新职业英语2_Unit8

Reading A-Trans-4 A
6 他们的决定终于有了回报，公司创办一年后不 久，阿伯曼和克莱里克就从一些知名的互联网投资 商那里筹集了近两百万美元的资金。 7 WePay于3月30日开始为世界各地的个人和团 体提供服务。用户可以创建一个账户，收取从纸质 支票到信用卡等各种渠道的款项，然后通过借记卡 使用账户上的资金。两人已拥有数以千计的用户， 包括运动团体、学生组织乃至共同分担房租、水电 和煤气费的舍友。WePay对银行账户每笔进账收 取50美分的手续费，对信用卡账户每笔进账收取 3.5%的手续费，而出账则免手续费。
3 “随着时间的推移，要创立自己的公司变得越来 越难，”25岁的阿伯曼说到。“当你习惯了每个月 领薪水，你就开始适应某种固定的生活模式，从而 难以离开安稳的生活去创办自己的企业，迎接充满 变数的挑战。”
Reading A-Trans-3 A
4 克莱里克担心如果自己尝试开公司而又不成功的 话，那么在离开学校的这六个月时间里他既没有获得 相关的工作经验又没有取得切实的成就。 “事后看来 ，我觉得那种害怕是很愚蠢的,”24岁的克莱里克说 到。“你随时可以找到一份入门级的工作。” 5 因此几个月后，他们都改变了人生的方向：阿伯 曼离开了法学院，克莱里克则辞去了工作，他们一起 创办了管理集体资金的网上系统WePay。他们一边通 过打临工——阿伯曼讲授法学院入学考试的课程，克 莱里克则做财务咨询——艰难地度日，一边努力工作 使公司的业务起步发展。
time; to begin to deal with a problem, task, etc. in a particular way
e.g. It is not allowed to approach the forbidden area. e.g. As they approached the wood, a rabbit ran out of the
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Reading A
10 Adds Clerico, “If you wait until you work for a few years or go to graduate school, you are just piling on reasons not to take the risk, and you reduce the chances that you ever will have.”
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As an Employee Advantages
1, 6, 8, 9 •You can take pleasure in a lowrisk and consistent environment.
•You may enjoy a feeling of gooDdisfealdlovwansthaigpeast work.
Reading A-Trans-5 A
8 尽管走了点弯路，阿伯曼和克莱里克还是实现 了大学时的创业想法。不过，他们强烈建议如 果要创业，大学一毕业就应该开始。 9 “你已经有了学位，而且没有被特定的生活方式 或职业方向所束缚，”阿伯曼说。“如果你冒险失 败了，最糟糕的情况无非是你有了一次独一无二的 经历，而这种经历能在你申请进入研究院学习工 作面试时给人留下深刻的印象。”
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Reading A
8 Aberman and Clerico were able to get their college business idea back on track after a minor detour, but they strongly recommend starting right out of college. 9 “You have the degree under your belt, and you haven’t tied yourself into a particular lifestyle or career path,” Aberman says. “If you take a risk, and it fails, the worst that happens is that you have a unique experience that you can use as an impressive factor to get you into graduate school or to shine in a job interview.”
新职业英语
Unit 8
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Language Lab
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Self-employed Advantages
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•You have to maintain a positive relationship with the boss no matter what kind of person he is.
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Text Task 1 Task 2 Business Know-how
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Risk It When Young
1 Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico faced a tough decision as they approached the end of their senior year at Boston College. Start an innovative online-payment processing business, or start graduate school and a new job?
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4 Clerico was worried that if he tried starting a company and failed, he would be six months out of school with no relevant job experience or tangible success. “In hindsight, I think that was a dumb fear,” says Clerico, 24. “You can always go and get an entry-level job.” 5 So after just a few months, they changed course: Aberman left law school and Clerico quit his job, and they founded WePay, an online system for groups to manage their funds. They scraped by on income from odd jobs—Aberman taught LSAT courses while Clerico did financial consulting—as they worked to get their business off the ground.
Reading A-Trans-1 A
冒险趁年轻
1 在波士顿学院就读的里奇·阿伯曼和比尔·克 莱里克大四快毕业时遇到一个艰难的抉择：是开创 一项新型网上付款处理业务的事业，还是就读研究 生抑或是找一份工作？
Reading A-Trans-2 A
2 最终，他们选择了那条安稳的道路——阿伯曼去 了纽约大学法学院继续深造,克莱里克则去了一家投 资银行做高级职员——他们彼此承诺不久会重新回 来开创自己的事业。 但很快他们就发现自己陷入了 日复一日平凡庸碌的工作中，而他们的创业野心也 逐渐消逝。
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Reading A
6 The decision paid off, and a little over a year after founding the company, Aberman and Clerico have raised nearly $2 million for WePay from high-profile Internet investors. 7 WePay launched its service on March 30, allowing individuals and groups all over the world to establish an account and collect money in a variety of ways—from paper checks to credit cards—and then use a debit card to spend the money in the account. They already have several thousand users, ranging from sports teams to fraternities to groups of roommates managing rent and utilities. WePay collects transaction fees ranging from 50 cents for bank account payments to 3.5 percent of credit-card payments for each payment received; outgoing transactions are free.
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2 In the end, they decided to go the safe route— Aberman set out for law school at New York University and Clerico took a job as an investment banker—and they promised themselves that they’d soon get back to start their business. But all too quickly, they saw themselves getting sucked into the workaday world and their entrepreneurial ambitions slipping away. 3 “It only gets harder to start a company as time goes on,” says Aberman, 25. “As you get used to a salary, you start getting comfortable with a certain lifestyle, which makes it hard to leave for the uncertainty of being an entrepreneur.”
Reading A-Trans-6 A
10 克莱里克补充道：“如果等工作几年 后或是已经读了研究生之后再创业，你会找 越来越多的理由不去冒险，从而减少了可以 得到的机会。”
Reading A
approach v. to come near to someone or something in distance or
2, 4, 10, 12, 14 •You can enjoy more comfortable working conditions.
•You can choose who to work with.Disadvantages
7, 11 •You have concerns about various operational costs