2020商务英语阅读初级理解难点词汇分析：O

　　obscene profit 不义之财

　　例: During times of fuel shortages consumer groups have charged that oil companies have earned ^obscene profits".在石油短缺时期，消费者组织曾指责石油公司赚取“不义 之财”。

　　occupancy (土地、房屋的)占有，居住

　　例:In order to be successful, a hotel must try to maximize room occupancy ・要想办好旅 馆，必须努力最大限度地提高入住率。

　　Octopus smart card “八达通”卡(一种在香港通用的储值卡)

　　odds for success成功机会，成功可能性

　　例：Some estimates on odds for success favour a franchise over a privately owned small business by 20 to 1.根据估算，就成功机会而言，特许店和私营小企业的比率是 20： 1

　　offer报盘

　　例：This offer is subject to market fluctuation.本报价按市价变动而变动。

　　office administrator行政秘书，亦作office assistanto如今传统的secretary已渐渐被 office administrator取代。传统的秘书主要处理包括倒水、倒咖啡、倒茶、接电话等 日常事务，而今天的秘书工作更专业化，她(他)们必须受过专门的教育，有计算 机知识、会外语，还要善于交际。

　　例： As an office administrator, her duties are sending sales invoices, paying purchase invoices and precessing staff expenses.作为行政秘书，她的职责是邮寄销售发票、报销 购物发票及处理员工开支。

　　office block办公大楼

　　例1: The new office block is still vacant.新的办公大楼仍然闲置着。

　　例 2: The company is selling land where office blocks can be built.该公司正在出售可盖 办公大楼的用地。

　　office complex (办公楼周边环境如公园般幽雅的)商业配套小区

　　otfice equipment 办公设备

　　例：Rank Xerox manufactures office equipment.美国兰克•施乐公司生产办公设备。

　　office hours 办公时间，亦作 business liours

　　例 1: Please call at any time durir^ office hours .办公时间可随时来电话。

　　例2: What d

　　ollice supplies 办公用品

　　例：丁 hey deal in of/ice supplier .他们经营办公用品。

　　official corporate anguage 正式公司用语

　　例： Ericsson is one of a growing number of European companies that use English as their official corfximte language.越来越多的欧洲公司将英语作为正式公司用语，瑞典•爱 主信电讯公司便是其中之一，

　　offset抵消，注销，补偿

　　例：The company offsets some of its poor trading results by selling assets.该公司 靠出售 资产注销一部分交易亏损。

　　off-the-shelf现成的，非专门设计的(或定制的)

　　例： Many companies launch their Internet offering with a few web pages, normally with off-the-shelf software .很多公司通常利用市场上现有饨软件在网页上推出他们的网上 服务。

　　on approval (货物)供试用，包退包换

　　例： On approval goods must be returned within 14 days if they are not satisfactory. 如 杲不满意，试用货物须在14天内退回。

　　one-sided persuasive ad单方面劝说性广告

　　例：(Onesided persuasive ads are typical in that only favorable attributes are mentioned about the product.单方面劝说性广告突出表现在只强调好的产品特征。

　　one stop shopping —站购物

　　例：Om Stop Shopping for All Your Party Needs.聚会所需种种，本店一站购成。(广 告)

　　on-hold business候话服务业

　　on-hold caller因线路忙而被告知等候的来电者

　　例： A recent study in the USA found that 60 per cent of on-hold callers hang up, and over 30 per cent do not try to call again.最近美国一项研究发现，因线路忙而被吿知等 候的来电者有60%索性挂断电话，其中30%多的人就此放弃了再挂的念头。

　　on-hold marketing 利用候话时间营销

　　例： This fast growing part of the on-hold business is referred to as rn-hold marketing: the combination of music and brief promotional messages.候话服务业中迅猛发展的这部 分被称为利用候话时间营销，即将音乐和产品宣传短信息巧妙地结合在一起。

　　on-hold music 等候音，候话时播放的音乐，亦作hold music

　　例：It's important to choose the right cm-hold music .选择合适的等候音非常重要"o

　　on-line newsgroup网上新闻讨论组(类似于公告极的时事讨论网，由用户自发组 成，其成员借助新闻阅读器登录到各新闻服务网上去订阅自己兴趣的专题讨论文 章，读后可投稿就这些文章所讨论的主题发表自己的意见)

