职场英语学习：如何解释并消除误会
BBC English at Work Episode 19: The Open Window Language used to explain a misunderstanding
BBC白遥工作英语：敞开的窗户，如何解释误会Narrator: Hello, 遥可真是有点儿冷啊！
Anna: Hi Denise!
Denise: Good morning Anna.
Anna: Brrr.
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It’s so cold in here.
Denise: The window was left open overnight.
Anna: My papers have been blown everywhere.
Denise: Mine too!
Tom was the last one here last night – it must've been him who left the window open.
Anna: Brrr.
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Right then, to work!
Oh, there's a note from Paul, it must've fallen off my desk: 'I would like your ideas on our stock management system for our new laser-curve fruit range, so we know we can keep up with demand.
Please write me a couple of pages of suggestions and leave it on my desk.
I'll be back this afternoon.
' Wow!
I have to come up with ideas for a stock management system!
Gosh, where do I begin?
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Tom: Good morning.
Anna: Morning!
Tom: Hey, my certificate for Plastic Pear Salesman of the Year is on the floor!
Anna: Right.
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stock management systems.
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stock-up on your laser-curved lemons … My first idea is to calculate the total….
Later…Narrator: Anna 写完了她的报告，放在了Paul 的办公桌上，可是没这么简单。
Er, Anna 这有 点儿问题。
Anna: Oh?
Narrator: 我来教你几个短语，你可以向别人解释出了错儿。
I think there's been a misunderstanding.
意思是我想这里可能有点误会。
OR: There's been a bit of a mix-up.
这出了点儿错。
Anna: But what misunderstanding?
What mix-up?
Narrator: 你还可以说： Let me explain what happened, 让我解释一下发生了什么事情。
Anna: ButPaul: Ah, good afternoon everyone.
All: Hello.
Paul: Tom, this is an excellent piece of work!
Tom: Sorry?
Paul: These are by far the best ideas you've ever had.
Tom: I don't understand.
Paul: Our stock management system!
Tom: Can I see?
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But, that's not mine.
Paul: Eh?
Anna: I think there's been a misunderstanding.
I did it.
Paul+Tom: You?
Anna: I got your note Paul, here.
Paul: No, no, that note was for Tom.
Anna: Oh, then there's been a bit of a mix up.
Tom: Did you take that note from my desk?
Anna: No, no!
Tom: I suppose you threw my pear salesman certificate on the floor at the same time too!
Anna: I didn’t!
Let me explain.
The wind must have blown the note for Tom under my desk.
Denise: Tom left the window open overnight.
Our papers were blown all over the place.
Paul: I see, well, golly gosh.
In that case, well done, Anna!
Excellent work, even though you weren't meant to do it.
And Tom, your ideas are still welcome of course.
Thanks.
Anna: Sorry Tom.
Tom: What?
Oh, I'm not bothered.
I've still got some great ideas in my head anyway.
Narrator: Yeah, right!
让Tom 自己去琢磨他的伟大计划吧。
我们来看看 Anna 刚才用到了那 些短语来解释误会。
I think there's been a misunderstanding.
There's been a bit of a mix-up.
Let me explain what happened.
看来，这个错竟然还让Anna 有遥遥了一下她的能力，Paul 对她的能力很佩服。
说不定会有新的遥呢．好了，我们下次节目再续！
LISTENING CHALLENGE 听力挑战Tom在地上找到了他的一份证书，是什么证书呢？
答案：塑料梨子全年较佳销遥员