商务英语：今日热词——潜逃

潜逃（不及物动词）

(intransitive verb) To steal something and leave with it quickly, usually in secret.

EXAMPLE: The big restaurant's owner did not like to keep much money in his restaurant because he was worried that one of his many employees might try to abscond with it.

这家大餐厅的老板不喜欢把太多的钱放在餐厅里，因为他担心手下可能有人想携款潜逃。

a fine kettle of fish

乱摊子（成语）

(IDIOM) A complicated, trouble-filled situation.

EXAMPLE: This morning when our new accountant saw a huge pile of incomplete and disorganized records sitting on her desk, she shook her head, laughed, and called it a fine kettle of fish!

今天上午，我们的新会计看到桌子上有一大堆混乱又不完整的档案，她摇着头笑了，说这是一个乱摊子。