商務(wù)英語播客第140課:開會暢所欲言(3)
This is the third and final part of our Business EnglishPod series on getting your ideas across in meetings.
這是有關(guān)開會時暢所欲言的英語播客的最后一個部分。
Meetings are a great opportunity to get your ideas across and influence other people. But doing that is no easy task. You need the right combination oftact, frankness, confidence, and humility. And you need some effective language techniques to manage that combination.
開會是一個表達(dá)自己觀點和影響到別人的絕好機(jī)會。但是做起來可不容易。你需要機(jī)智，坦白，自信和謙虛，并且你需要用一些語言技巧去結(jié)合這些要素。
In today's lesson, we're going to look at several advanced techniques for expressing your ideas and commenting on other people's opinions. These include leading into opinions, highlighting consequences, and redirecting a discussion. A lot of these techniques revolve around agreeing and disagreeing. We've looked at many of these in the first two parts, and today we'll continue by learning about strongly agreeing and disagreeing with negative questions.
在今天這一課中，我們將看到幾個高級的技巧去表達(dá)你的觀點和對別人的觀點進(jìn)行評論。這些技巧中有許多是和同意和反對有關(guān)的。我們將能在前兩個部分聽到，今天我們將繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)對于消極的問題做出的強(qiáng)烈的同意很反對的表達(dá)。
We've been listening to a dialog among four managers who have to find ways of reducing travel and transportation benefits by 15%. They are continuing their debate on how best to achievethis goal. Let's listen as the chairperson Alison leads the discussion with Stewart, Pat, and Nate.
我們已經(jīng)聽到了四個經(jīng)理間關(guān)于減少15%旅行和交通津貼的對話，他們將繼續(xù)討論如何最好地實施這個目標(biāo)。讓我們聽主持人艾莉森如何和斯圖爾特，帕特和納特進(jìn)行討論的。
Listening Questions
1. What idea does Pat believe is easier to sell to employees?
2. What is Stewart's concern about Pat's idea?
3. What does Alison suggest doing?
