Feb 6, 2018 11:35
7 yrs ago
English term
China
getting to his feet
English to Chinese
Bus/Financial
IT (Information Technology)
IT
Digby once worked for a business that started life as a division of another company. He arrived just as the new outfit was {getting to his feet} and found “the departing ‘engineers’ shoved everything into a fairly small server room, with three racks in an L-shape, cabled it up to get it working, and then buggered off.”
另，既然主语是the new outfit，为什么不说getting to its feet呢？
另，既然主语是the new outfit，为什么不说getting to its feet呢？
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the new outfit was {getting to his feet} 公司刚开业/起步/上轨道的时候
outfit 用于比如前文的a business。
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Note added at 54 mins (2018-02-06 12:30:31 GMT)
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关于out·fit的参考资料：
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/outfit
Outfit 指公司，因此其后用its、his或her都可以。
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Note added at 1 hr (2018-02-06 13:20:16 GMT)
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the outfit 也有可能是指全套设备，也就是这些设备都被架设好、准备好运行了。因为是集体名词，因此用单数的his。作者没有用its，是因为这里是拟人用法。
outfit 用于比如前文的a business。
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Note added at 54 mins (2018-02-06 12:30:31 GMT)
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关于out·fit的参考资料：
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/outfit
Outfit 指公司，因此其后用its、his或her都可以。
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Note added at 1 hr (2018-02-06 13:20:16 GMT)
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the outfit 也有可能是指全套设备，也就是这些设备都被架设好、准备好运行了。因为是集体名词，因此用单数的his。作者没有用its，是因为这里是拟人用法。
Note from asker:
| outfit应该是指公司。 |
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