What were last year's figures? Hm. Not too good, I see—sales in the US went down, but it looks as though they were more or less constant in Asia.
去年的数据怎么样？不是很好—美国销量下滑，但是亚洲销量似乎或多或少维持稳定。
However, the worldwide market's pretty buoyant at the moment, forecasts do seem more optimistic,
但现在全球市场都在上涨，预测确实更加乐观，
and our investment looks sound, so yeah, let's go along with that—we'll allocate $400,000 for the first quarter.
我们的投资看起来很健全，所以没错，让我们遵从这种趋势—第一季度，我们将拨出40万美元。
That's an eight-per-cent increase on last year—we should be able to keep within that.
比去年增加8%—我们应该能够保持在这个数字之内。