商务英语听力练习：视频电话预约与产品推介对话解析

名词任命; 约会; 职务; 职位

1. 任命；委派；指派
The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.

e.g. His appointment to the Cabinet would please the right-wing.
他被任命为内阁成员会让右翼党派很高兴。
e.g. ...his appointment as foreign minister in 1985.
在1985年他被委任为外交部长

2. 职位；职务
An appointment is a job or position of responsibility.

e.g. Mr Fay is to take up an appointment as a researcher with the Royal Society.
费伊先生将担任皇家学会研究员的职务。

3. 约会；约定
If you have an appointment with someone, you have arranged to see them at a particular time, usually in connection with their work or for a serious purpose.

e.g. She has an appointment with her accountant...
她和她的会计约好了见面。
e.g. I made an appointment to see a specialist.
我约好去见一位专家。

4. 经过预约
If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.

e.g. Viewing is by appointment only.
参观须事先预约。

名词电池; 生细胞; 小牢房; 诗墓穴

不及物动词住在牢房或小室中

及物动词囚禁

1. 细胞
A cell is the smallest part of an animal or plant that is able to function independently. Every animal or plant is made up of millions of cells.

e.g. Those cells divide and give many other different types of cells.
那些细胞分裂，产生出许多不同种类的细胞。
e.g. ...blood cells...
血细胞

2. 单人牢房；(修道院的)单人小室
A cell is a small room in which a prisoner is locked. A cell is also a small room in which a monk or nun lives.

3. (大型组织中的)基层组织
You can refer to a small group of people within a larger organization as a cell .

e.g. ...Communist Party cells.
共产党的基层组织

名词分配，分布; [法]（无遗嘱死亡者的）财产分配; [无线]频率分布; [电]配电

1. 分发;分派;分送
The distribution of things involves giving or delivering them to a number of people or places.

e.g. ...the council which controls the distribution of foreign aid...
掌管外援物资派发的委员会
e.g. He admitted there had been distribution problems.
他承认曾出现过配给问题。

2. 分配;分布
The distribution of something is how much of it there is in each place or at each time, or how much of it each person has.

e.g. ...a more equitable distribution of wealth.
更公平合理的财富分配
e.g. One of the side effects may be to change the geographical distribution of parasitic diseases such as malaria.
其中的一个意外后果可能是改变诸如疟疾之类的寄生虫引发的疾病的地理分布。

3. (电影在各院线的)发行，上映
Film distribution involves deciding which cinemas a particular film is shown in.

e.g. ...a film-distribution company.
电影发行公司