商務英語：今日熱詞——近郊居住區(qū)

便攜式錄音機（名詞）

(noun) A large, portable radio and CD player that is quite powerful but still small enough to be carried on one shoulder. (NOTE: "boom" refers to the speakers'deeply resonant sound)

EXAMPLE: When he goes to the beach, my son always takes a boombox so he can listen to his favorite CDs.

去海灘時，我的兒子總是帶著一臺便攜式錄音機，聽他最喜歡的CD。

bedroom community

近郊居住區(qū)

A residential area without industries or businesses that only serves as a pleasant place for people to live, but not work.

EXAMPLE: If they can afford it, many executives and their families prefer to live in bedroom communities outside the crowded large cities where they work.

只要有錢，很多經理和他們的家人都喜歡居住在他們工作的擁擠大城市外的近郊居住區(qū)。