(单词翻译:单击)
I work for a foreign company which moved a factory here from another country fairly recently.
我为一家外国公司工作,公司最近将一家工厂从这里搬到了另一个国家 。
The size of the available site was important, but it was the package of state aid which determined where the factory ended up.
可用地址的规模很重要,但是是一揽子国家补助最终决定工厂的地址 。
There was a lot of competition to construct it, and in the end, the contract went to a consortium,
建造中有很多竞争,最终,把合同交给了一个商社型集团
but they had all sorts of problems, financial ones mostly, and there was a lot of bickering between the companies involved.
但是他们有各种问题,大部分是财务问题,参与公司之间存在很多争论 。
The upshot of it all was that the move was terribly overdue. Luckily, there was a penalty clause in the contract,
争论的结果是搬迁严重超期了 。幸运的是,合同中有一条违约罚金条款,
so we didn't lose as much money as we would have done otherwise, but a lot of the people we'd offered jobs to went elsewhere.
所以我们没有损失太过钱,但我们的很多雇员去了其他公司 。