Lifestyle firms可以直译为“生活型企业”。
听起来很奇怪,但其实它指的就是注重维持业务但一般不长大、扩张的企业。它们存在的目的主要是为了维持有品质的生活。
Generally speaking, lifestyle law firms try to maintain the importance of quality of life. They strive to recognize that lawyers have a life outside of their job, and do what they can to help maintain work-life-balance.
与之相关的有生活型业务lifestyle businesses. A lifestyle business is a business set up and run by its founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle. Some types of enterprise are more accessible than others to the would-be lifestyle business person.
生活型业务是由创始人设立和运营的、主要是为了维持特定的收入水平或提供一个享受特定生活方式的基础的业务。某些类型的企业比其他企业更容易获得生活型的商业人士。需要广泛资本的人难以在生活型的基础上发起和维持; 诸如小创意产业的其他企业对于单身从业者或小团体如夫妻团队更为实际。在传统的商业术语中,生活型业务通常具有有限的可扩展性和增长潜力,因为这种增长会破坏其所有者设置的生活方式。
Middle-Market Firms则按企业收入划分,指中间市场企业。
The middle market is the segment of American businesses with annual revenues roughly in the range of $10 million to $1 billion, depending on the industry they operate in.
具体而言,它是指一个行业中,年收入处于中等水平(处于行业巨头和小企业之间)的企业。
中间市场公司的相对收入因行业而异(一些分析师称这类企业的收入在1000万美元至5亿美元之间,但这必须要考虑到企业本质,且需要考虑异常行业或企业),拥有员工数量也可能处于中等水平(从100名员工到2000名员工不等)。就法律,会计或经纪等专业领域而言,中间市场公司有时被称为第二层公司,因为它们仅位于该行业的顶层之下。
以下为相关双语示例,供参考:
Middle-market firms, on the other hand, may have to scale back their operations or risk losing business to lower-cost competitors.
而在另一方面,中间市场公司,可能必须得面对要么缩小他们交易的规模要么就要冒着将生意丢给低成本竞争者的风险。
