When doing business with Native Speakers of English you will hear a lot of metaphors and idiomatic expressions used. They can relate to all sorts of areas like war, fire, health.

　　当和母语为英语的人做生意时，你会听到他们使用很多隐喻和惯用用语。它们可以涉及到战争、火灾、健康等各种领域。

　　One of the biggest areas is sports. If you want to use these Business English phrases like a native speaker, it would be useful to have an understanding of what they are and what they mean.

　　体育是这些隐喻和惯用语涉及最大的领域之一。如果你想像本地人一样使用商务英语短语，了解有哪些短语和它们的意思是非常有用的。

　　By the way, using phrases will help you to speak English fluently.

　　顺便说一下，这些短语可以使你的英语更加流利。

　　In this blog post, I’d like to explore the strong relationship that exists between sports and business. If you look at the qualities that sports and business share, you’ll begin to see why Business English has so many sporting metaphors.

　　在这篇博文中，我想探讨体育与商业之间的紧密关系。如果你看看体育和商业之间的共同点，你就会明白为什么商业英语有这么多的体育隐喻。

　　Kick off

　　开始

　　to start

　　开始

　　Good Morning everyone. Shall we kick off the meeting then? (Football)

　　大家早上好。那么我们开始开会好吗?(足球)

　　ON TARGET (english phrase)

　　瞄准目标

　　making good progress and likely to achieve what has been planned

　　取得很好的进展并有可能实现计划中的目标

　　It looks like we are pretty much on target with this project. (Archery)

　　看来我们在这个项目上的目标是有可能实现的。(射箭)

　　Up to scratch

　　达到标准

　　to be of a good standard

　　达到很棒的标准

　　I know we have a great team whose work is really up to scratch. (Track and Field)

　　我知道我们有一个很棒的团队，他们的工作真的很出色。(田径)

　　Know the ropes

　　知晓内情

　　to be able to do something well

　　能够做好某事

　　Our new Sales Director has a lot of experience and really knows all the ropes. (Sailing)

　　我们的新销售主任经验丰富，而且懂得一切诀窍。(帆船)

　　Ballpark figure

　　大概的数字

　　a rough estimate

　　粗略的估计

　　Can you give me a ballpark figure on the total sales costs? (Baseball)

　　你能给我一个大概的总销售成本数吗?(棒球)