商務英語：今日熱詞——激烈競爭

學齡兒童

(noun, INFORMAL) A child who is either attending school, or is of the correct age to attend school (elementary school or secondary school, not university) (NOTE: "kid" means "baby goat" and is an informal term for child)

例句

EXAMPLE: The clothing company realized that many children nowadays often make their own decisions about buying clothes, and so the firm directed its advertising towards the average schoolkid instead of his parents

那家服裝公司發現，當今許多孩子都自己決定買什么樣的衣服，所以公司把廣告受眾定為普通學齡兒童，而不是其父母。

激烈競爭

The daily struggle to survive and prosper in a competitive business environment (NEGATIVE)

EXAMPLE: My brother makes a lot of money working sixty hours every week in New York but he's rather unhappy. I think he's really tired of the rat race.

我哥哥在紐約一周工作60小時，掙錢很多，但卻很不快樂。我想是激烈的競爭讓他倍感厭倦。