商務英語：今日熱詞——活動

活動（復數名詞，非正式）

(plural noun, INFORMAL) Activities. (NOTE: always plural)

EXAMPLE: When my brother travels abroad he always sends me long email descriptions of his various goings-on.

當我的兄弟在國外旅行時，他總是給我寫很長的郵件，描述他的各種活動。

失敗的開端（非正式）

(INFORMAL) A wrong beginning; a temporary failure in starting to do something.

EXAMPLE: I had to write a speech last night, and after several false starts, I finally found exactly the right words to express what I wanted to say.

我昨晚必須要寫一篇演講稿，開頭寫了好幾回都沒寫好，最終，我找到了恰當的詞語來表達我想說的內容。