward to 3 o’clock?

　　你介意我们把会议提前到3点吗?

　　Bring off – to successfully achieve something that is difficult to do.

　　成功地完成一些很难做到的事情。

　　Tony promised two times more sales this March. Think he can bring it off?

　　托尼答应今年三月再增加两倍的销售量。你觉得他能成功吗?

　　Bring up – to begin a discussion on a topic.

　　提出-开始一个话题的讨论。

　　I would like to bring up the problems we’re facing in our Asian factories.

　　我想提出我们在亚洲工厂面临的问题。

　　Burn out – to become sick or exhausted because of working too much.

　　筋疲力尽——由于工作太多而生病或筋疲力尽。

　　Jill looks burned out this year. I think the change of job has been tough for her.

　　吉尔今年看起来精疲力尽。我认为换工作对她来说很难。

　　Buy out – to buy a large enough portion of a company to take control of it.

　　收购——收购一家公司足够大的一部分来控制它。

　　Many companies buy out their competitors to increase their market share.

　　许多公司买下竞争对手以增加他们的市场份额。

　　Call back – to phone someone in reply to their (missed) call.

　　回拨-给某人打电话以回复他们(未接)的电话。

　　Sarah, could you tell Tom I’ll call him back later? I’m going to a meeting right now.

　　莎拉，你能告诉汤姆我过会儿再打给他吗?我现在要去开会。

　　Call for – to demand or need something.

　　要求-要求或需要某物。

　　The shareholders are calling for the CEO’s resignation.

　　股东们要求首席执行官辞职。

　　Call off – to cancel.

　　取消–取消。

　　Sorry John, I’m going to have to call off our business lunch tomorrow.

　　对不起，约翰，我明天要取消我们的商务午餐。

　　Carry on – to continue to do something.

　　继续-继续做某事。

　　Carry on with your lunch. We can discuss it later.

　　继续吃午饭吧。我们可以稍后再讨论。

　　Carry out – to perform an action.

　　执行-执行一个动作。

　　Steve will carry out our social media campaign starting next month.

　　史蒂夫将从下个月开始开展我们的社交媒体活动。

　　Cash in on – to use an event or external opportunity in your benefit (normally for money).

　　兑现——利用一个事件或外部机会为自己谋取利益(通常是为了钱)。

　　Colgate is cashing in on market interest in natural products with a new organic toothpaste.

　　高露洁正在利用一种新的有机牙膏在市场上对天然产品的兴趣。

　　Cash up – to keep/hold large amounts of money instead of investing or spending it.

　　套现——保留/持有大量资金，而不是投资或消费。

　　Apple is cashed up and ready to buy small tech companies.

　　苹果已经兑现并准备收购小型科技公司。

　　Catch on to – to realize something that is happening.

　　抓住-意识到正在发生的事情。

　　If large media companies don’t catch on to social media quickly, they’ll go out of business.

　　如果大型媒体公司不迅速赶上社交媒体，它们就会倒闭。

　　Catch up – to become up to date with current work to be done.

　　赶上进度-跟上当前要完成的工作。

　　I need to catch up with some work I haven’t finished.

　　我需要赶上一些我还没做完的工作。

　　Chase up – to try and get someone to pay a bill.

　　追查——试着找人付账。

　　Tesla has a whole team of accountants who chase up unpaid invoices.

　　特斯拉有一个完整的会计团队负责追查未付的发票。

　　Chip in – to put something in towards a greater goal (normally ideas, work, or money).

　　投入——把某物投入一个更大的目标(通常是想法、工作或金钱)。

　　Jerry, could you chip in and help the guys in the factory today?

　　杰瑞，你今天能插手帮助工厂里的人吗?

　　Close down – to permanently stop a business, or part of a business.

　　关闭-永久性地停止一项业务或一部分业务。

　　We are closing down our Mexico factory next quarter.

　　下个季度我们将关闭墨西哥工厂。

　　Close up – to temporarily stop or close a business (at the end of each day for example).

