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Speaker One
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Woman: Well, now it’s all over, I can only hope we’ve learnt the right lessons from the experience. Although the consultants at the time urged caution, the board were sure of the plan – after all, it was the sort of thing they’d pulled off before – and ploughed ahead with the launch of the new division.
女：好在如今問題已經解決了，我只希望，我們從這次的經歷中吸取了正確的教訓。盡管當時的顧問囑咐我們要小心行事，董事會還是看好我們的方案會起效，他們原本是要推遲那種計劃轉而設立新部門繼續前進的。
But the board wouldn’t accept that the predicted boom in these new overseas markets was bound to be unstable because of likely fluctuations in currency rates and share prices, and that’s where it all came unstuck.
但董事會拒絕接受新開辟的海外市場本可以很景氣，如今卻要因為匯率和股票價格的浮動發生震蕩，這就是我們的瓶頸所在。
They reacted sensibly, though, and now we have established a good joint venture there, which is a better bet than going it alone, or slashing costs all over the place and laying people off in a panic.
但董事會還是做出了理智的決定，如今，我們已經在那邊成立了一個很好的合資企業，總好過在慌亂中獨自應付或者到處降價裁員。
