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 administrative 1 departments here: Sales, Accounting 2, 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 goggles 3 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 oversee 4?
　　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？