ESL Podcast 360 – A Management Dispute
时间：2019-02-26 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
Jeannie: Have you heard about the new management dispute?
Salih: No, what’s happening?
Jeannie: Well, the CEO is having problems with the head of one of the subsidiaries.
Salih: Which one?
Jeannie: Lance Publishing. Apparently 1, the head, Bill Riker, is saying that he and the CEO differ too much in their business philosophy and they can’t agree on a future direction for the company.
Salih: I really hope they can settle their dispute soon. It doesn’t do anybody any good to have so much hostility 2 in the office.
Jeannie: I hope so, too. This company can’t afford to have another high-level departure. We’ve lost so many good people already this past year.
Salih: We’ve had a lot of bad press, that’s for sure. It doesn’t matter that our employment contracts have confidentiality 3 agreements. When somebody is disgruntled, they talk, and they talk loudly and to whomever will listen.
Jeannie: You’ve got that right. I just hope none of us gets caught in the crossfire 4. I deal with people at Lance Publishing every week.
Salih: I’m with you. I’m keeping a low profile and hoping that the whole thing will blow over soon. What the CEO and the head of Lance Publishing need is a good mediator 5 who can find some way for two incompatible 6 personalities 7 to meet in the middle.
Jeannie: What do you think the chances are of that happening?
Salih: Quite frankly 8, knowing the people involved, I think it has a snowball’s chance in hell!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- There is open hostility between the two leaders.两位领导人表现出公开的敌意。
- His hostility to your plan is well known.他对你的计划所持的敌意是众所周知的。
- They signed a confidentiality agreement. 他们签署了一份保守机密的协议。
- Cryptography is the foundation of supporting authentication, integrality and confidentiality. 而密码学是支持认证、完整性和机密性机制的基础。
- They say they are caught in the crossfire between the education establishment and the government.他们称自己被卷进了教育机构与政府之间的争端。
- When two industrial giants clash,small companies can get caught in the crossfire.两大工业企业争斗之下，小公司遭受池鱼之殃。
- He always takes the role of a mediator in any dispute.他总是在争论中充当调停人的角色。
- He will appear in the role of mediator.他将出演调停者。
- His plan is incompatible with my intent.他的计划与我的意图不相符。
- Speed and safety are not necessarily incompatible.速度和安全未必不相容。
- There seemed to be a degree of personalities in her remarks.她话里有些人身攻击的成分。
- Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation.在一般的谈话中诽谤他人是不高尚的。