　　例： Anyone contributing to an m-line newsgroup with informed, specialist opinion may well become the tai^et of a headhunter .任何一个投稿网上新闻讨论组的人，只要他的 见解信息含量高、专业到位，就可能成为措头公司的目标。

　　online offering 网上服务

　　例：Once the demand for their online offerings increases, companies must beef up their technolc^y capabilities through software and hardware developments.—旦顾客增加对网 上服务的需求，这些公司就必须通过软件和硬件开发来增强它们的技术能力。

　　online service网上服务公司

　　例：America Online is one the largest commercial online services.美国在线是故大的商 业网上服务公司之一。

　　on-line trading网上交易，在线交易

　　例： Although some potential investors may find on-line trading excitir^, they should be aware that direct trading is perhaps the least secure way of approaching the stock market, 虽然有些海在的投资者觉縛网上交易充满剌激，他们应该认识到这种直接交易也许是 进入股市最欠稳妥的方式。

　　on-pack promotion 超值包装促销法

　　例： A promotion me I hod that involves the packaging cf a product, such as including a free sample or coupons is called

　　on-the-job-training 在职培训，非正式培训

　　open-collar worker开领工人.远距离员工，指在家里通过使用与工作单位连接的计 算机终端远距离工作的人或其他在家里工作的人，这类人可以随意敞开领子甚至不 穿衣服◎仿blue-collar worker (蓝领工人)和white-collar worker (白领工人)而 来。

　　例：We call today' s home-based people * open-collar -workers .' 我们把今天在家工作的 人叫做“开领工人丄

　　Open-Ended Investment Channel 自由投资渠道，简称 OEIC

　　例： Open-Ended Imjestrtietit Channels (OEJCS) arc flexible and easy to trade, having a price for bonh selling and buying.自由投诺渠道买卖实行同一价格，方便灵活， 容易交易G

　　open market operation公开市场运作，公并市场业务(指中央银行买卖政府债券， 以影响国家货币供给的增长，是实施货币政策的主要手段)

　　例： The (3nlral Bank raised the loan interest rate of financial institutions without setting directly the kxin rate of commercial banks to enterprises as slep towards relaxation of interest rale conirol, to pave the way to adopt ope?i market operation with treasury bonds as 中央银行提高了金融机构的贷款利奉，而没有直接规定商业银行对企业 的贷款利率。这是放松利率管理的第一步，也意味着向以国库券为工具的公开市场运 作方向迈进了一步。

　　open plan office (室与室之间没有隔板的)开放:式办公室

　　例： The officc building rs of approximately 410 sq- m with excellent naturcil light.该写字楼面积约 410 平方米.典型糸方形结构，采光优越，兼有开放式及单间办公室两种。

　　operating costs 经营成本

　　例： The operating costs are the costs for the day-io-day running of a company or business. 经营成本指经营公司或企业的日常成本.

　　operatjng margin 经 营利润

　　例： Operating margins also increased, as a result of the restructuring pre^rannme that was completed at the end of last year.去年底完成的结构重组计划使经营利润也同时增 加。

　　operating process 经营环节，经营过程

　　例： Operating processes define how a company produces, sells, distributes and supports its products and services .经营环节指公司生产、销售、运送及扶持产品和服务的过 程。

　　operation 1 经营〉业务

　　例： Fujitsu owns nearly 500 compuli皿 and electronics companies and has operations in more than 100 countries.日本富士通拥有近500家计算机以及电子公司，经营业务遍 布100多个国家。

　　operation 2经营企业

　　例： The company also plans to dispose of its loss-making operatims. 该公 司还计划出售 其亏损经营企业。

　　operational 启动, 运行

　　例：The system should be fully opemticmal within the next ten weeks.咳系统有望在十 同内全面启动。

　　operative操作人员

　　例：Call centre operatives normally work a lol more hours than office workers-电话销售 中心的操作人员上班时间通常比行政人员长得多。

　　operator运营商，运营公司

　　例 1: The company bought a package holiday from a major tour operator,这家公司付费 给一家大型旅行社安排全套旅游服务。

