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Ann is overwhelmed and talking to her colleague about her problems.
安覺得壓力過大,正在向同事談論她的難處。

G: How are you doing, Ann?
妳還好嗎,安?

A: Honestly, I'm at the end of my rope.
老實講,我快不行了。

G: Is the project getting to you?
這專案讓妳很煩惱嗎?

A: Yes, but it shouldn't be! We've done other projects like this before and they went fine. I just feel like everything is piling up right now. ...

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Ann, Katharine, George, Jacob, and Caroline are discussing the distribution of work for the project.
安、凱薩琳、喬治、雅各還有卡洛琳正在討論案子的工作分配。

C: Alright, let's look at the new work plan for the project. Ann and George, you'll be doing the data collection at the first site. You'll also both be doing the analysis. When you get back to the office, though, George, you will write up the rep ...

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Jacob talks to Katharine about her mistake.
雅各與凱薩琳談論她的錯誤。

J: Hi, Katharine. I wanted to talk to you about this research for the website. You did a great job getting a lot of information, and I appreciate the accessible format you put it into. There's one problem, though. I think somewhere you must have misread the amount we'd budgeted for designers.
凱薩琳,我要跟妳談談有關這網站的調查。蒐集資訊 ...

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Joyce discovers that Katharine has made a mistake in her research.
喬伊絲發現凱薩琳的調查中有個錯誤。

J: Hi, Jacob. I've been going over some of Katharine's reseach for the website proposal, and I need to talk to you about something.
雅各,我看了一下凱薩琳針對網頁提案所做的調查,我需要與你談談。

J: What is it?
什麼事?

J: It looks like most of the website designers she's listed are out of our price range. I ...

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Ann, George, and Katharine are discussing problems they are having with the new project leader, Caroline.
安、喬治與凱薩琳正在討論他們和新的專案負責人卡洛琳之間的問題。

A: I think we need to talk to Caroline about our problems with her before we go to Jacob.
去向雅各報告之前,我認為我們應先向卡洛琳說明我們的問題。 

K: Agreed. We shouldn't ambush her. I think Caroline can do a good job—she's just ...

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Jared, in the product development department, presents a new product to shareholders with a slide show.
在產品開發部門的傑瑞德,正用簡報向股東們介紹新產品。

J: As you all know, our Ethersole athletic shoe has been a huge hit. We believe our new children's line, with its first design, the Etherkid, will help us capitalize on that success. As you can see from this slide, the Etherkid is based on the Ethersole ...

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Jacob is meeting with Joyce and the other managers to discuss new business.
雅各正與喬伊絲和其他經理們討論新的業務。

J: And that's the rundown on our current projects. Now for the new ideas.
這就是我們目前案子的概要。現在,輪到大家說說新想法了。

J: I've got a proposal to make regarding our department's website. For all intents and purposes, we don't have a website, do we? Our page on the company's main site ...