#19.【商業英文聽力】Amazon 老闆教你成功創業。

更新時段：每星期一、三、五、六上午 ---------------------------------- 第一段單字 1. entrepreneur: 創業家 2. obsessed, customer-obsessed: -obsessed:著迷、沈迷。 I am obsessed with English. 我沉迷於英語。 I am obsessed with the girl next door. I have a telescope, a camera, a recorder, and night vision goggles. 我沉迷於隔壁的女孩。我有望遠鏡、照相機、攝影機、夜視鏡。 3. delight, absolutely delight -delight:取悅 absolutely: 完全地 ---------------------------------- 「文章」 If you *wanna be an entrepreneur, the most important thing is to be customer-obsessed, so don’t satisfy your customers. Figure out how to absolutely delightthem. That is the number one thing, whoever your customers are. ---------------------------------- 第­二段單字 1. arena: 競技場 2. mercenary: 1.傭兵2.圖利的人。 3. missionary: 傳教士。mercenary, missionary 的比較，是創業領域人很喜歡講的內容。Mercenary為了錢，傳教士為了理想。 4. paradoxically: 自相矛盾的 5. genuine: 真誠 ---------------------------------- Passion. You have got to have some passionfor the arenathat you’re going to develop and work in, because otherwise you’re gonna be competing against people who do have a passion (錯誤) for that, and they’re going to build better products and services. You can’t be a mercenary. You have to be a missionary. Missionaries build better products and services, they always win, the mercenaries are just trying to make money and paradoxicallythe missionaries always end up making more money, to pick something that you actually have a genuinepassion for. ---------------------------------- 第­三段單字 1. willing: 願意：be willing to -Are you willing to help me? 2. come up: 想出 come up with an idea 3. might not work -This plan will not work. ---------------------------------- You have to take risk. You have to be willing totake risk. If you aren’t gonna take risk, If you come upwith a business idea, there’s no risk there, you’re probably, you know, it’s probably already being done. Those ideas are already being done. They’re being done well by many, many people. So you gotta have something that might not work. And so you have to accept that your business is going to be, in many ways, an experiment, and it might fail. And that’s okay. That’s what risk is. ---------------------------------- 第­四段單字 1. failure: 失敗 2. be moving the needle: 做出明顯改變。 -needle: 1.針線、2指針，開車儀表板的指針，也叫needle，所以move the needle就是做出明顯改變。 3. scale: 規模 4. billion dollar scale failures: 億萬規模失敗 5. swinging: 揮打，揮打棍子。 -swinging hard enough: 棒球用語。 ---------------------------------- The good news is, in Amazon we still take risks all the time and we encourage it, and we talk about failure. We should be failing. Our failures have to grow with the company. We need big failures. If were gonna be moving the needle, we need to have, billion dollar scale failures. And if we’re not, we’re not swinging, we’re not swinging hard enough. ---------------------------------- 網站：https://www.english-great-easy.com YouTube：https://goo.gl/L7qFRQ 粉專「英文不難」：https://goo.gl/n8NmBr IG「英文不難」：https://www.instagram.com/english.great.easy/