每日商务英语 第40期:挖掘销售潜力

 　　to be shaking the trees挖掘销售潜力

　　英文释义

　　To be looking for extra sales that are not easy to find, usually because there have been very few sales recently (NOTE: this is a reference¹ to shaking fruit trees to make the fruit fall)

　　例句

　　Business has been very slow recently so we are shaking the trees by revisiting old customers who we haven't see for a long time and trying to sell our products to them.

　　公司近期发展缓慢，因此我们再度拜访久未见面的老客户，向他们推销产品，以挖掘销售潜力。

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n.提到，说到，暗示，查看，查阅

参考例句：

• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
• I like to have my reference books within my reach.我喜欢把参考书放到伸手可取的地方。