(单词翻译:单击)
Speaker One
第一位发言人。
Man：It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, and it has paid off in some ways. Certainly, we did need to make savings in order to compete with other companies. We were paying out far too much on basic services. It just wasn't allowing for realistic profit margins. Well, the new premises are attractive. The whole place looks much smarter, more in line with the image we’re looking to project.
男子：在当时，这似乎是一件正确的事情，并且它在某些方面已经取得了成功。当然，为了和其他公司竞争，我们确实得节省开支。我们在基本服务上花的钱太多了，没有考虑到实际的利润率。新的经营场所很吸引人。整个地方看起来更漂亮了，更符合我们想要展现的景象。
And there's no problem, yet, with getting the customers in. It's pretty busy, in fact. The advertising does seem to be helping to keep the products moving. But in terms of staffing, while there's no problem recruiting them round here, it is proving tricky to get their skills up to standard. We've just too busy dealing with the customers to have time to work on that.
然而，把顾客吸引进来没什么问题，实际上，那里很忙。广告似乎帮助维持了产品的运转。但是，在人员配备方面，尽管在这里招募不成问题，但是事实证明，要让他们的技能合乎标准是件棘手的事情。我们只是太忙于应付客户了，而没有时间提升他们的技能。
