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Vietnamese translation: lĩnh vực/khu vực bán lẻ


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English term or phrase:Main Street
Vietnamese translation:lĩnh vực/khu vực bán lẻ
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14:38 May 24, 2009
English to Vietnamese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / securitization
English term or phrase: Main Street
The impact of an economy-wide bank contraction can be devastating for Main Street
aqua daquack
Vietnam
Local time: 18:40
lĩnh vực/khu vực bán lẻ
Explanation:
Trong trường hợp này "Main Street" chỉ các doanh nghiệp, cửa hàng bán lẻ, chứ không phải các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ.
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vietnguyenngo
Local time: 18:40
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Summary of answers provided
5người kinh doanh, hay nhà doanh nghiệp
Vie007
5lĩnh vực/khu vực bán lẻ
vietnguyenngo
5(những) kinh doanh vừa và nhỏ
Shane Wall
5 -1phố chính
Nguyen Dieu


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main street
phố chính


Explanation:
"Main Street" (Phố Chính) là cách gọi của người Mỹ chỉ những nhà đầu tư và kinh doanh vừa và nhỏ. Đôi khi người Mỹ dùng từ "Phố Wall" - chỉ những nhà đầu tư lớn hoặc các tập đoàn tài chính như một khái niệm đối nghịch với từ "Main Street"


    Reference: http://tuanvietnam.net/news/InTin.aspx?alias=thegioitruyenth...
Nguyen Dieu
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disagree  Shane Wall: does "phố chính" mean "all the small and medium-sized businesses within the national economy"? THAT is usually the intended meaning of the use in U.S. POLITICAL English.
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main street
(những) kinh doanh vừa và nhỏ


Explanation:
"main street" in U.S. English is almost analogous with the term "middle America", but it has a business "sense" rather than a personal one.

The term stems from the historical fact that in the U.S., like in the rural countryside of southern Vietnam today, lots of small and medium-sized shops and businesses stretch along either side of the big road that goes through the town. The section of this road within the town limits will be called "Main Street" ... and is, in tens of thousands of small American towns.

The English reference is to the businesses that exist along these uncountable streets and is an aphorism for EVERYTHING BUT "Wall Street" ... which is often called "the Big End of Town".

Shane Wall
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main street
lĩnh vực/khu vực bán lẻ


Explanation:
Trong trường hợp này "Main Street" chỉ các doanh nghiệp, cửa hàng bán lẻ, chứ không phải các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ.

Example sentence(s):
  • Main Street is the metonym for a generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in many parts of the world.
  • It is usually a focal point for shops and retailers in the central business district, and is most often used in reference to retailing and socialising

    Reference: http://74.6.146.127/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22Main+Street%2...
vietnguyenngo
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người kinh doanh, hay nhà doanh nghiệp


Explanation:
Main Street no longer is so much about the physical place where you find all the necessity: post office, bank, pharmacy, grocer, auto repair shop, . . . The traditional definition of Main Street was a state of mind. Main Street now refers to all (small) business people and entrepreneurs, including e-commerce.

Example sentence(s):
  • Main Street
  • người kinh doanh, hay nhà doanh nghiệp
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