For women, wear skirts or tailored pants with blouses, blazers, and accessories that mean business yet convey a more casual look than your standard business attire.(女士應穿裙子或裁剪得體的便裝褲、襯衫、外套和飾物，整體裝束既正式又比標準的職業裝隨意。)

I know many of you Cappy's and truth be known, I would want you on my team in battle. You people mean business.(我知道許多摩羯知道這完全屬實，我愿與你們共同戰斗，你們是認真之人。)

I'm not joking; I mean business.(我不是在開玩笑，我是認真的。)

It might stand outside the door, listening in, but it will know you mean business, because you're all about the business of making meaning.(它也許會在門外逗留，側耳聽聽里面的動靜。但是它會漸漸明白，你不是說說而已，因為你已經完全投入工作當中了。)

You better believe that I mean business .(你最好相信我是認真的。)

For Israelis it means "later" — only after they are incrementally and fully convinced that this time the Palestinians (and the rest of the Arab world) mean business and can handle business.(對于以色列人來說，則需要時間——使他們逐步并充分相信，巴勒斯坦人(以及阿拉伯世界的其他地區)懂得經商，并能夠處理業務。)

Don't be fooled, though, these turbines mean business.(不要被愚弄，不過，這些渦輪機平均業務。)

Claimed synergies have rarely materialised in past pharmaceutical deals, but this time Pfizer seems to mean business: it plans to shed nearly 20,000 jobs.(過去的藥品公司收購交易很少能真正實現所謂的協同增效，但這次輝瑞似乎要說到做到：公司計劃削減20000個崗位。)

Through it all, the concept of e-business -- once a brand name closely associated with IBM -- has come to simply mean business.(經過這個過程，電子商務的概念--一度是和IBM緊密相連的一個品牌--已經逐漸只意味著商務。)

Don't think I am joking; I mean business.(不要以為我是在開玩笑，我可是當真的。)