2015年11月23日 每天半小时学英语

• 中文素材
  每一个有能力的人，无论他们的专长是工程还是营销，都会被企业争抢；而拥有充足利润空间(profit margin)以及巨大现金流(cash-flows)的大公司，愿意为留存公司里最优秀的人才或聘用聪明的毕业生而支付高薪。
• 英文原文 from Financial Times of London
  Every capable person ,whether their forte is engineering or marketing ,will be keenly fought over;and the large companies,with their ample profit margins and huge cash-flows,are prepared to pay king’s ransoms to retain their best employees or recruit the smart graduates.
• 中英切换
  1）Every capable【有能力的】 person ,whether their forte【专长】 is engineering or marketing ,will be keenly【强烈地】 fought over【为…争抢】
  2）而拥有充足利润空间【profit margin】以及巨大现金流【cash-flow】的大公司：and the large companies, [插入语with their ample profit margins and huge cash-flows],
  3）愿意为留存公司里最优秀的人才或聘用聪明的毕业生而支付高薪：are prepared to（准备好=愿意） pay king’s ransoms to【支付国王的赎金=支付高额费用给】 retain【保留，留存】 their best employees or recruit【雇佣】 the smart graduates.
• 重要语法点
  1）插入语：可从句可成分；Every capable person, [whether their forte is engineering or marketing,] will be keenly fought over. / The large companies, [with their ample profit margins and huge cash-flows], are prepared to
  2）or（and）平行结构：一样的主语，对等的结构，形式一致；whether their forte is [engineering] or [marketing]/… to [retain their best employees] or [recruit the smart graduates].
• 好词好句
  1）fight over：为…争抢；例句：Western powers 【西方列强】have intervened 【干涉】in issues of Middle East with the purpose of fighting over oil resources.
  2）profit margins：利润空间；例句：High profit margins will attract many enterprises to enter this field.
  3）pay king’s ransoms to：支付高额的费用；例句：He has paid king’s ransoms to buy a villa 【别墅】beside the sea.