外貿英語話題王(MP3+中英字幕) 第91期:投資場所

Outlet for investment

投資場所

A:Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I know that for decades we focus a lot on big businesses. But learning from your comments on the service industry and its growth-in fact. I know that small businesses have been doing the hiring when we see the big headlines of job losses here and there. The state of the international outlook, where are we going?

A:先生，女士，早上好。我知道幾十年來我們更多關注的是大公司。但是實際上，從你們對服務行業及其發展的評論上看，雖然失業狀況比較普遍，小公司卻一直在招聘人員。湯姆，你認爲就目前經濟狀況及國際形勢而言，我們的發 展趨勢會怎樣？

B:'s a very good question. My worry about the economy is we're just sitting around waiting to get going. Wait and see. And you can't blame the boards of directors and the CEOs because it's not been a fertile environment. but it is a great time to get going and get on with making some significant investments.

B:嗯，這是個很好的問題。我對經濟的擔心是我們只是坐在這裏觀望。你不能因爲目前不成熟的環境而責備董事會和總裁。但是，我們必須意識到目前是行動起來進行大規模投資的！

A:ents on that?

A:比爾，你的觀點呢？

B:Tom is right. Exports have got to grow if we're going to get this economy going. We are importing a lot more than we're exporting. And everybody in this room is interested in doing more of that.

B:我同意湯姆的觀點。如果我們能使經濟運轉起來，出口就會增長。我們的進口遠遠超出出口。這個房間的每個人都想在這個方面做出更多努力。

B:You know, a Billion dollars worth of exports creates 20, 000 American jobs.

B你知道，價值10億美元的出口可爲美國人提的機構供20，000個就業機會。

A:David, how about you, your joint venture between two really big financial powerhouses focusing on small-to-medium-size businesses in the Midwest and west, how does globalization affect those businesses?

A:大衛，你呢？你在中兩部和西部的兩大財團集中發展中、小規模的公司，這兩大財團的合資進展如何？經濟全球化對這些公司產生了什麼影響？

B: Well, whether it is on the import side or the export side, almost every small business has been involved with globalization, in one form or another. So, as the market, as competition comes, the ability to do business globally is very important. It's very critical for us.

B:嗯，不管進口還是出口，幾乎每一個小公司都以某種形式捲入經濟全球化的浪潮中。所以，隨着市場競爭的加劇，經濟全球化的能力就顯得非常重要。這對我們來說非常關鍵。

A: Well. Nat. What's your insight into outside competition?

A:嗯，奈特，你對外部競爭持什麼觀點？

B:Well, you see, we have been blessed in this country with a large marketplace for anything. But the problem of the globalization is if you do not take that business outside the shores somebody else will come and eat your marketplace. So, for us, it is just a question of where we decide to compete, within the shores of this country or somewhere else outside and the farther we go outside, the better off we are in protecting our home base. My fear is not from our traditional competition. Western Europe and Japan a and India. And we are gearing up to compete with them today by establishing bases in those countries to service our products to sell in those countries today. That's the only way I know I can protect my little base from being eroded by overseas competition. Thanks.

B:嗯，你知道，我們在這個國家一直享有巨大的市場。但是經濟全球化的問題在於，如果你不把業務擴展到海外，其他人就會進入，吞噬你的市場。所以，對我們而言，問題不在於在哪兒競爭，在國內還是國外都不重要。問題在於我們走得越遠，我們就能更好的保護我們在本國的市場。我的擔心不是來自傳統的競爭對 手——西歐和日本，而是中國和印度。我們正在通過在那些國家建立子公司來提高競爭力,以促進我們的產品在這些國家的銷售。這是我所知道的保護我的市場不被海外競爭侵蝕的唯一方法。謝謝。

A:Bill. you mentioned the fact that tourism, being the number two industry in the world, does not have any senior administration that focuses strictly on that. What do you think the U. S. Government can do to help small businesses and increase exports?

A:比爾，你提到旅遊業雖然是世界上第二大產業，但是卻沒有引起高級管理部門的足夠重視。你認爲美國政府如何能夠幫助小公司並增加出口？

B:Well.l think opening new markets is very important. Look what happened in China. I mean, China is probably the hottest growth market in the world. 40 t0 50 million Chinese tourists left China last year and went abroad. Five years ago, this was just not even thought about. So, here the U. S. Government has been making a tremendous effort. with the World Trade Organization, in opening up China. If you're going to open up a market. Let's go open up the biggest one in the world. I think that kind of thing is the thing the federal government can continue to push.

B:嗯。我認爲開拓新市場非常重要。可以看中國的情況。中國可能是世界上最具發展潛力的市場。去年四到五千萬中國遊客出國旅遊。五年前，這是不可能發生的事情所以美國政府和世貿組織正在一起開闢中國市場。如果你想開闢市場，就要開闢世界上最大的市場，這是聯邦政府應該繼續推動的事情。

A:Well,that's got to be the last word on it. Thank you very much.

A:嗯，就以你的話作爲結束。非常感謝。