對話1

A: Good afternoon, Mr.Green. I’m Jill, Mr.Smith’s secretary. Would you like to look around the factory first?

下午好，格林先生，我是吉爾，史密斯的秘書。您要先參觀一下工廠嗎?

B: Yes, I would.是的。

A: Now this is our office block. We have all the administrative departments here: Sales, Accounting, Personnel, Market Research and so on.

這是我們的辦公區，我們所有的行政部門都在這兒：銷售部，會計部，人事部，市場調查部等等。

B: What’s that building opposite us?對著我們的那座樓是做什么的?

A: That’s the warehouse where the larger items of medical instruments are stored. We keep a stock of the fast-moving items so that urgent orders can be met quickly from stock.

那是儲存著大量醫療設備的倉庫。我們儲存著大量醫療設備以備緊急之需。

B: If I ordered an X-ray apparatus today, how long would I have to wait for the delivery in Scotland?

如果我今天訂一套X光設備，要多長時間運到蘇格蘭?

A: I think you’d better speak to our work’s manager, Mr. Smith. You’ll meet him when we go over to the factory. We’ll go there now. ( In the workshop) This is one of our three workshops. This is the delivery bay here.

我認為您應該同我們的生產經理史密斯先生談。在參觀過程中我們會遇到他。我們現在去那兒。(在車間)這是我們三個車間的一個。這是運輸車間。

B: Oh, I see.哦，知道了。

A: The steel sheets and bars come in, as you see, in different sizes and are unloaded onto the delivery bay here, We buy them in from a steel works in Wales. This is the new conveyor belt we had installed last year. We doubled our output in this department as a result.

就像您看到的，不同型號的鋼板和鋼絲運來了，并且在運輸車間。我們是從威爾士的鋼廠買來的。這是我們剛安裝的輸送帶，使我們的產量提高了兩倍。

B: Oh, really?哦，真的嗎?

A: I’ll take you to the assembly shop……….我帶你們去看看我們的裝配車間。

B: It’s up to you.您決定吧。

A: Ok, let’s go.好。請吧。

B: All right.走吧。