The administrative overheads of a business are low to the extent that everyone working in the business can be trusted to behave in a way that best promotes the interests of the firm.
如果企业中的每个人都在真诚地为提高企业利润而工作,那么企业的管理费用就会降低到相应的程度。
新概念英语第四册
Lesson 36 The cost of government
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 程度;长度;广大地域;扣押;
💡 ex出+tent伸展;扩大→伸出去的范围 → 范围;程度
"It is difficult to assess the full extent of the damage."
损失情况难以全面估计。
近义:largeness, magnitude, size, bigness, limits, outreach
vi. 表现;举止端正;自然反应;
vt. 使守规矩;
💡 be表示动作+have持有→[一个人]拥有的动作→举动,举止
"I would never have expected her to behave in such an underhand way."
我从未想到她的行为竟如此阴险。
近义:act, deal, demean, deport
反义:underact
adj. 坚固的,坚牢的;坚定的,坚决的;严格的;确定的;
vt.& vi. 使坚固;使坚实;
n. 商号,商行;公司;企业;工作集体;
adv. 坚定地,稳固地;
vt. 使坚定,使牢固;
vi. 变坚实,变稳固;
💡 firm =firm,表示”坚定,坚固”
"The company has now amalgamated with another local firm."
这家公司现在已与当地一家公司合并了。
近义:office, bureau, business, company, concern, corporation
反义:astable, astatic, precarious, unsettled, unsteady, wobbly
pron. 每人,人人;
💡 every每个的+one一个人→ pron.每人,人人
"The news astonished everyone."
这消息使大家十分惊讶。
近义:all, everybody
adj. 管理的,行政的;行政职位;非战斗性行政勤务的;
"The administrative burden must be lifted from local government."
必须解除地方政府的行政负担.
近义:manager, managerial, organisational, organizational, supervisory, management