Learn English with THE OFFICE — Michael Scott Paper Company · Learn English With TV Series
通过《办公室》片段学习职场和商业场景的高级表达，如‘expedite’和‘generous offer’。适合练习商务英语和听力理解。
In today's lesson with the office you'll learn English expressions for the workplace and business situations with his hilariously.
在今天的课程中，你将通过一些幽默有趣的例子学习用于职场和商务场景的英语表达方式。
So here's what's happening.
那么，事情是这样的：
Michael, who had always worked at Dunder Mifflin, decided to quit his job as manager and start his own paper company.
迈克尔一直在邓德尔·米夫林公司（Dunder Mifflin）工作，他决定辞去经理的职务，自己创办一家报纸公司。
And he didn't do it alone.
他并不是独自完成这一切的。
He took two of his co -workers with him.
他带了两名同事一起去了。
But after just a few weeks of running his new business, his old company, Dunder Mifflin, called him back for a meeting.
然而，在新公司运营仅仅几周后，他的老东家——Dunder Mifflin公司——就打电话让他回去开会。
Why?
为什么呢？
To make him an offer to buy him out.
向他提出收购他的提议。
Michael, in order to expedite these negotiations, we are prepared to make you a very generous offer.
迈克尔，为了加快这些谈判的进程，我们准备向你提出一个非常优厚的条件。
And we are prepared to reject that offer.
我们准备拒绝那个提议。
Michael, you haven't even heard that?
迈克尔，你甚至还没听说过这件事吗？
Never, except their first offer.
从来没有，除了他们第一次给出的报价之外。
What is your second offer?
你的第二个报价是多少？
Now, before we get started, you should know that these expressions that you're seeing highlighted below, like a generous offer to buy out to expedite,
在我们开始之前，你需要知道：下面那些被高亮显示的表达方式（比如“为了加快进程而提出的慷慨收购提议”）……
and many, many more that you learned today, are included in a deck of flashcards that we created,
还有很多很多你们今天学到的内容，都被收录在我们制作的一套闪卡中。
especially for this lesson with the office on our own app.
尤其是对于这节课来说，我们可以直接使用我们自己的应用程序来操作办公室相关的功能。
If you want to remember all these words forever, never forget them and actually be able to use them when you speak,
如果你想永远记住所有这些单词，永远不要忘记它们，并且能够在说话时真正使用它们，那么……
this is the best way for you to do that.
这是你完成这件事的最佳方式。
Click the link below to access this lesson from inside our app and you can even watch it from there too.
点击下面的链接，即可通过我们的应用程序访问这节课的内容；您甚至可以直接在应用程序中观看该课程。
Are you kidding me?
你是在开玩笑吗？
That is insultingly low?
这个价格低得简直侮辱人啊……
I don't even want to hear what your first offer was.
我甚至都不想听你最初提出的报价是多少。
Here's the situation.
情况如下：
Your company is four weeks old.
你们的公司成立已经四周了。
I know this business.
我熟悉这个行业。
I know what suppliers are charging.
我知道各个供应商的收费情况。
I know you can't be making very much money.
我知道你的收入应该不会很高。
I don't know how your prices are so low, but I know it can't keep up that way.
我不知道你们的价格怎么会这么低，但我知道这种状况不可能持续下去。
I'm sure you're scared.
我敢肯定你很害怕。
Probably in debt.
很可能负债了。
It's the best offer you're going to get.
这是你能得到的最好的报价了。
Michael, in order to expedite these negotiations, we are prepared to make you a very generous offer.
迈克尔，为了加快这些谈判的进程，我们准备向你提出一个非常优厚的条件。
And we are prepared to reject that offer.
我们准备拒绝那个提议。
If you expedite something, it means you're trying to speed up the process to make it happen faster.
如果你加快某件事的进度，那就意味着你正在努力加速整个流程，以便使其更快地完成。
So David's intention are to speed up the negotiation by offering more money than Michael deserves for his company.
因此，大卫的意图是通过提出比迈克尔应得的更高的报价来加快谈判进程。
He calls this a generous offer when you give someone something that is really nice and more than you think is fair.
当你送给别人某样非常珍贵的东西，而且这份礼物的价值超出了你原本认为的“公平范围”时，他才会称这种行为为“慷慨的举动”。
Let's hear how much David has in mind.
让我们听听大卫到底有什么打算。
Are you kidding me?
你是在开玩笑吗？
That is insultingly low?
这个价格低得简直是一种侮辱……
Michael means the offer is so low that it feels disrespectful like an insult or offense.
Michael”这个表达暗示：这个报价实在太低了，低到让人觉得这是一种不尊重他人的行为，甚至是一种侮辱或冒犯。