商务英语中熟悉的陌生人:”Leverage”

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商务英语中熟悉的陌生人:”Leverage”

Leverage: [‘liːvərɪdʒ]  商务短语搭配:Leverage sth up, Leverage sth across sth

常用语义1:To use borrowed money to buy an investment or to add to the amount invested, in order to try to increase possible profits from the investment. (举债经营、杠杆式投机)

常用语义2:Infulence that you can use to make people do what you want. (影响力)

商务语义1:To get as much advantage or profit as possible from sth that you have. (利用…以获得好处、利用…获利)

用 例:Many companies have tried, with mixed success, to leverage this underused asset by centralising knowledge management functions or by investing heavily in knowledge management technology. { 例句出处:《剑桥BEC高级真题集第三辑:P39》}

商务语义2:To attract money or other advantages. (吸引资金或其他有利条件)

用 例:The design award we won leveraged large loans from several sources.

商务语义3:To spread or use resources, ideas etc again in several different ways or parts of a company, system, etc. (通过扩充资金、人脉以寻求影响力的提升或系统性改善)

用 例:This is exactly what we predicted a Trump presidency would do.  Use economics instead of rockets and military to leverage a better position for America in the globe.

知识扩展及补充“Leverage”核心要义:

The ability to influence a system, or an environment, in a way that multiplies the outcome of one’s efforts without a corresponding increase in the consumption of resources. In other words, leverage is the advantageous condition of having a relatively small amount of cost yield a relatively high level of returns.

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