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三角洲通訊公司老板John Smith到銀行申請貸款，接待他的是銀行負(fù)責(zé)人Ted Johnson。

Ted Johnson: Hello, Mr. Smith. Thanks for stopping by.

Smith: Hello, and call me John.

Ted: Sure...but only if you call me Ted.

J: Done.

T: So you are the CEO of Delta Communications. What exactly does your firm make?

J: We are the leading supplier of walkie-talkie radios and other shortwave communication devices.

John Smith和Ted Johnson相互問候，彼此堅持要對方用first name稱呼自己，以便拉近距離，不會顯得太客氣。史密斯是三角洲通訊公司的CEO, Chief Executive Officer，首席執(zhí)行官，這家公司主要生產(chǎn)對講機(jī)等短波通訊工具。walkie-talkie，是中文里說的對講機(jī)。

T: Ah...I see. How's business these days?

J: Actually, not bad. We landed a couple of major contracts in Southeast Asia recently and in spite of the recession, we're humming along quite nicely.

T: That's good to hear. It's been a rough couple of years. I've had to deny hundreds of loan applications and we've had to take legal action to recover loans as well.

史密斯說，他們公司的業(yè)務(wù)沒有受到經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)的影響，剛在東南亞簽了幾個重要合同。 We're humming along quite nicely，生意蒸蒸日上，hum is spelled h-u-m, hum，有忙忙碌碌的意思。Ted則抱怨說，最近兩年貸款很不好做 It's been a rough couple of years，rough, r-o-u-g-h, rough，在這里是困難的意思。不僅很多貸款申請不符合標(biāo)準(zhǔn)被退回，而且還不得不采取法律手段追繳貸款。

J: That sounds tough.

T: It is! No one wants to be the bad guy and people have a stereotype of bankers as unfeeling and cruel. But contracts are contracts and I have to run my business, right?

J: Yeah. You know what they say: business is business - it's not personal.

T: Well, I do sympathize with people's difficulties. But there's really nothing I can do.

Ted說，No one wants to be the bad guy，誰都不想當(dāng)惡人，大家對銀行家有成見，成見stereotype is spelled s-t-e-r-e-o-t-y-p-e, stereotype，普遍認(rèn)為銀行家冷血，不盡人情unfeeling and cruel，但是做生意是為了賺錢，contracts are contracts合同就是合同，或者說，business is business. It's not personal. 這是做生意，不是針對任何人。Ted同時也表示，他很理解和同情大家的難處，但又沒有辦法。這里用的sympathize is spelled s-y-m-p-a-t-h-i-z-e, sympathize，是同情。