Woman: Hello, Mr Michael, thanks for talkine to me today.
女:你好,邁克爾先生,謝謝你今天跟我談話。
Man: Not at all.
男:不用客氣。
Woman: Your company is located in such wonderful countryside. I expect your clients like coming here, don't they? Or do diey find it difficult to get here?
女:貴公司坐落在這么美麗的鄉(xiāng)村。我想你的客戶很喜歡來這里,不是嗎?還是他們覺得到這里交通不便?
Man: Actually, the transport links aren't too bad, but we very rarely see our customers in person. What they do like about it is that it's a pretty secret location and rather difficult to find. Our work is very confidential.
男:事實上,交通線路還不錯,但是我們很少見到我們的顧客。他們喜歡這里是因為,這是一個非常秘密的地點,很難找到。我們的工作非常隱蔽。
Woman: Ah yes. Your designs are beginning to make the designs of some of your competitors look rather old-fashioned. How do your designers work on their ideas? Is it all about technology?
女:是的。你們的設計開始使一些競爭對手的設計顯得很過時。你的設計師是如何實現(xiàn)他們的想法的?技術就可以解決一切嗎?
Man: Technology is the biggest part. We certainly have no use for pencils and drawing boards like the old-style design studios. Our designers use the latest computer-aided design system. Ideas can be tested from all angles just by using the computer screen. However; we haven't stopped building models completely - we just put the design into a solid form using clay or foam at a later stage of the process.
男:技術是最重要的部分。我們當然不像老式設計工作室那樣需要鉛筆和畫板。我們的設計師使用最新的計算機輔助設計系統(tǒng)。只用電腦屏幕就能從各個角度審視構思。然而;我們并沒有完全停止構建模型-我們只是在后期使用粘土或泡沫將設計變成固體形式。
Woman: Ah-ha. I know you have several important projects at the moment. Who is your biggest client?
女:嗯。我知道你們現(xiàn)在有幾個重要的項目。誰是你們最大的客戶?
Man: All our work's important to us. We're best known for designing bikes and motorbikes, but the company that keeps us busiest these days is car producer. However, there are also hundreds of different household items that we've designed in the past.
男:我們所有的工作對我們都很重要。我們以設計自行車和摩托車而聞名,但現(xiàn)在讓我們最忙的是汽車生產(chǎn)商。然而,我們過去也設計了數(shù)百種不同的家居用品。