外贸口语一点通第238期:参观公司之带领参观

 　　Show around

　　带领参观

　　A: Mr. Brown, I'd like to welcome you to our tools factory site. My name is Li Hui and I will be showing you around today. Please feel free to ask questions at any point during our tour, I will be happy to answer questions for you. I hope you will have a main idea about our factory.

　　布朗先生，欢迎您来到我们工厂参观。我叫李辉，今天由我来带您参观工厂。参观期间，如果有问题请随时提问。我乐于为您解答。希望您会对我们厂有个主要了解。

　　B: Thank you.

　　谢谢。

　　A: Now this is our office block. We have all the administrative¹ departments here: Sales, Accounting², Personnel, Market Research and so on.

　　这是我们的办公区，我们所有的行政部门都在这儿：销售部、会计部、人事部、市场调查部等等。

　　B: Can I have a look at your main plant?

　　我能看看你们的主要车间吗？

　　A: Yes, this way. Considering your safety, please wear protective gear.

　　可以，这边走。考虑到您的安全，请戴上安全防护装备。

　　B: Is it really necessary to wear all this protective gear.

　　真的有必要戴上防护装备吗？

　　A: Yes. I'll bet your wondering why we ask you to wear hard hats and safty goggles³ while you're in the plant. The reason is simple: we want to ensure there are no injures today. As you will see, to maintain a high level of safety, we also require all of our staff to wear similar protective gear.

　　是的。我敢说您一定想知道我们为什么要求您戴上工程帽和护目镜。原因很简单，我们要确保今天不出任何受伤现象。您还会看到，为了保证绝对安全，我们要求所有的员工也都戴上同样的防护装备。

　　B: Okay.

　　好吧。

　　A: Here in the main plant is where most of the action takes place. We produce and package more than six hundred thousand units per year on these machines.

　　这里是主要生产车间，大部分生产在此完成。我们用这些机器每年要生产和包装60万套产品。

　　B: How many employees do you have working in this area?

　　这个车间有多少人？

　　A: We have about 50 employees on the ground floor, which is about 20% of the total staff. Ground floor employees include production line workers, maintenance staff, and quality control managers.

　　有50人在这里工作，占总人数的20%，包括生产线工人、维修工和质量检查人员。

　　B: What do all your quality control people oversee⁴?

　　质量检察人员负责检查什么？

　　A: They are responsible for ensuring the continuity of quality of the products that come out of our plant. Here, let's move on to the assembly shop.

　　他们负责确保我们工厂生产的产品质量的稳定性。现在，让我们去装配车间看看。

　　B: It's up to you.

　　你决定吧。

　　A: OK. Let's go.

　　好，走吧。

　　B: All right.

　　好的。

　　1. “considering”在这里是个介词，后面接名词。意为“鉴于，考虑到”。

　　Eg. She is very active, considering her age.

　　就她的年龄来说，她是够活跃的。

　　“considering”也可以做连词，后面接个句子。

　　Eg. Considering he's only just started, he knows quite a lot about it.

　　考虑到他只是刚刚开始，他对此的了解已经不少了。

　　2. responsible for 是……的原由；为……负责

　　eg. While you are responsible for your duties, you cannot do everything by yourself.

　　当你对你的任务负责时，你就不能亲自做每一项事情。

　　eg. After all, if a person is not responsible for their own brain, who is?

　　毕竟，如果一个人不能为自己的大脑负责，谁能呢？

1 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

2 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

3 goggles   

n.护目镜

参考例句：

• Skiers wear goggles to protect their eyes from the sun.滑雪者都戴上护目镜使眼睛不受阳光伤害。
• My swimming goggles keep steaming up so I can't see.我的护目镜一直有水雾，所以我看不见。

4 oversee   

vt.监督，管理

参考例句：

• Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
• Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。