You told me to find ways to drum up business.

你让我想办法招揽客人。

Although he may have just been trying to drum up business for his brother-in-law's witch doctor practice.

不过他可能是帮自家小叔子的招揽巫医生意。

They have set up a platoon of 24 travelling bankers to drum up business in areas far from its branches.

他们设立了一个由24个四处出差的银行家组成的团队，在远离其分行所在的地区推广业务。

That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

这意味着在有1650亿美元没有用在发展业务上，而是花在了招人讨厌，产生垃圾以及充塞垃圾邮件过滤器上。

Chuck, could you find another way to drum up business?

恰克 你能不能换个方式来招揽生意啊？

Perot was in Europe, drumming up business for his new investment company.

【business】佩罗在欧洲为他新开的投资公司拉生意。

That's a hell of a way to drum up business for the dim sum.

点心店总有很多招数招徕生意。

So why don't you spend some time brainstorming on new ideas of how to drum up business?

那么，为什么不花一些时间集思广益，想出如何招揽生意的新想法呢？

I can't remember which is which, but you can place ads let's say in Google so you can drum up business anywhere in the world.

我记不太清具体是哪种服务了，就是要发布广告，比如说在谷歌上发布广告吧，这样就能在世界各地招揽业务了。

Well, you are sort of right but a drummer also used to be an informal way of describing a traveling salesperson, because their job was to drum up business for a company, meaning they tried to increase sales.

嗯，你说对了一部分，但是鼓手也曾经是描述旅行销售的非正式说法，因为他们的工作是帮公司提升业绩，意味着他们努力提升销售额。

Well, you are sort of right but a drummer also used to be an informal way of describing a travelling salesperson – because their job was to drum up business for a company – meaning they tried to increase sales.

嗯，在某种程度上你是对的，但" drummer" 也曾是用来形容旅行推销员的一种非正式方式，因为他们的工作是为公司招徕生意，那是指他们努力提高销量。