机场休息室可以过夜吗 原汁原味商务英语播客 第46课:休息室闲谈(1)

原汁原味商务英语播客 第46课:休息室闲谈(1)  

This Business English Podcast lesson is the first in an ongoing series where we’ll listen in on some typical chitchat around the office water cooler. You’ll find a water cooler in offices around the world – usually in the break room where employees gather to drink a cup of coffee or tea and take a rest from work.
这节商务英语播客是有关在饮水冷却器旁进行闲谈的课程，全世界的办公楼里都有饮水冷却器——通常安放在员工的休息室中，在那里大家能聚起来喝杯咖啡或喝茶，从紧张的工作中休息一下。
And during these breaks
you might meet with a colleague and exchange words about life
your jobs
your pany
sports
politics or whatever. So “water cooler chichat” has e to refer to all types of informal munication that take place at the office.
休息中，你可能会遇到同事，并谈论生活，工作，公司，运动，政治和其他话题。所以“饮水冷却器旁的闲谈”现在泛指在办公室中的各种非正式交流。
We’ll be listening in on Jan and Jen
who work in the same office of Ambient
an American teles pany
gossiping around the water cooler. They are discussing the latest industry news: Accent
a major European player in the market
has just announced the takeover or buy out of Ambient’s main petitor
TelStar.
我们会听到Jan和Jen，同在一家美国电信产业公司Ambient工作，他们在休息室闲谈。他们正在谈论最新的工业新闻:市场中一家主要的欧洲竞争对手Accent刚刚宣布接受或买断Ambient的主要竞争对手TelStar。

Listening Quiz:
1) Do Jan and Jen think Accent’s takeover of TelStar was a good idea?
2) Why was there a delay in the takeover?