Recording 48
录音48
You will hear a hotel manager talking to her staff about the arrangement of the event to be hold at the weekend.
你将听到一段录音，内容为一位酒店经理向员工讲解下周活动的安排。
First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
首先，你有些时间看看第十一题至第十五题。
Good morning, everyone. I hope you're all feeling OK after the activities of the last week or so.
大家早上好，但愿在经历了上周这么多活动以后，你们感觉还行。
I know you've all been working very hard recently and we've been exceptionally busy, especially with the wedding last weekend and the trade fair straight after that.
我明白大家最近都非常努力工作，我们最近也额外忙碌，特别是上周办的婚礼和之后的贸易展销会。
And now we have only three days to prepare for the birthday party this weekend.
现在我们只有三天时间来准备周末的生日派对了。
The events recently have gone extremely well and the hotel is beginning to get a very good reputation, so we need to keep it up.
最近举办的活动都非常顺利，酒店的好名声刚传出去，所以我们要保持好势头。
At the moment, we don't have exact numbers of guests, and though we usually only cater for groups of less than fifty, we will have quite a few more than that.
目前我们还没得到确切的来宾人数，尽管我们通常只招待五十人以下的团体，我们这次将迎来更多客人。
So, as I said, not sure of numbers, but of course we won't go over the maximum of 100.
正如我所说的，人数未知，但肯定不会超过最多一百人的上限。
But it's likely that we will need all of you to work this weekend, so if any of you can't, please let me know as soon as possible.
但极有可能我们需要你们全体都在周末上班，所以假如有人不能来，请尽快告知我。
Right, so what time will the event start? Well, the invitation says guests should arrive between 7:30 and 7:45, but our experience is that there are always a few who like to arrive early, so we'll expect the first people at 7:15.
好了，活动什么时候开始？邀请函上写着，客人们应在7:30至7:45到场，但根据我们的经验，总会有些人喜欢提前到，所以我们预计7:15就会陆续有人来了。
As the numbers are quite large, this will certainly be the case.
由于人数较多，肯定会发生这种情况。
Food will be served at around 8:30 and then, depending on how long the meal takes, the entertainment will start about two hours later.
在约8:30会开始提供食物，接着得看用餐时间持续多久，娱乐项目会在大概2小时后开始。
Now for this, we were expecting a live band for the occasion which is always fun, but apparently this has been cancelled due to illness. So, the hosts know someone who is a comedian who will be replacing the band.
说到这，我们本为活动订了一支乐队来作现场表演（这总是非常有趣的），但很明显，这被取消了，因为乐队成员生病了。所以，会有主办方认识的某位喜剧演员来取代乐队。
We had hoped that the resident magician who worked here through the summer would be able to help out but they weren't keen on that idea.
我们本来希望夏天曾在这儿工作的本地魔术师能来帮忙，但他们没多大兴趣。
Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you will have some time to look at the questions 16 to 20.
在你听取剩下的对话内容之前，你有些时间看看第十六题至第二十题。