6.航班超額預(yù)定

Clerk: Good evening, Mr. Lee and thank you for choosing our airline. We have just discovered that this flight is overbooked. Would you like to volunteer to give up your seat?
晚上好，Lee先生。歡迎乘坐本公司航班。我們發(fā)現(xiàn)航班已經(jīng)超額預(yù)定。您能自愿放棄自已的座位嗎？

Mr. Lee: Overbooked? Give up my seat? I don’t understand.
超額預(yù)定？放棄自已的座位？我不明白。

Clerk: From time to time we have a situation in which there are more passengers than there are seats on the aircraft. That’s overbooked.
有時(shí)我們會(huì)出現(xiàn)乘客比座位多的情況。這就是超額預(yù)定。

Mr. Lee: I know what overbooked is, I just don’t understand how that could happen?
我知道什么是“超額預(yù)定”。我只是不明白怎么會(huì)發(fā)生這樣的事。

Clerk: Actually it’s a common practice to overbook, as passengers often don’t take their flight as scheduled. Most of the time there is no problem but today, more passengers arrived than we have seats, so we really are overbooked.
其實(shí)超額預(yù)定是航空公司普遍的做法，因乘客并不一定按計(jì)劃乘坐航班。多數(shù)情況下不會(huì)出現(xiàn)問題，但是今天來的乘客比座位多，我們真的超額預(yù)定了。

Mr. Lee: So who has to stay behind?
那么誰會(huì)走不了而留下呢？

Clerk: Well, first we ask for volunteers. If someone like yourself volunteers, they receive a free round trip ticket to be used within one year. If no one volunteers we just have to select someone.
我們先看看有沒有自愿的。自愿的人可以得到一張一年內(nèi)有效的免費(fèi)往返票。如果沒有人自愿，我們只好指定了。

Mr. Lee: Ok. I’ll volunteer. I could use a free ticket!
那好，我自愿放棄。我愿意得到一張免費(fèi)機(jī)票。