　　关闭-暂时停止或关闭业务(例如每天结束时)。

　　Could you help Sarah close up the shop tonight?

　　今晚你能帮莎拉把商店关起来吗?

　　Come up –to happen or be created.

　　出现-发生或被创造。

　　Something unplanned has come up and we won’t make our deadline.

　　有些意外的事情发生了，我们不能按时完成。

　　Contract out to – to give work to someone outside of the company to do.

　　把工作交给公司以外的人去做。

　　We’re going to contract our website design out to an Indian company

　　我们将把网站设计外包给一家印度公司

　　Cross sell – to promote or suggest similar products at the time of customers purchase.

　　交叉销售-在客户购买时推广或建议同类产品。

　　Companies like Vista Print and Amazon use cross selling to maximize spending.

　　像vista print和amazon这样的公司使用交叉销售来最大化支出。

　　Cut out – to get rid of, or take away, something/someone.

　　删掉-去掉或拿走某物/某人。

　　If we cut out the middle man we can lower our costs.

　　如果我们去掉中间人，我们就能降低成本。

　　Deal with – to handle, work, or interact with, something/someone.

　　处理-处理、工作或与某物/某人互动。

　　Our company deals with dentists all over the country.

　　我们公司与全国各地的牙医打交道。

　　Draw up – to prepare paperwork/contracts/plans/etc. Normally to do with written work.

　　起草-准备书面文件/合同/计划等。

　　Let’s talk again after Timothy in our legal department draws up a contract.

　　我们法律部的蒂莫西起草合同后再谈吧。

　　Drop in/by – to visit.

　　顺便来看看。

　　Greg from head office is going to drop in

　　总部的格雷格要来拜访。

　　Drop off – to deliver something.

　　下车-送东西。

　　The FedEx guy dropped off something for you this morning, sir.

　　今天早上联邦快递的人给你送了东西，先生。

　　Drum up – to increase or gain something. Normally business/sales/awareness/customers.

　　鼓起-增加或获得某物。通常业务/销售/意识/客户。

　　Little bakeries are having a hard time drumming up business after Tesco opened its own in-store bakeries.

　　在乐购开设自己的店内面包店后，小面包店正忙着打鼓生意。

　　Fall short – to not have enough of something. Often money or time.

　　做不到-没有足够的东西。通常是金钱或时间。

　　If a cash register falls short, the cashier has to pay the difference themselves.

　　如果收银机缺钱，出纳员必须自己付差额。

　　Fall through – to not be successful. To fail or lose something.

　　失败-不成功。失败或失去某物

　　Google had a deal to sell to Yahoo! ten years ago but it fell through.

　　谷歌有一笔交易要卖给雅虎!十年前但是失败了。

　　File away – to put in organized storage (normally documents, and files)

　　文件存放-存放在有组织的存储中(通常是文档和文件)

　　Remember to file away those invoices after you’re finished with them.

　　别忘了把那些发票用完后归档。

　　Fill in for – to temporarily replace something or someone.

　　填写-临时替换某物或某人。

　　Can you come into work today? We need someone to fill in for Sam, who’s sick.

　　你今天能上班吗?山姆病了，我们需要有人来代替他。

　　Fill out – to complete or put details into a form or survey.

　　填写-完成或将细节放入表格或调查中。

　　Could you please take the time to fill out our customer survey?

　　请您花点时间填写我们的客户调查表好吗?

　　Find out – look for information or to discover something previously unknown.

　　发现-寻找信息或发现以前未知的东西。

　　Tom, please find out what happened to the supplier’s delivery.

　　汤姆，请查查供应商的交货情况。

　　Get ahead – to become successful in your career or business.

　　勇往直前-在事业或事业上取得成功。

　　You have to be tough to get ahead in the finance industry.

　　要想在金融业取得领先地位，你必须坚强。

　　Get on – to make improvement or progress.

　　继续前进-取得进步或进步。

　　How did you get on with the marketing plan this week?

　　这周你是如何进行市场营销计划的?

