新东方商务口语[56]:结束陈述

结束陈述

Steven: This concludes our presentation. I would now like to open the floor to questions.
陈述到此结束。我现在回答你们的问题。

Christina: Can you tell us what your sales expectations are for the first year?
您第一年的销售期望值是多少？

Steven: Before I do that, I would like to refer to the third slide I showed you with our market forecasts.
在我回答这个问题前，我想用第三张幻灯片来向您展示我们的市场预测。

Christina: It looks rather bleak¹ for years 1 and 2.
看起来第一年和第二年很惨淡。

Steven: As you can see from the third graph, it picks up dramatically in year 3.
您看第三张图表，第三年的销售量会大幅度提高。

Christina: To summarize, you feel the next two years will be slow but are confident sales will pick up in the third year?
概括地说，您认为接下来的两年销售量增长会很缓慢，但有信心第三年就会大幅提高。
 

1 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。