华尔街中级英语Lesson 17

My name is Melissa. I’m the assistant manager of the Virgin¹, megastore in Briton.
Let’s talk about the customers and their tastes-the changing face of the customer.
Are you selling more CDs these days?
Oh, yes, many more. People are now buying their equipment. They realize that vinal is dying out. And the only option is to move towards cd. We get a lot of older customer as well who like classical music and jazz, which obviously the quality is better on cd than on vynel or cassettes.
But I’ve spoken to a lot if customers today who say they are still with vynels.
Does that cause problems?
It does. There are some people who for whatever reason still prefer vynels, especially with the jazz, folk, and blues². We don’t actually sell that on vynel any more. So we do lose customers that way.
Virgin stores an enormous variety of music.
Look at their pretty long names, I don’t recognize.
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Do you have to know a lot about music to work here?
It helps. But I don’t come from a music background, I knew nothing apart from the bands I liked, when I joined Virgin. You do pick it up as you go along. We’re often expected to know everything. And it’s sometimes difficult. But normally there’s someone within the store who specializes in one or another department that we can send the customer to if we don’t know the answer.
Do customers actually come and ask you for advice?
Yes, they do. Often they’re hear know a piece of music from the advert³ or the television. They don’t know it and they want to buy it. So they come and ask if you know it. We get people who come in and whistle, a few notes of something they’re heard and, they expect us to know it. So we do spend a lot of time with customers. We do have to be quite customers-oriented.
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So at the end of day, you like your job?
Yes. It’s fun working here, all the people are great to work with. It’s a fun atmosphere. You get to listen to new records, and new videos. So the days go quite quickly.

1 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

2 blues   

n.抑郁，沮丧；布鲁斯音乐

参考例句：

• She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
• He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。

3 advert   

vi.注意，留意，言及；n.广告

参考例句：

• The advert featured a dolphin swimming around a goldfish bowl.该广告的內容为一条在金鱼缸里游动的海豚。
• Please advert to the contents below.I believe you won't be disappointed.敬请留意后面的内容。相信您一定不会失望的。