后天就要考试了，请教大家几个问题~~

落卡落尘

1. 看到很多AA中都提到公司通过提高efficiency 从而降低costs 从而profit就上升    请问这个推理是对的吗？     提高效率可以降低成本吗，profit会增加吗？

2.如果在文章中引用名人说的话要不要加引号的。。。？（呃~这个问题我是小白，大家不要笑）
 假如说我要写 "For what purpose is all the toil and bustle of this world? What is the end of avarice and ambition, of the pursuit of wealth, of power, and preeminence?" thus wrote Adam Smith, the founding father of modern economics.
这句话对吗？ thus 要大写吗？ 还有founding father 首字母要大写吗？ 那个引号是要加的不？

还有想问几个专业术语。。。
请问 寻租空间应该怎么说   疏于管制  用英文怎么表达。。。

spensertracy

1. 不对啊，第一个环节，efficiency和cost。efficiency只是在单位时间能生产更多的产品，或者生产单位产品需要的material更少。cost是综合的成本，包括overhead，direct material，direct labor等等。第二个环节，降低cost和profit的上升就更没有必然联系了，profit需要考量cost和sales（revenue），如果卖的比原来更少了，还是无法提高profit啊。

2. Quotation这个问题我也没有研究过，我帮你找的资料)
Sometimes, you describe the quotation in your own words before using it. In this case, you should use a colon ( to indicate the beginning of the quotation. Then begin the quotation with a quotation mark ("). After you have completed the quotation, close it with a quotation mark ("). Here is an example:
Sir Winston Churchill made a witty remark on the attitude of a pessimist: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Sometimes the sentence in which the quotation is embedded does not describe the quotation, but merely introduces it. In this case, do away with the colon. Simply use the quotation marks. Here is an example:
Sir Winston Churchill once said "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

As far as possible, you should mention the author and the source of the quotation. For instance:
In Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).

3. 专业术语：
疏于管制：我不知道你是指管理上的疏忽Neglect of management，还是指宽松的管理Lax control
寻租：rent-seeking   这个寻租空间我还真不知道怎么说。。。也没有查到。你可以换种说法，比如positive aspect of rent-seeking

落卡落尘

1. 不对啊，第一个环节，efficiency和cost。efficiency只是在单位时间能生产更多的产品，或者生产单位产品需要的material更少。cost是综合的成本，包括overhead，direct material，direct labor等等。第二个环节，降低cost和profit的上升就更没有必然联系了，profit需要考量cost和sales（revenue），如果卖的比原来更少了，还是无法提高profit啊。

2. Quotation这个问题我也没有研究过，我帮你找的资料)
Sometimes, you describe the quotation in your own words before using it. In this case, you should use a colon ( to indicate the beginning of the quotation. Then begin the quotation with a quotation mark ("). After you have completed the quotation, close it with a quotation mark ("). Here is an example:
Sir Winston Churchill made a witty remark on the attitude of a pessimist: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Sometimes the sentence in which the quotation is embedded does not describe the quotation, but merely introduces it. In this case, do away with the colon. Simply use the quotation marks. Here is an example:
Sir Winston Churchill once said "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

As far as possible, you should mention the author and the source of the quotation. For instance:
In Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).

3. 专业术语：
疏于管制：我不知道你是指管理上的疏忽Neglect of management，还是指宽松的管理Lax control
寻租：rent-seeking   这个寻租空间我还真不知道怎么说。。。也没有查到。你可以换种说法，比如positive aspect of rent-seeking

-- by 会员 spensertracy (2010/2/23 2:23:48)

还有一个问题...请问 profit revenue cost 这些可数吗...？ 要不要加s 还是加不加都行......

MaverickIris

还有一个问题...请问 profit revenue cost 这些可数吗...？ 要不要加s 还是加不加都行......

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revenue和cost 是可数名词，最好用复数形式；profit 作为可数和不可数名词都行，不一定加s.

个人觉得最好跟题目里的用法一致吧~~

落卡落尘

还有一个问题...请问 profit revenue cost 这些可数吗...？ 要不要加s 还是加不加都行......

——————————————————————————————
revenue和cost 是可数名词，最好用复数形式；profit 作为可数和不可数名词都行，不一定加s.

个人觉得最好跟题目里的用法一致吧~~

-- by 会员 MaverickIris (2010/2/23 9:57:37)

thx~~~