　　Go through – to read, discuss, or examine something, usually paper.

　　阅读，讨论，或检查一些东西，通常是纸。

　　Tom from legal will get back to us after going through the contracts.

　　法务部的汤姆在签完合同后会回来找我们的。

　　Hire out – to allow others to use a resource you own in return for money.

　　出租-允许他人使用你拥有的资源来换取金钱。

　　The boss wants to hire out the 3rd floor of our office building to a small business.

　　老板想把我们办公楼的三楼出租给一家小企业。

　　Hold off on – to postpone something until a later date.

　　推迟——把某事推迟到以后的日期。

　　They will need to hold off on the release of their new phone until they fix the battery.

　　他们需要推迟新手机的发布，直到他们修好电池。

　　Hold on – to wait (usually for a small period of time).

　　坚持——等待(通常是很小的一段时间)。

　　Please hold on for a minute until I finish this call.

　　请稍等，直到我打完电话。

　　Hold out – to wait before taking action or remain in the same difficult situation.

　　坚持——在行动之前等待，或处于同样困难的境地。

　　Sir, I think we should hold out for a better offer before selling.

　　先生，我想我们应该在出售前先争取一个更好的报价。

　　Hone in on – to focus on one thing. Or, to focus down in detail.

　　专注于一件事。或者，把注意力放在细节上。

　　GoPro has been successful in honing in on the extreme sports market.

　　Gopro已经成功地在极限运动市场上磨练了。

　　Join in on – to take part in an activity.

　　参加-参加一项活动。

　　Let’s get Steve from accounting to join in on this meeting.

　　让会计部的史蒂夫参加这次会议。

　　Keep up with – to stay up to date. Or to stay at the same level or speed as something else.

　　跟上-保持最新。或者保持与其他事物相同的水平或速度。

　　Small businesses find it difficult to keep up with technology changes.

　　小企业发现很难跟上技术的变化。

　　Key in – to type something on a computer or keyboard.

　　键入-在计算机或键盘上键入内容。

　　We’re looking for a data entry specialist to key in customer’s purchase history.

　　我们正在寻找一个数据输入专家来输入客户的购买历史。

　　Knuckle down – to focus on the task or job to be done.

　　全神贯注——专注于要完成的任务或工作。

　　The design team will have to really knuckle down to finish this by Christmas.

　　设计团队必须全力以赴在圣诞节前完成这项工作。

　　Lay off – to fire. To tell to leave the company.

　　解雇-解雇。告诉他离开公司。

　　They had to lay off He was stealing paperclips.

　　他们不得不解雇他，因为他在偷回形针。

　　Look into – to research to find more information.

　　调查-研究以发现更多信息。

　　Our office keeps losing paperclips. Can you please look into it Stacy?

　　我们的办公室老是丢回形针。你能帮我查一下吗史黛西?

　　Look through – to examine or read briefly on the surface

　　浏览-在表面上检查或简短地阅读

　　The team had a quick look through your proposal.

　　小组很快就看完了你的建议。

　　Look up to – to respect and admire.

　　尊敬-尊敬和钦佩。

　　I know you look up to Larry like a father, which makes this hard.

　　我知道你像父亲一样尊敬拉里，这让事情变得很难。

　　Make up – to compensate for something. (also see: Catch up)

　　补偿-补偿某物。(另见：追赶)

　　There’s a lot to do today. The office needs to make up for being closed last week.

　　今天有很多事要做。这间办公室需要弥补上星期关门的损失。

　　Measure up – to be at the right level or good enough to do something.

　　衡量——处于正确的水平或足够好地做某事。

　　We hired an ex-Apple Marketing Director. I hope he measures up to expectations.

　　我们雇了一位前苹果市场总监。我希望他能达到预期。

　　Meet up – to get together.

　　相聚——相聚。

　　The department heads are meeting up next week to talk about Larry’s behavior.

　　部门主管下周开会讨论拉里的行为。

　　note down – to write something quickly to use again later.

