I'm not joking; I mean business.

我不是在开玩笑，我是认真的。

I mean business, so you must be careful.

我是认真的，所以你得小心。

Don't think I am joking; I mean business.

不要以为我是在开玩笑，我可是当真的。

You better believe that I mean business .

你最好相信我是认真的。

I'm not joking with you. I mean business...

我不是在跟你开玩笑，我是认真的。

Then there are search engines that mean business.

接下来介绍一些和商业相关的搜索引擎。

Did you mean business about what we talked yesterday?

我们昨天谈的事你是当真的吗?。

Don't be fooled, though, these turbines mean business.

不要被愚弄，不过，这些涡轮机平均业务。

They mean business. Otherwise, they wouldn't have come here.

他们来办事。要不然他们不会来的。

They have now well and truly come to the realisation that we mean business.

他们现在彻底认识到，我们是认真的。

That doesn't mean business development as a skill requirement has gone away.

这并不是说企业不再需要业务开发这项技能。

You don't have to look like a man but you do have to look like you mean business.

“你不必看起来像某个人，但你必须看起来是认真的”。

Suddenly you mean business, and you want your time to count, which is why it will!

突然你考虑商业的问题，开始计算你时间的价值，怎么去安排和合理利用它。

I think I made a hit with the boss. My idea knocked him dead. Now he knows I mean business.

我想，我这次和老板配合得很成功。他中意我的点子，而且知道我是认真的。

David: Energy saving and environmentally products are not only a commitment, they also mean business.

马大卫：生产节能环保产品不仅仅是责任问题，同时也是适应市场的需要。

I know many of you Cappy's and truth be known, I would want you on my team in battle. You people mean business.

我知道许多摩羯知道这完全属实，我愿与你们共同战斗，你们是认真之人。

Through it all, the concept of e-business -- once a brand name closely associated with IBM -- has come to simply mean business.

经过这个过程， 电子商务的概念 -- 一度是和 IBM 紧密相连的一个品牌 -- 已经逐渐只意味着 商务。

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.

它也许会在门外逗留，侧耳听听里面的动静。但是它会渐渐明白，你不是说说而已，因为你已经完全投入工作当中了。

Provided you demonstrate, by your behaviour, by your attitude, and by the way you spend your time, that you mean business, others will get the message.

通过你的行为和你的态度去摆明你的观点，通过你当真花费的时间，别人会明白你要表达的信息。

Our country soon carries out whether the new accounting standards system does mean business accounting the system soon completes the historical mission?

我国即将履行的新会计准则体系是否意味着企业会计制度即将完成使命？

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.

过去的药品公司收购交易很少能真正实现所谓的协同增效，但这次辉瑞似乎要说到做到：公司计划削减20000个岗位。

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.

女士应穿裙子或裁剪得体的便装裤、衬衫、外套和饰物，整体装束既正式又比标准的职业装随意。

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.

对于以色列人来说，则需要时间——使他们逐步并充分相信，巴勒斯坦人(以及阿拉伯世界的其他地区)懂得经商，并能够处理业务。

The negative side of Henry Ford's statement, however, can be seen when the word business is taken to mean big business.

然而，当“商业”一词被理解为“大企业”时，我们就能理解亨利·福特这句话的负面含义。