商务口语第40讲:主持会议(2)

1.Round up everyone  召集大家

A: Do we have everybody?
B: No, we're still missing¹ a few guys.
A: Go and round them up.
B: Okay.

A：大家都到齐了吗？
B：还没有，还缺几个人。
A：去把他们叫来吧。
B：好的。

2.Short notice 晚接到通知

A: Thanks for meeting with us with such a short notice.
B: No problem.

A：谢谢你们在我们通知得这么晚的情况下来参加会议。
B：没问题。

3.Think loud 广开思路

A: Please think loud; think out of the box.
B: Right. This is the way of brain storming.

A：请广开思路，不要太受限制。
B：是的，这就是头脑风暴的方式。

4.If we are squared on this one 如果这个（问题）谈清楚了的话

A: If we are squared on this one, let's go to the next topic.
B: I'm all set on this topic.

A：如果这个问题谈清楚了的话，咱们来讨论下一个问题。
B：我对这个问题谈完了。

5.Jumping up and down 反应强烈

A: The audience was jumping up and down, asking me all kinds of questions.
B: That was good. They were at least intersted in your topic.

A：听众们反应强烈，提出各种各样的问题。
B：那好啊，至少他们对你的话题感兴趣。

1 missing   

adj.遗失的，缺少的，失踪的

参考例句：

• Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具，看有无丢失。
• All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了，就短他一个。