annoyance 令人討厭的人或事

　　例:The target market has viewed the ad so many times that it no longer makes a positive impression, and, in fact, it may make a negative impression in the form of an annoyance.

　　annual general meeting 年度股東大會(根據(jù)法律規(guī)定每年舉行,出席的包括公司成員,股東和董事),簡稱AGM.口語里也稱the yearly shareholders' meeting.

　　例: The financial results will be announced at the annual general meeting.

　　annualization 年工時制

　　例: She also said companies might be able to implement the government's measures based on the "annualization" of working hours rather than a calculation week by week.

　　annual production 年產(chǎn)量

　　例: Within five years annual production went from 20 000 to 230 000 cars and the company founded its first South American subsidiary.

　　annual profit 年收益,年利潤

　　例: The company produces an annual profit of 25 million.

　　annual report 年報

　　例: An annual report is a document which tells you about the company's performance over the year.

　　appointment 任命,(聘任的)職位

　　例: There has been a new appointment to the board.

　　appraisal 評價,評估

　　例: annual appraisal interviews 年度能力評估面試

　　appointed 1 任命的

　　例1: Measures are taken to ensure that newly-appointed members of staff are integrated effectively into existing teams.

　　appreciation 增值,升值

　　例:For investors, innovation has translated into stong earnings growth and stock price appreciation.

　　approach to dialogue談話方式

　　例:Different language have their own approach to dialogue.

　　arrival notice到貨通知.

　　例:We have not yetreceived the carrier's arrival notice.

　　articles (在法律事務(wù)所)培訓(xùn)期,律師實習(xí)

　　例:She's doing her articles with a firm in London.

　　A share A股股票(持有者沒有投票權(quán)的普通股票)

　　例: But the A shares, off limits to foreign investors, were still among the best performers.

　　Asian crises of the late 1990s 90年代末亞洲金融危機

　　例:As Asian crises of the late 1990s illustrated, U.S.firms entering international business transactions need to be cautious of foreign governments.

　　as is 按現(xiàn)狀出售,概不保證,亦作as seen.

　　例:The goods are to be sold as is .

　　asking price 索要價,要價

　　例:Always negotiate, never pay the full asking price.

　　asleep at the switch 玩忽職守,坐失良機

　　例:Interest rates dropped significantly for a month before climbing back to higher levels, but our finance manager was asleep at the switch and failed to renegotiate our loans.

　　as of 自......起,等于as from

　　例:I would like to inform you that as of September 6, 2001,the new name for our company will be Sunrise.

　　as per 按照,依據(jù)

　　例:The client requested that we send our report to him on a computer disc, so we wrote a short note to him saying"as per your request, we are sending you our report on disc," and elclosed it with the disc.

　　aspirational group 帶領(lǐng)性消費群體,領(lǐng)導(dǎo)性消費群體

　　例:Our emulates certain reference groups(aspirational groups) whereas one is actually a member of other groups.

　　as seen 看貨買賣,現(xiàn)場交易(貨物按買者所見現(xiàn)狀出售,賣方不保證質(zhì)量)

　　例: If you buy at a car auction you take the vehicle as seen.

　　Assembly line 裝配線

　　e.g. He first worked on the shop floor on the assembly line. 他先是在工廠的裝配線上工作。

　　e.g. I hope that all the training programs they run for the staff on the assembly line might have begun to have an effect. 希望那些為工作在裝配線上的員工提供的專業(yè)培訓(xùn)，如今已經(jīng)開始發(fā)揮作用。