38 Useful Business Phrasal Verbs
Business Phrasal Verbs!
商务短语动词！
Learn business phrasal verbs and expressions commonly used in the workplace with meaning, examples and ESL pictures.
学习工作场所中常用的商务短语动词和表达方式，包括含义、例子和ESL图片。
Learn more business phrases with list of useful business idioms in English.
学习更多的商务短语，这里有一些有用的英文商务习语。
Business Phrasal Verbs
商务短语动词。
Common Business Phrasal Verbs (1)
商务常用短语动词(1)
Branch out
Meaning: Expand or extend one’s interests
Example: I’m leaving the company to branch out on my own.
我要离开公司，自己发展自己的事业。
Break into
Meaning: Enter (with effort or force)
Example: It’s always been his ambition to break into broadcasting.
进军广播业一直是他的抱负。
Carry on
Meaning: Continue
Example: He moved to New York to carry on his work.
他搬到纽约继续他的工作。
Close down
Meaning: Stop operating
Example: The firm has decided to close down its Chicago branch.
该公司已决定关闭芝加哥分公司。
Look forward to
Meaning: Feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen
Example: We look forward to hearing from you soon.
我们盼望着不久能听到您的回音。
Note down
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Meaning: Write something down
Example: Her answers were noted down on the chart.
她的答案记在图表上。
Common Business Phrasal Verbs (2)
Step down
Meaning: Resign or leave (a position/job)
Example: The chairman was forced to step down due to ill health.
主席因健康问题被迫下台。
Take off
Meaning: Become successful or popular very fast
Example: Her business has really taken off.
她的生意确实蒸蒸日上。
Take up
Meaning: Fill a particular amount of space or time
Example: These files take up a lot of disk space.
这些文件占用大量磁盘空间。
Weigh up (UK)
Meaning: Consider carefully the advantages or disadvantages of a situation
Example: I’m weighing up my options before I decide to apply for the job.
在我决定申请这份工作之前，我在权衡我的选择。
Back up
Meaning: Make a copy of information
Example: It’s a good idea to back up your files onto a memory stick.
把你的文件备份到记忆棒上是个好主意。
Carry out
Meaning: Do and complete a task
Example: The building work was carried out by a local contractor.
这项建筑工程是由当地一家承包商承建的。
Come up
Meaning: Happen or arise
Example: I’m going to have to cancel our meeting – something’s come up.
我不得不取消我们的会议–出了点事。
Common Business Phrasal Verbs (3)
Get on (UK)
Meaning: Continue or start doing something
Example: Can we please get on, because there are a lot of things still to discuss.
我们能不能继续，因为还有很多事情要讨论。
Keep up with
Meaning: Follow
Example: We try to keep up with what’s happening about financial news.
我们努力跟上财经新闻的动态。
Set up
Meaning: Start (a business)
Example: The group plans to set up an import business.
该集团计划开办进口业务。
Go through
Meaning: Experience something bad
Example: We can’t really imagine what our company’s going through.
我们真的无法想象我们公司正在经历什么。
Find out
Meaning: Discover a fact or piece of information
Example: Can you find out what our customers think of their local bus service?
你能了解一下我们的顾客对他们当地的公共汽车服务有什么看法吗？
Call off
Meaning: Cancel something
Example: With the weather worsening, they have called off their field trip.
随着天气恶化，他们取消了实地考察。
Call back
Meaning: To return a call or telephone someone again.
Example: I’ll call you back when I’ve heard something about the interview.
当我听到一些关于面试的消息时，我会给你回电话的。
Common Business Phrasal Verbs (4)
Deal with
Meaning: Handle (a problem)
Example: He’s good at dealing with pressure.
他善于应付压力。
Drop in
Meaning: Make a short visit without making an arrangement in advance
Example: Drop in whenever you want—I’ll be at the office all day.
你想什么时候来就什么时候来，我一整天都在办公室。
Fill out
Meaning: Complete (a form)
Example: It took me several hours to fill out the application form.
我花了几个小时填写申请表。
Hold on
Meaning: Wait
Example: We’ll hold on another minute, then we’ll have to go.
我们再等一分钟，然后我们就得走了。
Join in
Meaning: Participate
Example: We would be eager to join in projects of that sort.
我们将热切希望加入到这类项目中来。
Lay off
Meaning: Fire (staff)
Example: We have no plans in the immediate future to lay off workers.
我们在不久的将来没有裁员的计划。
Put back
Meaning: Delay or postpone
Example: The meeting has been put back to next week.
会议已推迟到下周举行。
Common Business Phrasal Verbs (5)
Run out of
Meaning: Have no more of something
Example: Many companies are running out of money.
许多公司的资金都快用完了。
Sort out
Meaning: Organise or fix
Example: We brought in a management consultant to sort out the mess.
我们请来了一位管理顾问来整理乱七八糟的东西。
Take on
Meaning: Employ (staff)
Example: We’re not taking on any new staff at the moment.
我们目前不招收任何新员工。
Take over
Meaning: To begin to have control of or responsibility for something
Example: He understands the business and can take over when I’m away.
他了解这项业务，可以在我不在的时候接手。
Bail out
Meaning: To rescue somebody from a difficult situation, especially financial problems
Example: The bank helped to bail out the struggling company.
银行帮助这家苦苦挣扎的公司摆脱困境。
Common Business Phrasal Verbs (6)
Cut back
Meaning: To reduce something
Example: In times of economic hardship, firms cut back on training.
在经济困难时期，公司削减了培训。
Go under
Meaning: To become bankrupt
Example: The firm will go under unless business improves.
除非生意好转，否则这家公司将倒闭。
Fall through
Meaning: If an agreement, plan, sale etc. falls through, it is not completed successfully
Example: The planned purchase of the racecourse fell through.
购买赛马场的计划落空了。
Pull out
Meaning: To move away from something or stop being involved in it
Example: The project became so expensive that we had to pull out.
这个项目太贵了，我们不得不退出。
Bottom out
Meaning: To stop getting worse
Example: Property prices are still falling, and show no signs of bottoming out.
房地产价格仍在下跌，而且没有触底的迹象。
Level off
Meaning: To stop rising or falling and become steady
Example: Inflation has begun to level off.
通货膨胀已开始趋于平稳。
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