company/corporation/firm.导航词义：公司

1. company:n. 公司.多指生产、销售产品或服务的公司。

He works for a bus company.

他在一家公共汽车公司工作。

This computer company was formed in 2004.

这家计算机公司成立于2004年。

2. corporation:n. （大）公司，企业集团.多指综合型大公司，也指在其他地区或国家拥有分公司的大集团。

West Coast Corps is a large international trade corporation.

西海岸公司是一家大型国际贸易公司。

It takes brains to run a multinational corporation.

管理跨国公司要有头脑。

3. firm:n. 公司，商行，事务所.尤指小型公司或商行。

He has set up an electronics firm of his own.

他自己开了一家电子公司。

Kim is with a firm of accountants in Birmingham.

金在伯明翰的一家会计师事务所工作。

全部

1·The firm is to shed 700 jobs.

这个公司将裁掉700个工作岗位。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·A local firm is to be preferred.

选一家当地的公司更好。《牛津词典》

3·She held firm to her principles.

她坚持自己的原则。《牛津词典》

4·He had a firm, square jaw.

他的下巴方正而坚定。《牛津词典》

5·The firm had shaved profit margins.

公司调低了利润率。《牛津词典》

6·I knew he worked for a security firm.

我知道他为一家保安公司工作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·The firm had accrued debts of over $6m.

该公司已积欠了600多万元的债务。《牛津词典》

8·He floated his firm on the stock market.

他让自己的公司上市了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·The accusations met with a firm rebuttal.

这些指控受到了坚决的驳斥。《牛津词典》

10·Parents must be firm with their children.

父母必须对子女严格。《牛津词典》

公司

1·A local firm is to be preferred.

选一家当地的公司更好。《牛津词典》

2·The firm is to shed 700 jobs.

这个公司将裁掉700个工作岗位。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·I knew he worked for a security firm.

我知道他为一家保安公司工作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The firm had accrued debts of over $6m.

该公司已积欠了600多万元的债务。《牛津词典》

5·He floated his firm on the stock market.

他让自己的公司上市了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

企业

1·Other companies could buy into the firm.

其他公司可以买进这家企业的一部分。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·If 106-year-old investor Irving Kahn, head of his own family firm, wants to keep coming to work every day, who's going to stop him?

如果现年106岁的投资者、家族企业的掌门人欧文·卡恩想每天都来上班，谁会阻止他？

3·Manufacturing site location is an important consideration in determining the optimal deployment of a firm's production resources, but one that is usually given only limited attention.

在决定企业生产资源的最佳配置时，生产地点的选址是一个重要的考虑因素，但通常未受到太多关注。

4·Therefore, alongside an explanation of the sources of firm differentials, there must also be an explanation of the mechanism of how the differentials persist over time.

因此，在对企业差异来源的解释之外，还应该有一个对这些差异如何随着时间而持续下去的机制的解释。

5·In other words, the argument is that being in an 'attractive' or 'unattractive' market is not the ultimate determinant of the firm performance in the long term.

换言之，这种论点就是处于一个“有吸引力的”或“没有吸引力的”市场并不是企业长期业绩的最终决定因素。

坚定

1·He had a firm, square jaw.

他的下巴方正而坚定。《牛津词典》

2·He was firm and steady unlike other men she knew.

他坚定、可靠，和她所认识的其他男人不同。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·He is a firm believer in total quality management.

他是个全员质量管理的坚定执行者。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·He held firm opinions which usually conflicted with mine.

他持有坚定的、通常跟我的相冲突的观点。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·He held firm opinions which usually conflicted with my own.

他持有坚定的观点，通常都与我的观点相左。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

牢固

1·This book will give your students a firm grasp of English grammar.

这本书将使学生牢固地掌握英语语法。《牛津词典》

2·I've been able to keep firm friendships with them.

我能和他们保持牢固的友谊。

3·They had soon formed a firm friendship.

他们很快结成牢固的友谊。

4·They give you a firm foundation upon which you can add more OO habits and build software that is easily maintained and extended.

它们将为您提供更牢固的基础，在此基础之上建立更多OO习惯并构建可轻松维护与扩展的软件。

5·By the time humans came around, evolution had forged a pretty firm foundation for a moral sense.

当人类出现时，进化过程已经在其身上建立了道德感的牢固基础。

坚决

1·The accusations met with a firm rebuttal.

