天天商务英语学习【语音+文本】
[table=98%][tr][td=1,1,357][align=left][color=#000033]天天商务英语词汇[/color][/align][/td][td=1,1,57][align=center][url=http://www.youmars.com/kj/mm20081031/mttx08/20081124_white-knight.mp3][color=#0000ff]语音下载[/color][/url][/align][/td][td=1,1,175][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][color=#0000ff][/color] [/font][/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr=#ffffff][td=2,1][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][color=#990000]white knight (noun)[/color][/size][/font][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][color=#990000] [/color][/size][/font]白衣骑士[/align][/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,94][align=center]解释[/align][/td][td=1,1,550][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]a person or organization that rescues a company from an unfavourable takeover bid[/size][/font][/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td=1,1,95][align=center]例句[/align][/td][td=1,1,549][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]We're still hoping for a white knight to fight the hostile bid.[/size][/font][/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%,incnew][tr][td=1,1,30] [/td][td=1,1,611][table=98%][tr][td=1,1,355][align=left][color=#000033]天天商务英语报道[/color][/align][/td][td=1,1,62][align=center][url=http://www.youmars.com/kj/mm20081031/mttx08/20081124_Corporate-board-members-bowing-out.mp3][color=#0000ff]语音下载 [/color][/url][/align][/td][td=1,1,175][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][color=#0000ff][/color] [/font][/align][/td][/tr][/table][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][size=3][color=#990000]Corporate board members bowing out[/color][/size][/font][font=Bookman Old Style]企业董事会成员退场[/font][/align][table=359][tr][td][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]The financial crisis is putting so much pressure on top company executives that many of them are leaving posts on the boards of other corporations because it's just too much. Renita Jablonski reports.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style]金融危机给很多公司的高管扣上了沉重的压力，很多人都离开了其它一些企业的董事会，因为这些压力对他们来说太难以承受了。Renita Jablonski报导。[/font]
[/td][/tr][/table][/td][td][table=176][tr][td][img]http://www.youmars.com/kj/mm20081031/mttpic/20081124_Corporate-board-members-bowing-out.jpg[/img][/td][/tr][/table][/td][/tr][/table][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Kai Ryssdal:[/b] Corporate America is in something of a crisis, as you know. That means meetings -- lots of them. For some who sit on corporate boards, all that time around the table or on conference calls is getting to be too much. Especially when you consider that many directors serve on more than one board, or they run their own big -- and troubled -- companies. An analysis published today by The Wall Street Journal shows 42 firms have lost big-name corporate directors this year. And, wouldn't you know it, they're in hard-hit industries like retail, housing and financial services. Marketplace's Renita Jablonski reports on the growing number of empty seats about the boardroom table.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Renita Jablonski:[/b] Ford Motor Company has a lot to figure out right now, like how to convince the government to bail it out. Mark Truby is director of corporate communications at Ford.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Mark Truby:[/b] The board's input and direction in times like this is very valuable.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]But board members' time is valuable too. Ford lost two high-profile directors last month -- the chairman of Britain's Vodafone and the chairman of Nokia and Royal Dutch Shell.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Truby: [/b]We're asking quite a lot of our board, a lot of time and attention, and then for those directors it would have been more international travel, so that was really what was behind their decision to resign from the Ford board.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]George Davis says many outside directors are also getting heat from their own boards.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]George Davis:[/b] That they maintain extra focus on their own company during these turbulent times.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Davis is co-head of the global board practice group for Egon Zender International. He recruits corporate directors. Davis says now that the financial crisis has hit companies in every industry, it's not as easy to get top executives to sign up, especially for boards of struggling companies.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Davis[/b]: People are worried about liabilities. You know, joining a troubled company board midstream is a very difficult recruit.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Davis says boards typically meet six to seven times a year. [/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Davis:[/b] But if you're on a troubled company board, there's going to be multiple conference calls during the week, weekend calls. I mean you're really signing up for more than just what the average directorship would entail.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]That's left some empty seats at AIG, Sprint Nextel and other companies. And boardrooms may not be full again until the economy recovers.
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