原汁原味商務英語播客 第34課:開始談話

Today’s Business English Pod lesson is the first in a two-part series on the basics of social English: starting a conversation, keeping it going, and finishing it appropriately. Successful conversation is an important part of networking – the skill of building up a network of contacts and relationships.
今天的商務英語播客是2節課中的第一節，將會學到基礎的社交英語：開始對話，並讓對話保持下去，以及恰當地結束對話。成功的對話是人際網中重要的一環——建立聯繫和關係的技巧。

In this lesson, you’ll be learning skills and language for starting and finishing a conversation appropriately. In the next, you’ll practice how to keep a conversation going.
在今天的課中，你會聽到用來開始和恰當結束對話的技巧和語言。下一節，你將學會如何將對話進行下去。

The conversations take place at the Asia-Pacific HR conference for Multi-Fresh, a major global producer of health beverages. A beverage is a drink.
對話發生在亞太人力資源大會上針對 Multi-Fresh的談話，一家全球生產全球健康飲料的廠家。

You’ll hear two dialogues. In the first, Penny, an HR officer from Malaysia, strikes up a conversation with George, the Asia-Pacific learning and development manager. “To strike up a conversation” means to start a conversation, usually with someone you don’t know too well.
你將聽到2部分談話，第一部分，來自馬來西亞的人事主管開始和亞太學習和發展部的經理George談話。

In the second dialogue, Pat, an HR officer from Australia, then tries his best to strike up a conversation with George.
第2部分談話中，來自澳大利亞的人事主管Pat盡全力和George開始談話。