地道美語聽力播客961：設計生產線

Thomas: What do you think of my creations?

托馬斯：你覺得我的作品怎么樣?

Celeste: These are…interesting?

塞萊斯特：他們……很有趣。

Thomas: They’re part of my new product line to be sold under my own label.

托馬斯：這是要出售的生產線的一部分，用的是我自己的商標。

Celeste: Really?

塞萊斯特：真的嗎?

Thomas: Yeah, I’m jumping in with both feet. Everybody advised me to get my feet wet by licensing a collection, but I don’t want to sell under someone else’s brand.

托馬斯：是的，我毫不猶豫的做了。大家都建議我先從授權做起，試試水，但是我不想用別人的牌子，賣別人的產品。

Celeste: I thought you started all this by doing custom work.

塞萊斯特：我以為你是從做定做開始的。

Thomas: I did, but I’m ready to produce an entire line I’ve designed according to my vision, not work to a client’s specs.

托馬斯：是的，但是我已經準備好做一整條生產線了，按照我自己的標準設計的，而不是顧客的標準。

Celeste: I can understand that. Will you be selling to trade or retail customers?

塞萊斯特：我能明白，你要批發(fā)還是零售?

Thomas: Retail. I plan to have showrooms in every major city. See? This is a sample of our product catalog.

托馬斯：零售，我計劃在各大城市都置辦好陳列室，明白嗎?就是我們所有產品的樣品展示。

Celeste: I see. Your products look high-end, but they’re intended for the mass market.

塞萊斯特：我明白。你的產品看起來挺高端的，可是你卻把它們投向大眾市場。

Thomas: That’s right. Do you want to take home a sample?

托馬斯：是的，沒錯。你要帶個樣品回去嗎?

Celeste: Um, I guess so. I’d never considered using anything like that.

塞萊斯特：恩，好。我從沒想過可以用到這么高檔的東西。

Thomas: Once you sit on a designer toilet seat, you’ll never go back!

托馬斯：一旦你用過之后，你就迷上它了。