　　记下来——快速地写下一些东西以便以后再次使用。

　　Stacy, could you join us and note down the key points to the meeting?

　　史黛西，你能和我们一起记下会议的要点吗?

　　Pencil in – To make flexible plans for something that can still change.

　　临时安排-为一些仍然可以改变的事情制定灵活的计划。

　　Shall we pencil in next Wednesday at 1 pm for your interview?

　　我们下星期三下午一点来面试好吗?

　　Phone up – to call by phone.

　　打电话——打电话。

　　Customers have been phoning up with complaints about the new Furby toy.

　　顾客们一直打电话投诉新的富比玩具。

　　Pick up – to increase or improve after a period of slow or no results.

　　恢复-在一段时间缓慢或没有结果后增加或改善。

　　Business really has really picked up since the month of June.

　　六月份以来生意真的很好。

　　Point out – to bring attention to something.

　　指出-引起对某事的注意。

　　I need to point out that we have not yet decided on new product’s name yet.

　　我需要指出的是，我们还没有决定新产品的名称。

　　Pull out of – to stop doing something. Or, to stop being a part of something.

　　退出-停止做某事。或者，停止成为某件事的一部分。

　　Many companies are pulling out of their advertising contracts with YouTube.

　　许多公司正退出与youtube的广告合同。

　　Put back –to stall or delay something to a later date (also see: Hold off on)

　　推迟——推迟或推迟某物的日期(另见：推迟)

　　The delivery date will be put back by two days because of the hurricane.

　　由于飓风的影响，交货期将推迟两天。

　　Put off – to know longer feel positive about something.

　　推迟——去了解更多对某事的积极感觉。

　　Many Samsung customers were put off by the Note 7 battery problems.

　　许多三星的客户被Note7电池问题耽搁了。

　　Report Back – to return to a boss or superior person with new information found.

　　向上司或上级汇报新的信息。

　　It’s part of your job to report back any issues you find within the company’s servers.

　　报告在公司服务器中发现的任何问题是您工作的一部分。

　　Rip off – when a product/service is expensive in comparison to its value.

　　次品-当产品/服务比它的价值昂贵时。

　　Some say the iPhone 7 is a rip off because little has been changed since the iPhone 6.

　　有人说iPhone7是个骗局，因为自iPhone6以来几乎没有什么变化。

　　Run by / past – to check with someone first.

　　路过/路过-先和某人确认一下。

　　Shouldn’t we run it by the supervisor, first?

　　我们不应该先由主管来处理吗?

　　Run late – when you will not be somewhere at the planned time.

　　晚点——你不会在计划的时间出现在某个地方。

　　He is running a little late this morning because of traffic.

　　由于交通堵塞，他今天早上有迟到。

　　Run out of – to not have any more of an item.

　　用完-不再拥有任何物品。

　　We are about to run out of printing ink, could you order more, please?

　　我们的墨水快用完了，请再点一点好吗?

　　Sell off – to sell a part of or a whole business.

　　出售-出售部分或全部业务。

　　Nokia plans to sell off its mobile phone department to Samsung.

　　诺基亚计划将其手机部门出售给三星。

　　Sell out – to have sold all items of something with nothing left.

　　卖完——把某物的所有东西都卖光了。

　　We always sell out of that perfume brand during this time of year.

　　在每年的这个时候，我们总是卖掉那个香水品牌。

　　Set up – to arrange/create. Or, to start a new business or a new department of a business

　　设置-安排/创建。或者，开办一家新公司或一个新部门

　　Virgin Airways plans to set up offices in Berlin next year.

　　维珍航空计划明年在柏林设立办事处。

　　Shop around – to compare prices and products at different places before buying.

　　货比三家——在购买前比较不同地方的价格和产品。

　　Most large companies constantly shop around for the cheapest materials.

　　大多数大公司经常到处采购最便宜的材料。

　　Sign off on – to formally approve of something

　　签字-正式批准某事

　　You’re going to need the boss to sign off on this order.

　　你需要老板在这张订单上签字。

　　Sign up – to agree to receive or to do something.

