10月11日商务英语
《财富》(中文版)
2010年10月11日
tailspin; to wrap something up
今日单词：
| 单词 |
tailspin ['teilspin]
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| 中文释义 |
1.急剧下滑（名词，非正式用语）； 2.飞机快速下坠（名词）
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| 英文释义 |
1. (noun,INFORMAL) A period of severe decline that will lead to failure. 2. (noun) An airplane’s rapid, spiral descent.
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| 例句 |
EXAMPLE 1: When the founder of our company died and most of our managers took jobs with our competitors, our business went into a tailspin. 我们公司的创始人去世，大部分经理转投竞争对手，我们的业务一落千丈。 EXAMPLE 2: When its rudder broke, the small airplane went into a tailspin and crashed. 这架小飞机的方向舵断了，它迅速坠毁。 |
今日短语：
| 短语 |
to wrap something up |
| 中文释义 |
收尾
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| 英文释义 |
Informal expression meaning to finish the remaining aspects of something, such as a task, so it is fully completed.
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| 例句 |
EXAMPLE: The long project is nearly finished and I think we can wrap it up next week. 这个长期项目基本完成，我想下周我们就可以收尾了。 |
