职业技术英语口语 第15期:参观工厂 布局描述

 　　Describing the layout

　　布局描述

　　Good morning, everybody. Welcome to IAM Technology. I'm very pleased so many of you could make it here today. My name's Sam Weiss. I'm the Production Manager. I'd like to show you the layout of the factory before we go and visit it. As you can see from this diagram, everything is under one roof. We've designed it this way to help the flow of materials and to avoid bottlenecks¹.

　　大家上午好。迎光临IAM技术公司。我很高兴大家今天能在百忙之中抽空来到此地。我叫萨姆韦斯。我是这里的生产经理。在我们前往参观工厂之前，我给大家介绍一下本工厂的布局。正如大家在这个示意图中所见，所有的一切都在一个房顶之下。我们这样设计有助于物料流转避免生产中的瓶颈问题。

　　This area here is where we keep our raw materials. The main production area - our machine hall - is situated² next to it Maintenance is situated between the stores and the production area.Just to the right of Maintenance, there are steps up to the Lab and the Admin Section. Process Control is also on the upper level. It's located above the factory floor so that the operators can monitor everything that is going on below.

　　这里的这个区域是我们存放原材料的地方。这是生产主区-我们的主机房-位于原材料区旁。维修区在仓储区和生产区之间。维修区的右面有台阶通往实验室和管理区。工艺控制区也在上层。它在工厂的上面，这样工作人员可以监视下面的一切。

1 bottlenecks   

n.瓶颈( bottleneck的名词复数 )；瓶颈路段（常引起交通堵塞）；（尤指工商业发展的）瓶颈；阻碍

参考例句：

• Roadworks are causing bottlenecks in the city centre. 道路施工导致市中心交通阻塞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• At five o'clock in the afternoon the city streets are a series of bottlenecks. 下午五点市中心的街道就成了拥挤不堪的窄路。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 situated   

adj.坐落在...的，处于某种境地的

参考例句：

• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
• She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。