商务英语：今日热词——激烈竞争

学龄儿童

(noun, INFORMAL) A child who is either attending school, or is of the correct age to attend school (elementary school or secondary school, not university) (NOTE: "kid" means "baby goat" and is an informal term for child)

例句

EXAMPLE: The clothing company realized that many children nowadays often make their own decisions about buying clothes, and so the firm directed its advertising towards the average schoolkid instead of his parents

那家服装公司发现，当今许多孩子都自己决定买什么样的衣服，所以公司把广告受众定为普通学龄儿童，而不是其父母。

激烈竞争

The daily struggle to survive and prosper in a competitive business environment (NEGATIVE)

EXAMPLE: My brother makes a lot of money working sixty hours every week in New York but he's rather unhappy. I think he's really tired of the rat race.

我哥哥在纽约一周工作60小时，挣钱很多，但却很不快乐。我想是激烈的竞争让他倍感厌倦。