这些指控受到了坚决的驳斥。《牛津词典》

2·We express strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to it.

我们对此表示强烈不满和坚决反对。

3·We express our firm opposition and strong condemnation to that.

我们对这种行径予以坚决反对和强烈谴责。

4·It was a bit of a damp squib, making no firm recommendations and proposing no new regulation or legislation.

不过它就像一个受潮了的爆竹，既没有给出坚决的建议，也没有提出新的规章或者法规。

5·Sierra Leone, for instance, which experienced horrors rather like Darfur's, has become a strong proponent of justice and a firm believer in the part it must play in ending conflicts.

例如塞拉利昂，这个国家有过类似达尔富尔的恐怖经历，已经变成一个正义的坚强支持者，而且坚决认为自己应该在终止各种冲突中献出自己的一份力量。

商行

1·This foreign firm has little [not much] means.

这家外国商行没有多大资力。《新英汉大辞典》

2·The firm has now ceased trading.

这家商行现已停业。《牛津词典》

3·The firm has more clients than it can take care of.

这家商行的主顾多得应接不暇。《新英汉大辞典》

4·You are obliged to assign to me your firm by the contract.

你必须按照合同把你的商行转让给我。

5·Some of the younger workers cooked up a plan for cheating the firm.

一些年轻人炮制了一个欺骗商行的计划。

坚固

1·Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry.

瓷砖可以固定在任何表面上，只要这些表面是平整、坚固、干燥的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·It referred to an actual firm kind of vault, like a dome, a ceiling, firmament and that's why in older translations it's called the firmament, because it is firm.

而只是一种坚固的拱顶，就像圆屋顶，天花板，这就是为什么古老的翻译把它翻为，因为它很牢固。

3·When drawing codelines, firm codelines branch upwards and soft codelines branch downwards. So looking at the picture above, we can conclude that

在绘制代码线时，坚固的代码线分支向上，而柔软的代码线分支向下。

4·It should be firm, well drained and of adequate dimensions.

路基应坚固，排水性好并有足够大小。

5·When the clay was in place, it had to slowly dry for a few days to get firm enough to keep its shape when I took it out of the mould.

当粘土放好之后，需要好些天去等它慢慢干掉，从而当我把它从模具里拿出来的时候能够足够的坚固，并保持着它的形状。

稳固

1·Everyone agreed with me, so I knew I was on firm ground.

每个人都同意我的意见，所以我知道自己立场稳固了。《牛津词典》

2·If you have to climb up, use a firm platform or a sturdy ladder.

如果你必须爬上去，就用一个稳固的平台或者一个结实的梯子。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·No building can stand without firm foundations, and neither can a marriage.

没有稳固的基础，建筑就不牢靠，婚姻也是如此。《牛津词典》

4·Developed by NASA for use in space capsules, memory foam comes in soft and firm options, and lasts 15 to 20 years.

被NASA研制用于太空胶囊的记忆泡沫，有着柔软和稳固的特性，并且能持续使用15至20年。

5·A firm base will provide you the resistance required to get a good lift in the pose.

一个稳固的底盘可以提供给你向上提升身体所必需的支撑。

厂商

1·Setting up a subsidiary is certainly much more challenging thansimply working with an outsourcing firm, but there are manydisadvantages with outsourcing

虽然建设附属公司比起简单地与外购厂商合作要更具有挑战性，但是外购有许多缺点

2·Volkswagen recently said it intended to sell more than 10m cars by 2018 and overtake Toyota and GM to become the world's largest auto firm in terms of sales.

大众近期表示他们希望在2018年时能卖出1千万辆车，从而取代丰田和通用，成为世界上最大的汽车销售厂商。

3·If the average cost when a single firm serves the entire market is lower than when two or more firms serve the market, a monopoly can be the result.

如果市场上，独家厂商生产的平均价格要低于存在2家或多家厂商时的平均价格，这时就有可能产生垄断。

4·But somewhat more discussion of the meaning of the firm is desirable.

但是，对厂商的意义稍加讨论还是可取的。

5·The challenge of such makes our software firm dare not have laches of a bit ground.

诸如此类的挑战使我们软件厂商不敢有丝毫地懈怠。

(1)law firm法律事务所

(1)consulting firm咨询公司

(1)accounting firm会计事务所，会计师事务所

(1)stand firm挺立；站稳立场

(1)firm foundation坚实的基础

(1)firm belief坚定的信念