　　注册-同意接收或做某事。

　　Many website companies want their site’s visitors to sign up for a newsletter.

　　许多网站公司希望他们网站的访问者注册一份时事通讯。

　　Sort out – to fix or solve a problem.

　　解决-解决或解决一个问题。

　　The company had to recall all the phones to sort out the battery problem.

　　公司不得不召回所有的电话来解决电池问题。

　　Spell out – to explain in plain and simple terms.

　　用简单明了的语言解释。

　　Tech companies need to really spell out their product’s advantages to customers.

　　科技公司需要真正向客户阐明他们产品的优势。

　　Step Down – to give up their position or title.

　　下台-放弃他们的职位或头衔。

　　The CEO of Malaysia Airways stepped down on Tuesday after the news report.

　　马来西亚航空首席执行官周二在新闻报道后辞职。

　　Step up – to try/work harder

　　更上一层楼-努力工作

　　Our company needs to step it up if we want to compete with Tesla.

　　如果我们想和特斯拉竞争，我们公司需要加大力度。

　　Stock up – to collect or buy a lot of something.

　　备货——收集或购买很多东西。

　　Most restaurants stock up on champagne before New Year’s Eve.

　　大多数餐馆在除夕夜前都备有香槟。

　　Take off #1 – to become highly successful or popular quickly.

　　迅速走红1-迅速成为非常成功或受欢迎的人。

　　The Harry Potter books took off even faster than the publisher expected.

　　哈利波特的书比出版商预期的要快得多。

　　Take off #2 – to not go to work.

　　请假2-不去上班。

　　Boss, can I take Tuesday off to visit my friend in the hospital?

　　老板，星期二我可以请假去医院看我的朋友吗?

　　Take on – to accept or agree to deal with.

　　接受或同意处理。

　　The boss thinks that you’ve taken on too much work and wants me to help you.

　　老板认为你承担了太多的工作，要我帮你。

　　Take over – to gain control. Or, to do something someone else was responsible for.

　　接管-获得控制权。或者，做别人应该负责的事。

　　The Financial controller has taken over the accountants duties.

　　财务总监接管了会计师的职责。

　　Talk over – to discuss a topic for decision.

　　讨论-讨论一个要做决定的话题。

　　Let’s talk it over tomorrow during the Sales meeting.

　　我们明天在销售会议上再谈吧。

　　Team up – to work together with another on something.

　　团队合作-在某件事情上与另一个人一起工作。

　　Malcolm and John, you two team up to solve this issue.

　　马尔科姆和约翰，你们两个一起解决这个问题。

　　Trade in – to give something old as part of the price paid for new things.

　　以旧换新——以旧换新。

　　All customers get $100 off the new S8 when trading in their old S7.

　　所有顾客在旧的s7上交易时都能从新的s8上得到100美元的折扣。

　　Trade off – to negotiate or make a deal

　　权衡——谈判或达成交易

　　I had to trade off my paid vacation leave for a smaller workload.

　　我不得不把带薪休假换成一个小工作量的工作。

　　Turn down – to reject or say no.

　　拒绝-拒绝或拒绝。

　　He turned down my request for a raise

　　他拒绝了我的加薪要求

　　Up sell – to promote a more premium product option or add-ons during the sales process.

　　追加销售–在销售过程中推广更优质的产品选项或附加组件。

　　McDonald’s up sells at every opportunity. “Want to make it jumbo size for $1?”

　　麦当劳每一个机会都在销售。“想把它做成1美元的特大号吗?“。”

　　Weigh up – to think about both sides of something. Ie cost vs benefit.

　　举重——思考事物的两面。即成本与效益。

　　A company must weigh up the costs and benefits when changing their pricing.

　　公司在改变定价时必须权衡成本和收益。

　　Work out –to find the solution for something or to calculate something.

　　解决-为某事找到解决方案或计算某事。

　　The boss wants me to work out the total cost per unit.

　　老板要我计算出每个单位的总成本。