介绍:
Part Three：Business English Dialogues：
Lesson 32 Project Progress 项目进度
Words:
Compensate 回报；conduct 进行；demographic 人群统计；extract 提炼出；intern实习生；macroeconomic 宏观经济；modify 修改；
Phrases:
Be based on 按照；be on schedule 按进度完成；gather information 收集信息；get a sense of 了解一下；get started 开始； identified target market;确定的目标市场；if necessary 如果必要的话； listen up everyone 大家请注意；
Make progress 有进展；meet the deadline 按期限完成；project timeline 项目进展时间表；put it in report form 写入报告；qualitative research 定性研究；relevant information 相关的消息； sift through it 从中筛选；so far 到目前为止；step up one’s pace 加快速度；
Dialogue 1：
Cecil: Okay, let’s get started. I want to get a sense of how we’re doing with the market research project for Mueller Manufacturing。 Yolanda, where do we stand with the macroeconomic analysis？
Cecil: 好了，我们开始吧。我想了一下, 为米勒制造公司的市场调研项目进展得怎么样了？ 约兰德，我们的宏观经济分析做到了什么程度了？
Yolanda：I’ve got most of the data I need. I just need to sift through it, extract the relevant information, and put it in report from for the client. It shouldn’t take me more than another two days.
Yoland：我已经得到了所需的大部分数据，现在只需要筛选数据，从中提炼出相关的信息，然后写入给客户的报告里。两天之内就能完成了。
Cecil：Good work. Duncan, how are you doing with the competitor analysis? Are you making progress?
Cecil：干得好。邓肯，竞争对手分析，你做得怎么样了？ 有什么进展吗？
Duncan：Mueller Manufacturing has three major competitors. So far I’ve completed an analysis of two of them，but I’m having trouble gathering information for the third.
Duncan：米勒制造公司的主要竞争对手有三家。到目前为止，我已经完成对其中两家的分析，可是在收集第三家的信息时却遇到了困难。
Cecil: I’ll see if I can get one of the interns to help you with that. Mario, you’re working on the consumer analysis，right？ Are you on schedule？
Cecil：我看看能不能调一个实习生来帮你。马里奥，你在做客户分析，对吗？按进度完成了吗？
Mario：More or less. I’ve almost finished the demographic research and analysis. After that, I can conduct qualitative research of the identified target market.
Mario：差不多了。人群统计研究和分析工作，我已经完成了大部分了。然后我会对已经确定的目标市场作定性研究。
Cecil： Great. It sounds like we’ll be able to meet the client’s deadline. Keep up the good work, everyone.
Cecil：太好了，根据大家所说的情况，我们能够按照客户给出的期限完成任务。大家再接再厉。
Dialogue 2:
Clint：Okay, listen up everyone. Our client, Irwin Industries, has asked us if we can finish the project a bit earlier.
Clint: 好了，大家请注意。我们的客户欧文工业公司问我们是否能早一点完成项目。
Xavier：How much earlier?
Xavier：提前多久？
Clint： The original deadline was August 8th ， but they called this morning and asked if it’s possible to finish it by the end of July.
Clint：原来的期限是八月八日，可是今早他们打电话来，问能不能在七月底完成。
Johnny：That’s more than a week earlier!
Johnny：那要提前一个星期啊。
Clint：I know, I know. But they’re one of our best clients，and I don’t want to disappoint them. So I’m going to ask you all to step up your pace, and if necessary, even put it an hour or two of overtime each day. You’ll be well compensated for your efforts. Melanie, you put together the original project timeline, right?
Clint：我知道，我知道。可是他们是我们最重要的客人之一，我不想让他们失望。所以我要让你们加快速度，如果必要的话，你们甚至还得每天加一两个小时的班。你们的努力会得到回报的。梅勒妮，原来的项目进度时间表是你做的，对吧？
Melanie：Yes, I have it right here.
Melanie：是的，时间表我带着呢。
Clint：I want you to modify it based on the new deadline, and email it to everyone as soon as you get it done.
Clint：我想让你按照新的期限修改时间表，你一改好，就给每个人发邮件。
Melanie：No problem.
Melanie： 没问题。
Business Words：
Proponent n 支持者，建议者；
Proponents of such legislation are especially concerned that these ads may cause children to develop unhealthy patterns of consumption.
这种立法的倡导者尤其担心这些广告可能会导致儿童产生不健康的消费模式。
Proprietor n 所有人，业主；
He was the sole proprietor, but relinquished control when he went public.
他是唯一的业主，但是上市后他放弃了控制权。
Protocol n 条约草案，议定书；
The competitor has just broken our long-standing protocol of not encroaching on each other’s territory.
对手破坏了我们长期坚持的不侵犯他国领土的议定。
4．Provided conj 如果，在….条件下…
The takeover looks good, provided it stands up to the due diligence examination.
如果能够经得起严格的审查，那么这次收购应该不错。
5. query n /v 疑问，询问；
Good customer service involves providing prompt and accurate answers, to any query.
良好的售后服务包括对顾客提出的任何疑问做出及时准确的回答。
6. radical adj 全新的，激进的；
Unfortunately, radical ideas have been classified as anything that doesn’t conform to the accepted norms.
不幸的是，这些激进的想法总是被看作违背道德规范。
7. ratify v 正式批准；
The sales manager was asked to ratify all the expense claims of the sales people.
销售部主任被要求正式批准所有销售人员的经费。
