帕卡, 你接下來在美國有什么計劃嗎?
Tomorrow I will visit one customer in San Jose.
明天我會去圣何塞見一個客戶。
After that meeting, I fly to Phoenix for another meeting.
然后我要飛到菲尼克斯城開另一個會議…
I will fly back to San Francisco on the following day.
第二天我會飛回舊金山。
When are you going back to Japan?
你什么時候回日本呢?
I will leave the US on Friday.
星期五我會離開美國。
Wow, you have a pretty tight schedule!
哇,你的日程安排的真滿!
Every time I come to the US, the schedule is always very tight.
每次我來美國,日程總是安排的很滿。
Business trips are very tiring, because we schedule so many meetings.
商業(yè)外出很累,因為我們安排了很多的會議。
To cut costs, we are reducing the number of business trips company-wide.
為了減少支出,我們整個公司正在減少商業(yè)外出的次數(shù)。
It's the same here.
這里也一樣。
We're doing many more conference calls now.
現(xiàn)在我們更傾向于開通話會議。
Recently, we got an advanced video conference system.
最近,我們安裝了一套先進的錄像會議系統(tǒng)。
It was very expensive, but it could save a lot of money, compared with travel costs.
這個系統(tǒng)很貴,但是和旅行費用相比,它將會節(jié)省很多錢。
Less tiring too!
也不那么累!