　　例2: This is an operator offering corporate hospitality services.这是一家提供企业社交 服务的专业公司°

　　opinion survey 民意调查

　　opportunity cost机会成本(要选择，必然要放弃一些东西以实现选择了的计划。这 些被放弃的东西或机会就是机会成本)

　　例：Thecost is I lie cotst of not donig something.机会成本即放弃做某事的 成本C

　　option 选择

　　例： SlaGsiics show ih:t( ih

　　order form 订单

　　例： Ar. order fom is a paper which you fill in when you want to buy something from a company.打算购买某公司产品时.可填写订单.

　　organic food绿色食品，冇机食品

　　彳列： Organic Itxxi, j^rown without the use of chemi cats, are increasingly popular in Amerim today.如今，垛色食品因其生长过程中未使用化学成分而在美国日渐流行。

　　organigram 机构分支图.树型图(表示-•个机构之间的工作分布和隶属关系)

　　organisation 企业，组织，机构

　　例： The new study finds that in fact there is little opportunity for individual career development in many Large or^afusations .这项新研究发现，在许多大企业，个人职业发展 机会事实上很少很少.

　　organisation chart 组织结构图

　　例： The company's organisation chart helped their new employees understand who retried to whom.该公司的组织结构图有助干新雇员了解上下级关系。

　　organisational culture组织机构文化，公司文化.企业文化(泛指结构内集体员工所 形成和共亨的价值观、理念、传统等)亦作company culture, corporate culture

　　例：Stress is regarded by many as part of the organisational culture of our institutions: it comes with ihc job、许多人认为压力是当今企业文化的一部分，它伴随工作而来。

　　original equipment manufacturer原设备制造商，贴牌公司，贴牌生产，简称OEM 例 1: rfhese drives are then put through an extensive quality process to IS0900L standards and this ensures they meet n ccrtii'ication standard as high as the original equipment man- ufaciurer.之后这些驱动器经过全面的9001质量标准认证，确保它们具备和原设备 制造商颱牌公司一样高的认证标准Q

　　例 2: In 1983, Sun Microsystems, Inc. , signed a mu tt imi 11 ion-do liar original equipment manu facturer (OEM) agreement with Cdmputeivision Corporation, a designer of computer-aided design and engineering programs. This was ihc first of many large OEMs for which Sun built computers that sold the workstations under their own labels. 1983 年. 太 阳微系统公司与专营电脑辅助设计和工程项目设计的电子视像公司签订了高达数千万 美元的贴牌生产协议°该公司是委托太阳微系统公司生产电脑的众多大型电脑工作站 贴牌公司的头一家。

　　organizer (电子)商务通，电子记事本，处理日常事务的公文柜

　　例： The intrtxlucTion Iasi year of pocket-size or^amzers and half a dozen handhelds that do everythir^ from Windows to the Web, instanily made using a laptop for the odd me申 sa^e and t<)-do list seem like overkill.去年面世的袖珍“商务通”和六七种之多的掌上 电脑，可从事从视窗到网络的任何操作。它们一出现，用便携式电脑写便呉或备忘录 就变得像高射炮打蚊子了。

　　organizer bag处理日常事务的公文包，分层存放文件的手提包

　　outfitter (岀售男式服装的)男装店，体育(或旅行、野营等)用品商店 例：In a men's outfitters the lasks of a store assistant could include measuring a customer fora^it.在男装店，营业员的任务可能包括为顾客测量尺寸选择西装°

　　outflow资金流岀，资金流岀是：

　　例：The words labour costs* refer to outfits. 劳动力成本”这个词与资金流出有 关..

　　outlet专卖店・分销店

　　例 I: We have a number of outlets throughoui the country-我们在全国各地都有产品专 卖店。

　　例 2: Petrol stations, wanting to expand the range cf what they have quickly become major nutlets for sandwiches.希望扩大销修范围的加油站，很快成为三明治的分销店<

　　ouVot-the-court settlement 庭外解决

　　例：The party with a weaker case might do well to agree to an out-of^the-court settlement to slop the case from going on inr too long.理亏的一方最好是同意庭外调解，以防止官 司旷日持久地打下去