5 Chinese Words from Last Week's News (9 February 2015 to 13 February 2015)

五个中文生词从上个星期的新闻

5 Chinese terms to increase one's finance, technology, and telecommunications vocabulary gathered from press releases issued between 9 to 13 February 2015 by CHT, Huawei, ZTE, and the National Communications Commission..

English	Chinese
	汉字	Pinyin
Bankruptcy / to go bankrupt	破产	Pòchǎn
Operating Costs	營業成本 (Traditional) 营业成本 (Simplified)	Yíngyè chéngběn
Executive Director	常务 理事	Chángwù lǐshì
Interactive Voice Response	交互式語音 應答	Jiāohù shì yǔyīn yìngdá
Cash Flow	流量变现	Liúliàng biànxiàn

Hanzi in the Main Terminology

破 pò	产 chǎn
营 Yíng	业 yè	成 chéng	本 běn
常 Cháng	务 wù	理 lǐ	事 shì	应 yīng
交 Jiāo	互 hù	式 shì	语 yǔ	音 yīn
答 Dá	流 liú	量 liàng	变 biàn	现 xiàn

Notes

• 破产 is both a verb and a noun. For example:
• 北电宣告破產了。
  Nortel declared bankruptcy.
• 北电彻底破产了。
  Nortel was completely bankrupt.
• 破产, also, can mean poor/broke as in 破产农民(Pòchǎn nóngmín) which translates to impoverished peasants / broke farmers.
• The characters 成本 in 营业成本 mean cost. Some other types of costs are

English	Chinese
	汉字	Pinyin
Fixed Costs	固定成本	Gùdìng chéngběn
Low Cost	低成本	Dī chéngběn
Marginal Costs	边际成本	Biānjì chéngběn
Production Costs	生产成本	Shēngchǎn chéngběn
Variable Costs	可变成本	Kěbiàn chéngběn

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Sources

CHT	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk16n2
Huawei	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk16n3
	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk16n5
National Communications Commission	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk16n4
ZTE	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk16n1

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