天天商务英语学习（中高级）2007－9－21 MP3下载
[table=98%][tr][td=1,1,639]天天商务词汇 [/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td=1,1,459][font=Bookman Old Style][b]assess sth. (verb)[/b] 对某事物进行评估[/font][/td][td=1,1,179][align=center][url=http://www.youmars.com/kj/m/07ttxx/20070921%20assess%20sth.%20(verb).mp3][color=#0000ff][/color][/url] [/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td=1,1,131][align=center]解释[/align][/td][td=1,1,507][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]to make a judgement about the quality, nature or size of sth.[/size][/font][/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td=1,1,131][align=center]例句[/align][/td][td=1,1,507][align=center][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]The extent of the damage is hard to assess at the moment. We'll need to wait for more data.[/size][/font][/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td]天天商务报道 [/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td=1,1,464][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]The boss isn't in today[/b][/size][/font][font=Bookman Old Style]老板今天不在[/font][/td][td=1,1,174][align=center][url=http://www.youmars.com/kj/m/07ttxx/20070921%20The%20boss%20isn%27t%20in%20today.mp3][color=#0000ff][/color][/url] [/align][/td][/tr][/table][table=98%][tr][td][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][/size][/font][font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]It's important in business to keep up appearances. But what if your office was all appearances? As in, more like a movie set with extras posing as your staff? Cash Peters reports on the growing trend of virtual offices. [/size][/font]
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[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]KAI RYSSDAL: [/b]It's important in business to keep up appearances. You want your office to be appealing, your office staff professional and courteous. But appearances can be deceiving. When it's not actually your office, but more like a movie set. Complete with extras trotted out when necessary to give customers the illusion of a real place of business? Cash Peters tells us virtual offices are a growing trend.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]RECEPTIONIST: [/b]Hello.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]CASH PETERS:[/b] Hi. D'you remember, years ago, how everybody had a P.O. box? Not now, though. That's so passe. Now the thing to have is a virtual office, which is even better than a P.O. box because a virtual office doesn't even exist. How cool is that?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Elisabeth Schwartze runs Access Office in Beverly Hills, and she has a space that 180 businesses worldwide treat as their space too.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Elisabeth Schwartze: [/b]All their calls come in. We transfer them back out to them. Their mail is delivered here and we forward it on too.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Her client companies have big, masculine names, too -- like First Nation Financial and Global Platinum Investments. Though for all we know they could be tiny, like one guy working out of his truck or from a corner table in Starbucks.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Danny Betsolken, for instance, is a small real estate broker, but with a strangely sprawling and impressive Beverly Hills office.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]DANNY BETSOLKEN: [/b]The cost is reasonable. And the biggest thing is that they have the conference room space which allows us to meet with clients in an office.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]RECEPTIONIST: [/b]Good morning, Power Brands.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Good morning. But once you pay a fee, which starts from about $119 a month, your company gets its own swanky reception area (wink, wink). It also has a switchboard manned by women pretending to be your staff (wink, wink). If necessary, they'll cover for the fact that you're really running your whole operation from a table in Starbucks.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Schwartze: [/b]They can become that person's personal assistant right away. "No, he's not in, he'll be back, he's in New York." So, it's a lot of acting that is involved in this business.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]RECEPTIONIST: [/b]Hello.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Hello. OK, that's all fine on the phone. But what if people show up at the front desk and insist on speaking to the CEO of the company right now? What then? Well, then it's Gwen Williams' job to fob them off somehow.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]GWEN WILLIAMS: [/b]I just tell them he's not available because he's not here. He's usually in and out. That's all I can do for you.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]So you say he's in and out all day?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]WILLIAMS:[/b] Right. Just about.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS:[/b] How many times in the average day do you use the phrase, "Oh, he's away from his desk right now"?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]WILLIAMS: [/b]Usually about 10.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]What are the other stock phrases?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]WILLIAMS: [/b]He's in court.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]He's in court? Oh, I'd keep that to yourself, that one.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]WILLIAMS: [/b]Or he's out in the field. Because he could be an attorney.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]Or a farmer.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Schwartze:[/b] It takes a lot of energy to keep this image up. I mean, if you're an agent -- which, we have some agents -- you have people who just pop in to see what your offices look like. Well, if you're never here, I would think that would cause some suspicion.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]Wouldn't you think?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]SCHWARTZE: [/b]Yeah, and so what we do is we try to put everyone at ease, and the girls are very professional, and what they've done is become very good actresses.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]That's right, they have. But be warned: Elisabeth has refused certain companies that wanted to turn her virtual office into a real one.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]SCHWARTZE: [/b]I have said no to dog trainers who wanted to hold classes here.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS:[/b] Wouldn't you just die? You'd have chihuahuas running through your office all day long.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]SCHWARTZE: [/b]Or great Danes. And honestly, when we first opened, I had a plastic surgeon that wanted to have an office here. And he said, "Oh, well, if you could just get me near the sink, that would be good."[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]The best, yeuw, the best thing of all though is that because you have a virtual office, which is therefore nonexistent.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]SCHWARTZE:[/b] Well it is. It is non-existent.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2]Exactly, like Narnia. You have none of the tiresome corporate trappings -- employees, for instance, or furniture to buy, or phones. Danny Betsolken loves that. [/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]In 20 years time are you in a magnificent corporate office? Do you have all the trappings then?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]Betsolken:[/b] No, because I wouldn't want to spend that much on overhead. You know, if we have marble conference room tables that cost 20 grand each, that's coming out of my pocket.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS:[/b] So this is just a glorified P.O. box really. Is it like P.O. boxes taken to the next level?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]SCHWARTZE: [/b]A lot higher level, let's say. I don't think I like being called a P.O. box, OK?[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]PETERS: [/b]Oh, you are such a snob.[/size][/font]
[font=Bookman Old Style][size=2][b]SCHWARTZE:[/b] Well, P.O. box.
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