VOA 商务英语：第9课

Lesson 9

　　Dialog1:

　　supplier 供应商 fill an order(完成定单)

　　F: So Dement, Style plus has a well-defined(明确的) market niche.
　　M: Yes and their market is growing.
　　F: and you said they can not keep up with the demand.
　　M: That’s right; they are getting more orders than they can fill.
　　F: They are losing orders and losing money.
　　M: the retailers are going to other suppliers.
　　F: it’s the old problem, if you can’t fill an order, someone else can.
　　M: She said they have a solution to their production problem
　　F: What is it?
　　M: I’ll find out today what it is.
　　Q: where are retailers going?
　　A: to other retailers

　　Dialog 2:

　　Computerized(电脑化),computer- operated（使用电脑操作）, production line（生产线，区别 product line 产品系列）

　　M: How have you decided to increase production?
　　F: We are going to use computers.
　　M: You’re going to computerize the entire production line?
　　F: the entire line, we need to keep machines running day and night.
　　M: What about your employees?
　　F: now, we have one employee per machine.
　　M: But with a computer-operated system…
　　F: With a computer-operated system, we’ll have one employee for ten machines.
　　Q: How will they increase production?
　　A: by using computers.

　　Dialog 3:

　　Workforce(劳动力)，option(选择)，retrain(再培训).

　　M: so your employees will no longer operate machines.
　　F: No, now they’ll operate computers.
　　M: I imagine (I suppose) they don’t know how to use computers.
　　F: No, they are not computer literate.
　　M: so what will you do with your employees?
　　F: That’s my question for you, what will I do with my workforce?
　　M: it seems you have two options.
　　F: retrain them or replace them?
　　M: those are the options
　　F: It’s a difficult choice.
　　Q: what’s the problem with the workforce?
　　A: they aren’t computer literate.
　　
　　Small talk：(得体地记起某人)
　　――Excuse me ,Don，t I know you?/Haven’t me met before?
　　――Yes, we met yesterday. /I am not sure, you look familiar. /No, we haven’t/
　　――I am sorry, I am good with faces but bad with names.