Tony Talk
时间：2018-11-28 作者：英语课 分类：疯狂英语2002年
Tony Provolone: Hello and welcome to Tony Talk, I’m Tony Provolone and with me today is Robert Foster 1, an American living in China. Robert, hello.
Robert Foster: Hello.
Tony: Robert, we know you’r e had a lot of business experience in the United States. We understand you worked for General Motors Corporation 2.
Robert: Yes, that’s correct.
Tony: What would you say are some of the most memorable 3 or exciting projects?
Robert: Probably one of the most memorable and exciting was the work that we did for NASA, the first lunar mobility 4 vehicle.
Tony: You guys went to the moon then.
Robert: We did, yes, so to speak. We had our name on it anyway. We had been given the responsibility of designing, creating and designing a vehicle, which would have mobility on the moon. We hired a very brilliant astrophysicist from Cornell University _ Dr. Thomas Gold. Gold had the theory that the moon was covered with dust, very deep dust and that a normal vehicle would not be mobile 5. It would slip and slide around so we designed a vehicle with paddles on the wheels, blades 6 on the wheels, but it was successful, and that was one of the most interesting things we did because it got us heavily involved in the whole lunar program with NASA.
Tony: You’ve also worked in China, right?
Robert: Yes, I’ve worked in China mainly in logistics area transportation and logistics.
Tony: What are some of the more interesting projects you’ve worked on in China?
Robert: Well, I think probably certainly one of them is a project that we’ve been working on with the Chinese central government to try to develop a super carrier 7 to compete with the Western, particularly the American carriers 8 like FedEx, UPS with Maersk Shipping 9 Company. We’re trying to put together a consortium of other Chinese companies, ocean carriers, EMS and the post office and the railways a number of Chinese Sino-Trans and a number of Chinese carriers that would consolidate 10 and be more effective in competing after WTO.
Tony: You did some railway work in China?
Robert: Planning work, railway planning work to improve the railways. Recommending that the rail budget be significantly 11 increased in place of highways that more rail be built and not so many highways.
Tony: You’ve been here for how long?
Robert: Well this trip I’ve been here for one year.
Tony: What do you like best about China? Besides the food.
Robert: I think the total culture. I really love the culture. I think it’s great. The strong family, the strength of the family, the family structure. The Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year for example, the return to the home bringing the relatives together, having family dinners, cooking, shopping together. The very strong drive for education. The tremendous 12 sacrifice that most Chinese parents make for their children to have them educated is really remarkable 13.
Tony: Yes, Robert we also know that you’ve done some travelling around the Pacific.
Robert: Right.
Tony: You took a sailing... You sailed around the Pacific?
Robert: Yes a group of us had a sailing adventure from the West Coast of the US to Hawaii and then to Indonesia and all over the Pacific.
Tony: So you sailed from California?
Robert: From Los Angeles.
Tony: From Los Angeles across the ocean.
Robert: Right.
Tony: That must have been really, really wild.
Robert: Some parts of it were more wild than we wanted.
Tony: Really? What was the most...Were there any dangerous situations where you...
Robert: Uh, we ran into some storms. It was fairly hairy for a while.
Tony: How many people were on the boat?
Robert: Seven.
Tony: Seven. Did you run out of supplies or anything like that?
Robert: Uh, we didn’t actually run out of food, we ran out of water for a while, and we underestimated 14 the water because of the storm had delayed us.
Tony: What did you do about the water did you try to...
Robert: Well we got to the next island and got some water there.
Tony: Oh.
Robert: So we were OK.
Tony: Unforgettable experience!
Robert: Yes.
Tony: What did you do when you got to, you said you went to Malaysia?
Robert: Uh, Indonesia.
Tony: Indonesia.
Robert: We got to Jakarta and all around Indonesia, which has a great number of islands. And we went to an island, which is the home of the only real dragon, the Komoto. And we went to Japan and Hainan and a variety of other all around the Pacific.
Tony: Wow, it was a real whirlwind tour of the South Pacific.
Robert: Yes, very exciting, right very exciting.
Tony: That’s great! Thank you very much for your time. Thanks again for listening to Tony Talk, and we’ll see you next time! Bye, bye!
Robert: Bye, bye! CE
- Nowadays young couple sometimes foster.现今年轻夫妇有时领养别人的孩子。
- The captain did his best to foster a sense of unity among the new recruits.队长尽力培养新成员之间的团结精神。
- The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation. 这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
- The inflation did the corporation up. 通货膨胀使这个公司破产了。
- This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
- The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
- The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
- Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
- The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.那位老妇人每天上午坐在一把可携带使用的椅子上。
- She's much more mobile now that she's bought a car.自从她买了汽车后，活动量就大多了。
- the blades of a propeller 螺旋桨叶
- Stay well away from the helicopter when its blades start to rotate. 直升机的螺旋桨开始转动时，尽量离远点儿。
- The airplane lifted from the aircraft carrier.飞机从航空母舰上起飞。
- I applied for the job as a mail carrier.我申请邮差的工作。
- Mosquitoes are carriers of disease. 蚊子是疾病的传播媒介。
- The chair carriers arrived at the crack of dawn. 轿是一早就到了。
- We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
- There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
- The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
- The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
- Prices did not alter significantly during 2004. 2004年期间，价格没有大的变化。
- American English is significantly different from British English. 美国英语与英国英语有很大差异。
- This book was the outcome of a tremendous amount of scientific work.这本书是大量科学研究工作的成果。
- There is a tremendous difference between them.他们之间有着极大的差别。
- She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
- These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
- They underestimated his abilities. 他们过低估计了他的才能。
- He says that we've underestimated natural variability. 他说我们低估了自然的变异性。