商业周刊:让女性能够安全约会的社交应用(18)

When the bill signing was over, Bumble's legal team went out for a celebratory lunch.

法案签署结束后，Bumble的律师团队出去吃了一顿庆祝午餐。

Before they left, Wolfe Herd¹ pulled me aside. She said she wanted Bumble employees to feel free to talk to me and asked if I'd please relay the message.

在他们离开之前，沃尔夫·赫德把我拉到一边。她说，她希望Bumble的员工能自由地和我交谈，并问我是否愿意转达这一信息。

That was the last time we spoke². Over the intervening months, the opening of Brew-ery was again delayed and Wolfe Herd had a son and started a four-month maternity³ leave.

那是我们最后一次交谈。在接下来的几个月里，酝酿厂再次推迟开放，沃尔夫·赫德生下一子，开始了为期四个月的产假。

Bumble workers still didn't trust her assurance that they were free to talk.

Bumble员工仍然不相信，她保证过他们可以自由交谈。

Not only were they still hindered by the nondisclosure agreement, but Austin is a small city.

他们不仅仍然受到保密协议的阻碍，而且奥斯汀是一个小城市。

Many of them still live there. They were applying for jobs or starting their own businesses and worried Wolfe Herd would retaliate⁴ against them.

他们中的许多人仍然住在那里，正在申请工作或创业，担心沃尔夫·赫德会报复他们。

She was too wealthy, too well connected, employees said. Compared with her, they were nobodies.

员工们说，她太富有，人脉太广。与她相比，他们是无名小卒。

Once Wolfe Herd was named CEO of MagicLab, I asked Bumble if her promise not to sue held true.

沃尔夫·赫德被任命为社交网络服务提供商MagicLab的首席执行官后，我询问Bumble她不起诉的承诺是否属实。

Now that she was officially in charge, would she let people speak out? The answer was no.

既然她是正式的掌权人，她会让人们畅所欲言吗？答案是否定的。

1 herd   

n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 maternity   

n.母性，母道，妇产科病房；adj.孕妇的，母性的

参考例句：

• Women workers are entitled to maternity leave with full pay.女工产假期间工资照发。
• Trainee nurses have to work for some weeks in maternity.受训的护士必须在产科病房工作数周。

4 retaliate   

v.报复，反击

参考例句：

• He sought every opportunity to retaliate against his enemy.他找机会向他的敌人反击。
• It is strictly forbidden to retaliate against the quality inspectors.严禁对质量检验人员进行打击报复。