学术英语(管理)课文翻译

Unit 1

When faced with both economic problems and increasing competition not only from firms in the united states but also from international firms located in other parts of the world, employee and managers now began to ask the question：what do we do now? although this is a fair question, it is difficult to answer. Certainly, for a college student taking business courses or be beginning employee just staring a career, the question is even more difficult to answer. And yet there are still opportunities out there d=for people who are willing to work hard, continue to learn, and possess the ability to adapt to change.

当面对不仅来自美国的公司而且来自位于世界其他地方的国际公司的经济问题和日益激烈的竞争时，员工和经理现在开始要问一个问题：我们要做什么？虽然这是一个很清晰的问题，但是它是很难回答的。当然，对于一个正在谈论商务课程的大学生或者一个刚开始职业生涯的员工来说，这个问题更难回答。但目前仍然有许多机会给那些愿意努力工作，继续学习并且拥有适应变化的能力的人。

Whether you want to obtain part-time employment to pay college and living expense, begin your career as a full –time employee, or start a business, you must bring something to the table that makes you different from the next person . Employee and our capitalistic economic systems are more demanding than ever before. Ask yourself: What can I do that will make employee want to pay me a salary? What skills do I have that employers need? With these questions in mind, we begin with another basic question: Why study business?

There are at least four quite compelling reasons.

无论你想获得可以用来支付大学和生活开销的兼职，作为一个全职员工开始你的职业生涯，或者创业，你都应该拿出可以让你不同于其他人的东西。雇主和我们的资本主义经济体系比以往更加苛刻。问问你自

己：我怎样做才能让我的雇主愿意支付我一份薪水？我拥有什么技能是雇主所需要的？在脑海里带着这两个问题，我们开始另一个基本的问题：为什么学习商务。

这里有四个令人完全信服的理由。

For help in choosing a career

What do you want to do with the rest of your life? Someplace, sometime, someone probably has asked you this same question. And like many people, you may find it a difficult question to answer. B y studying business, you will be introduced to a wide array of employment opportunities. In private enterprise, these range from small, local businesses owned by one individual to large companies such as American Express and Marriott International that are owned by thousands of stockholders. There are also employment opportunities with federal, state, county, and local governments and with not-for-profit organization such as the Red Cross and Save the Children.

1. 在职业选择上的帮助：

你希望用你剩余的生命做什么事？某地，某时，某人也许问过你这个同样的问题。然而就像许多人，你会发现这是一个很难回答的问题。通过学习商务知识，你将被引入到一个广泛的就业机会，在私营企业中，范围是从由个人所拥有的小型、本地企业到比如美国运通公司或者万豪国际集团这些由成千上万的股东共同拥有的大型公司。在联邦，州，县，以及地方政府部门与非营利组织如红十字会和救助儿童会等同样有着就业机会。

One thing to remember as you think about what your ideal career might be is that a person’s choice of a career ultimately is just a reflection of what he or she values and holds most important. What will give one individual personal satisfaction may not satisfy another. What you choose to do with your life will be based on what you feel is most important. And the you is a very important part of that decision.