评论
打印
Nineteen
十九
Man: You've been in this department for three months,
你在这个部门已经工作三个月了，
John, and I'm very pleased with your work.
约翰，我对你的工作很满意。
You've obviously mastered the regular things - paperwork, customer enquiries etcetera,
很明显你已经掌握了常规业务——文书工作，客户咨询等等，
and you've made some excellent proposals for improvements.
你提出的一些改进建议很好。
I think it's time to see how you manage more challenging work.
我认为是时候让你从事更有挑战性的工作了。
How would you feel about taking on my responsibility for the finance committee?
你对接任财务委员会有何看法?
It'd mean taking minutes and liaising with the chair.
这意味着要做会议纪要，要保持业务联络。
You'd find it interesting and I could concentrate on the end-of-year report.
你会发现它很有趣，而且我可以把注意力集中在年终报告上。
Twenty
二十
Woman: From the figures, it's clear that our Canadian outlets are below target - approximately twenty percent below for the third quarter,
从数据来看，显然我们在加拿大的销售业绩低于目标——第三季度我们低于目标20%。
if the finance report is right. Now what should we do about it?
如果财务报告正确的话，现在我们该怎么办呢？
Cut our losses and close the outlets? That's the MD's view.
减少损失并关闭销售点？这是MD的观点。
I think it's too early to do that. We've invested heavily in Canada and we don't want to lose that investment.
我认为现在还为时过早。我们在加拿大进行了大量投资，我们不想失去这笔投资。
Let's send someone over to try to turn the position round and then make a judgment in December.
我们派人去扭转局势，然后12月再做决定。
