(单词翻译:单击)
Deliveries to markets outside Europe were twelve percent up on the previous year, largely due to economic conditions outside our control.
欧洲之外市场的运输比去年增长12%,主要是因为经济情况不在我们控制之内 。
Operating costs, we are pleased to report, were two per cent lower than in the previous year, due mainly to reduced employment costs,
我们很高兴的告诉大家,运营成本比去年降低2%,主要是因为雇工成本减少了,
as the workforce was cut from fifty-two thousand to fifty thousand.
员工从52000人减少到了50000人 。
Now to the less good news: there have been difficulties with our export trade over the last year.
不好的消息是:去年,我们的出口贸易遇到困难 。
The main culprit here has been the strong pound, which has reduced profits by approximately five hundred million pounds.
罪魁祸首是强劲的英镑将利润减少了约五亿英镑 。
Secondly, S. B. Steel, our fifty-one-per-cent-owned German stainless-steel subsidiary, continued to be badly affected by depressed selling prices.
第二,我们占股51%的德国不锈钢子公司S. B. Steel继续受到销售价格低迷的不良影响 。
Then Huntingdon's, our twenty-five-per-cent-owned joint venture in the USA, encountered technical problems during the year,
我们占股25%的美国合资公司Huntingdon's今年遭遇了技术问题,
which mean that it is unlikely to resume operating at capacity again until late this year.
这意味着要到今年年末它才能恢复最大功率的运营 。