时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:空中美语中级


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VOA美语咖啡屋 Lesson 75:Erica, Starting Your Own Business



J: Hello I'm Jody and welcome to American Cafe! 


Y: Sigh. Hello. 我是杨晨,欢迎您到美语咖啡屋。 


J: Yang Chen, what's wrong? I've never seen you this down before. 


Y: 哎哟,我心情不好啊。 你不知道我前段时间错过了一个赚钱的大好机会。现在后悔不得了。 


J: You know, sometimes things happen that you think at the time are...are bad. But actually in the end ... it turns out to be a good thing. Did that make sense to you? 


Y: Jody, 我知道你是好心,不过你的长篇大论我现在没有心情领教。 


J: I understand. But maybe you'll want to listen to our guest today. Erica. Maybe she can help you. 


Y: Erica? 她是个心理学家吗? 


J: No, she's not a psychologist. She's a web designer. 


Y: 网页设计师。那她能帮我什么? 


J: Well, Erica started her own business in web design completely by accident. 


Y: 她是由于一个偶然的机会开始自己做生意。我得听听是怎么回事。 


实录1: Erica: I started my own business by accident really. I was laid off a job that I didn' t really like which was actually perfect for me. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. 


Y: Erica 说她被laid off,被解雇了。 


J: That's right - no work. 


Y: 工作也没有了,她还说这是好事? 


J: Well, she was laid off a job that she really didn't like. So, that's not really bad news. 


Y: Well, 我知道她不喜欢原来的工作,可她至少还有个工作啊,那总从比失业要好吧! 


J: Just hold on to your horses. I mean, take it easy. I mean, wait just a minute. There's more to the story. Here again is Erica... 


实录2: Erica: But by getting laid off, I didn't have to feel guilty about quitting a job to start a business. So while I was looking for a new job, I started doing websites for people and then I started to make myself a portfolio 1, a website, and it just sort of rolled from there. 


Y: 她刚才提到一个词Portfolio。在这里就是积累工作经验。 


J: Exactly, a collection of your work experience. Something you can actually hold onto for example photographs - or even something you can't hold onto like a website. You know, Erica brought up so many great words related 2 to starting your own business. In the next there's more. We're going to hear "Getting money in the door" 


Y: 赚钱的意思。 


J: Right. "Pool of clients 3." 


Y: 一批顾客。 


J: And "coming out of the woodwork." 


J: "Coming out of the woodwork" is a slang 4 expression meaning all of a sudden and from every direction. 


Y: 就是你莫名其妙地出现了一堆顾客。 


J: Coming out of the woodwork, yes. 


Y: 那一定她的幸运特别好,所以人们一个传一个说Erica是一个非常好的 web designer 所以大家都来找她。 


J: 等一下,等一下。You're getting ahead of the story. Here's Erica. 


实录3: Erica: I did end up getting a fulltime job for a while just to get money in the door because it takes a long time to start your own business. And it took me a long to get clients. It took me about a year to start to get a pool of clients. But the economy picked up again and then it was basically 5 a full-year cycle. And when I hit one-year I had clients coming out of the woodwork. It was amazing. 


Y: 你看,我说什么,我猜得不错吧。她的生意非常好所以顾客远远不断地来找她。 


J: Again, Yang Chen, you were right. When she hit the one-year mark, clients started coming out of the woodwork. And now she has a large pool of clients. She even has to turn people down. 


Y: 就她太忙,忙不过来,有的时候别人来她,她就告诉他们“我实在没有时间接你们的生意。” 


J: She has so many clients that she can undercut other businesses. 


Y: Erica,生意之所以这么好可能还有一个原因,那就是她的要价比别人底。是不是? 


J: Exactly, that means she's undercutting other businesses. 


实录4: Erica: To this day I' m still overwhelmed 6 by clients. I'm undercutting a lot of other businesses. I should be charging much more than I am. But you know, I' m working with small businesses and I like working with small businesses. 


J: So, Yang Chen, the lesson here is don't worry about a lost opportunity. It could lead to an even better opportunity. 


Y: 其实从Erica身上我看到有时候那个机会自己会来找你!机会自己就会来敲门! 


J: That's the right attitude. Thanks for joining us on American Cafe! 


Y: 谢谢你收听美语咖啡屋,我们下次节目再见。




1 portfolio
n.公事包;文件夹;大臣及部长职位
  • He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
  • He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。
2 related
adj.有关系的,有关联的,叙述的,讲述的
  • I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
  • We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
3 clients
n.顾客( client的名词复数 );当事人;诉讼委托人;[计算机]客户端
  • a lawyer with many famous clients 拥有许多著名委托人的律师
  • She understood the importance of establishing a close rapport with clients. 她懂得与客户建立密切和谐的关系的重要性。
4 slang
n.俚语,行话;vt.使用俚语,辱骂;vi.辱骂
  • The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.这个短语在这本字典里被注为俚语。
  • Slang often goes in and out of fashion quickly.俚语往往很快风行起来又很快不再风行了。
5 basically
adv.基本上,从根本上说
  • His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
  • Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。
6 overwhelmed
[ overwhelm ]的过去式
  • She was overwhelmed by feelings of guilt. 她感到愧疚难当。
  • If (one was) overwhelmed by passion, it could lead to serious blunders. 当感情完全淹没理智时,就可能铸成大错。
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