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1 .Listen to a conversation between a student and a university print shop employee.

听一段学生和大学印刷店店员的对话

1 .Hi, I saw your ad in the campus newspaper.

你好，我看到你在校园报纸上的广告了。

1 .Oh. We don't have any job openings right now.

噢，我们现在已经没有空缺职位了。

1 .Oh no. I meant the other ad about the services you provide for students.

不，不是，我指的是另外一则广告，关于你们提供的服务。

2 .You see, I have been working at the campus tutoring center as a maths tutor.

我的意思是，我一直在校园家教中心做数学家教

3 .But things have changed, including my schedule.

但是现在情况有变，尤其是我的日程安排

4 .And now I want to start doing tutoring work independently.

现在我开始独立的做家教了。

5 .But in order to, basically, start my own business, I need to get the word out.

也就是说开始自己的业务，我需要着手做一些工作了。

1 .Ok.

好的

1 .I was thinking I should get something printed up that I can hand out to people.

我想我应该印一些东西能让人们知道。

1 .Ah. Well, actually, I just printed up some great-looking flyers for someone doing the same thing.

噢，事实上我们刚刚给和你一样需求的人印了一些 漂亮的传单

1 .Flyers. Yeah, that's an idea.

传单，哦，是个办法

2 .I guess then I could post them around campus.

我想印出来我就可以把他们贴在校园里

1 .Yeah. And you can hand them out too.

没错，你也可以把他们分发出去。

2 .But, oh, you know what?

但是你知道吗，

3 .I did something really neat for someone last week.

上周我们做了一个很棒的东西

4 .She didn't want to go the traditional route, you know, business cards, flyers, so we customized pencils for her.

一个女孩她不想走传统路线，你知道的就像名片，传单之类，我们就给它定制了一种铅笔。

1 .Pencils?

铅笔？

1 .Yeah. You know, a little message printed on the pencil.

是的，你知道，少量的信息印刷在铅笔上

1 .Oh, that's cool.

哇，好酷诶

1 .Yeah. But you should know, it's not our cheapest option.

是的，但是你知道，这不是我们最便宜的选项

2 .Oh, and you know those little sticky notes?

哦，你知道那些小小的便利贴吗

1 .You do those too.

你还做这个

1 .Well, we did once.

是的，我们曾经做过一次

2 .I think those bright pieces of paper would be real attention getters.

我认为这些小纸片确实会成为吸引注意力的好手

3 .You know, students use them all the time, so they should be good for business.

你知道，学生们总是用它，所以他很有利于生意

4 .I don't know why we haven't done more.

我不知道为什么我们没有做更多

1 .Wow.

哇哦

1 .So you've got some options.

你还有一些备选

1 .Right. Well, what about business cards?

好吧，额，名片怎么样

2 .My friend has these business cards, she does tutoring too.

我的朋友做过，她也做家教

3 .And she got them at this place in town, but they were kind of expensive.

在镇上做的不过有点贵

1 .For business card?

名片？

2 .Well, I don't know what your friend paid, but we could do something real simple and it wouldn't be much.

嗯，我不知道你朋友花多少钱。但是，我们可以做一些简单的，不会太贵

3 .Like for a batch of 250 for one of our standard designs, 20 dollars maybe.

像这样一批250张的设计标 准，可能要20美元。

1 .20 dollars sounds okay.

20美元还比较合理

1 .Now, there are some other choices that will affect the cost.

有一些因素会影响成本

2 .You know, like different background patterns, using colour ink, that sort of thing.

比如不同的背景模式，使用彩色墨水诸如此类的

3 .And it also depends on how many words you want to include.

成本也取决于你印多少字。

1 .Ok. Well, I know what I want them to say.

好的，我知道我想印什么，

2 .But I am just thinking, I kind of like that pencil idea.

但是我只是在考虑，我还是蛮喜欢铅笔的想法

1 .Yeah. I thought it was neat.

是的，我也认为那是不错的选择，

2 .Now, of course you can only fit your name and phone number, and like, in your case, maths tutoring on it.

当然了你也只能印下你的姓名和电话号码，以及根据你的情况写上数学辅导。

1 .Right. Well, I could custom design the business cards though right?

是的，我可以定制名片，对吗？

2 .That's what my friend did.

我朋友就是这么做的，

3 .She said she designed them at the computer right there at the print shop.

，她说，她在打印店的电脑上设计的。

1 .Well, you can do that here, too.

好的，你可以在这里设计，

2 .But a custom design would be a bigger investment for your business than one of our standard designs.

但是定制设计比标准设计对于你来说是更大的投资。

1 .Well, I don't know.

好吧，我还没想好

2 .I am interested in business cards, so can I look at the standard design?

我对商业名片感兴趣，我可以看看标准设计吗？