大忙人学社交口语 第40期:伏特加

 Conversation 1

会话1

Is there any more vodka in that bottle?

那个酒瓶里还有没有伏特加?

Uhm, I think there's enough for one more, yes.

嗯，有，我想一个人喝应该还够。

Marvelous. Pass it over. My name's George, by the way.

太好了，把它拿过来吧。对了，我叫George.

Nice to meet you, George. I'm Irene.

很高兴认识你，George。我是Ireneo

So Irene, what do you do?

Irene，你是做哪一行的?

I'm in computing¹. I work for Macrohard.

我是电脑业的，我在Macrohard服务。

Macrohard, eh?

Macrohard，是吗?

What do you do?

你是做哪一行的?

I have my own/I run my own company that designs computer systems.

我自己开公司设计电脑程序。

Conversation 2

对话2

So it's all very complicated.

所以它真的很复杂。

Sounds terrible. Oh, look-here comes Shirley.

听起来真麻烦。嘿，你看，Shirley来了。

Hello.

大家好。

Shirley, have you met Donald?

Shirley，你见过Donald吗?

No, not yet.

没有，还没见过。

Donald, I want you to meet Shirley.

Donald，我跟你引见一下Shirley。

Shirley is in marketing², and Donald runs his own export company.

Shirley是做营销的，Donald则是自己开进出口公司。

It's a pleasure to meet you, Donald.

很高兴认识你，Donald.

It's a pleasure to meet you too, Shirley.

我也是，Shirley.

We were just talking about George.

我们刚才在聊George。

I think he's had too much to drink.

我想他喝得太多了。

He's been having a hard time recently, and he's been hitting the vodka rather too much.

他最近过得不太好，所以他喝了很多伏特加。

1 computing   

n.计算

参考例句：

• to work in computing 从事信息处理
• Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。

2 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。