白领英语口语速查 第39期:部门职能:总经理办公室(1)

 　　Unit 5 部门职能

　　总经理办公室

　　In the Chief Manager's Office

　　你的行程都准备好了吗？

　　Are you all set for your trip?

　　A: Samson,are you all set for your trip to Singapore?

　　B: Yeah,this is my last day in the office.

　　Tomorrow morning the secretary of 3M company will meet us at the airport.

　　A: Great,but don't forget to solve the delivery problem.

　　我们不能按时发货。

　　Our products cannot be delivered on time.=There will be a late delivery for our products.

　　A: Did my secretary inform you that our products cannot be delivered on time?

　　B: No,I didn't get any information.

　　A: How come?

　　B: Well,to be frank,I've been so busy with making arrangements for the promotion¹ campaign

　　that I didn't have any time to keep an eye on things like that!

　　他想知道您可否把会议推迟一下。

　　He was wondering if you can postpone²/delay your meeting.

　　A: Sir,David called just now when you were out.

　　B: What's up?

　　A: He was wondering if you can postpone your meeting of this afternoon to the end of this week.

　　He said he has something urgent to do.

　　B: That's awful!By the end of this week,I will be negotiating³ with a business partner in Shanghai.

　　本周五我的日程安排得非常紧。

　　I've got a very tight schedule on Friday.

　　A: I've got a very tight schedule on Friday.

　　B: But John said there was an emergency.

　　A: He messed up everything!What time did he suggest?

　　B: Is next Monday OK?

　　A: I could do nothing else.

　　严格按照日程安排行事

　　stick to schedule tightly⁴

　　A: I've been through the entire program for the visit.

　　It's a fairly good schedule.

　　B: And our CEO will be there, too.

　　A: All we've got to do now is to make sure

　　that we should stick to that schedule tightly.

　　B: Everything will be fine!

1 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

2 postpone   

v.延期，推迟

参考例句：

• I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
• She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。

3 negotiating   

n. 谈判 动词negotiate的现在分词

参考例句：

• They were coerced into negotiating a settlement. 他们被迫通过谈判解决。
• We want to get all the parties back to the negotiating table. 我们想把有关各方拉回到谈判桌上来。

4 tightly   

adv.紧紧地，坚固地，牢固地

参考例句：

• My child holds onto my hand tightly while we cross the street.横穿马路时，孩子紧拉着我的手不放。
• The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.人群挤在一起，我们几乎喘不过气来。