The demand was withdrawn at the meeting.

　　这个要求在会议上被撤消了。

　　I'm running out of money，I'll withdraw some from my bank account.

　　我的钱快花完了，我要从我的银行帐户上取点钱。

　　10.Who were prepared to say in private.他们私下

　　1）be prepared to do sth.：准备做……；愿意做……，又如：They're prepared to have a try though the chances of success are very small.尽管成功的可能不大，他们准备试一试。

　　2）in private：私下，与之相对应的是in public（公开）。 The two drivers reached an agreement in private.这两个司机私下里达成了协议。

　　11.“Look，we're in a wheeling-dealing business.”——（“Look，in the business world，we're faced with a lot of complicated deals，so we have to use whatever means to gain profits.”/“In the business world，the competition is very fierce.”）看，我们所干的事竞争异常激烈，往往需要不择手段。

　　1）wheel and deal：（usually used in the progressive tenses wheeling and dealing） to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics，often in a dishonest way /wheeling-dealing：（口语）在政治活动或生意中为了打垮对手而必须不择手段的。

　　2）business 此处既可作“生意”解，也可作“事业”解。Go into business下海，经商；business hours营业时间；come down to business言归正传，着手做，it's none of your business不关你的事

　　12.Every year we're selling more than a ￡ 1，000 million worth of cars abroad.If we spend a few million greasing the palms of some of the buyers，who's hurt？ ——（It is worthwhile to bribe some of our buyers with a few million so as to secure contracts worth ￡ 1，000 million.）每年我们在海外要卖出价值10亿英镑的汽车，要是我们花上几百万贿赂买方，对我们的利益毫无损害。我们不这么做。别人也会干的。

　　1）……worth of sth.：价值……的……，又如：￥2，000 worth of chemical fertilizer价值2，000元人民币的化肥 $5，000 worth of books价值5，000美元的书 spend （an amount of money） doing sth.：花……钱用来做……，又如：They spent ￥50，000 fixing their apartment.他们花了5万元人民币修理单元住房。

　　2）grease sb.'s palm：（old-fashioned，informal） to give sb.money in a secret or dishonest way in order to persuade them to do sth.for your benefit；to pay bribes ；give sb.money in order to persuade them to do something dishonest for one向某人行贿。 Cf.oil the wheels：（informal） to make things go more smoothly，esp.in business，sometimes by offering people illegal gifts or money

　　3）Who's hurt？：We won't be hurt in the least.对我们来说，这只不过是小菜一碟。这是个修辞性疑问句，表示强调所说的话。 If we didn't do it……would do it注意此句包含一个虚拟条件句。

　　14.It is difficult to resist the impression that bribery and other questionable payments are on the increase.Indeed，they seem to have become a fact of commercial life.—（It is not difficult to see that bribery and other dishonest payments are becoming more and more widespread.In fact，bribery has become something we have to face and accept in business activities.）行贿和其他