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Man: I’d like to introduce our studio guest, Sally Upton, who was the editor of the magazine ‘Teenage Fashion’ and is now about to produce her own magazines. Welcome Sally.
男：我想介紹一下我們的演播室嘉賓莎莉·厄普頓，她是《青少年時尚》雜志的編輯，現在正準備出版自己的雜志。歡迎莎莉。
Woman: Thank you.
女：謝謝。
Man: Sally, your first idea for publishing needed a one billion pound loan, didn’t it?
男：莎莉，你第一個出版的想法需要10億英鎊的貸款，不是嗎？
Woman: It did. I wanted to buy MPC - the biggest magazine company in the UK. And the bank agreed!
女：是的。我想買下MPC——英國最大的雜志公司。銀行同意了！
Man: But in fact that deal didn't succeed, so you didn’t borrow the money.
男：但事實上，那筆交易沒有成功，所以你沒有借錢。
Woman: That's right. Someone made them a better offer and then not long after I just missed another deal with a smaller company.
女：沒錯。有人給了他們更好的報價，不久之后我又錯過了另一筆與一家小公司的交易。
So, in the end I decided to see if it would be possible to find finance for a completely new company, which I’ve called Close Communications.
所以，最后我決定看看是否有可能為一家全新的公司找到資金，我稱之為“密切溝通”。
Man: Was it easy to find a bank to agree to the idea of a new company?
男：找一家與新公司想法一直的銀行容易嗎？
Woman: It’s harder to get financial support for starting a new company than for buying an existing one, even though I didn’t want nearly as much as a billion pounds.
女：盡管我并不想要幾十億英鎊，但是成立一家新公司比收購現有公司更難獲得資金支持。
I tried a lot of bankers, but none wanted to invest in us.
我試過很多銀行家，但沒有人想給我們投資。
Man: So, what then?
男：那么，后來怎么樣呢？
Woman: Well, I got a business partner, and he suggested something really simple.
女：我有個生意伙伴，他建議了一些非常簡單的東西。
We rang up six friends we knew had money to invest, and asked them to support us, and they agreed!
我們打電話給我們認識的六個有錢投資的朋友，請他們支持我們，他們同意了！
Man: Well, they were good friends! And how did you recruit your staff?
男：他們真是好朋友！那你又是如何招募員工的？
I’ve heard you use quite unusual methods ...
我聽說你用了非常不尋常的方法…...
