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Budget Meeting

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ID: 1204 Upper Intermediate
This Mandarin podcast is about every company's most beloved ritual. Casual Fridays? Water-cooler gossip? Nope. It's the budget meeting! Listen and learn how to tighten your belt and trim expenses in Chinese.
Wed Jul 15 2009 | Jenny , John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
预算 yùsuàn budget
大户 dàhù big, powerful family
削减 xuējiǎn to reduce
开支 kāizhī expenditures
今年公司预算的重点是削减开支。你们销售部是花钱大户，有什么计划？
jīnnián gōngsī yùsuàn de zhòngdiǎn shì xuējiǎn kāizhī 。nǐmen xiāoshòu bù shì huāqián dàhù ，yǒu shénme jìhuà ？
The main focus of our budget this year is reducing expenditures. You guys in sales are the big spenders. What's your plan?
顾总监，经济越不好，我们越要主动出击。所以销售部今年的预算稍微增加了一点。
Gù zǒngjiān ，jīngjì yuè bù hǎo ，wǒmen yuè yào zhǔdòng chūjī 。suǒyǐ xiāoshòu bù jīnnián de yùsuàn shāowēi zēngjiā le yīdiǎn 。
Chief Inspector Gu, the worse the economy gets, the more pro-active we need to be. So the sales department's budget increased a bit this year.
什么？增加？现在这种经济状况，公司不可能批。
shénme ？zēngjiā ？xiànzài zhèzhǒng jīngjì zhuàngkuàng ，gōngsī bù kěnéng pī 。
What? It increased? In this kind of economic environment, the company really can't approve this.
可是我们不能保守等死。我需要更大的销售团队，不仅要守住老客户，更要大力开拓新客户。
kěshì wǒmen bùnéng bǎoshǒu děng sǐ 。wǒ xūyào gèng dà de xiāoshòu tuánduì ，bùjǐn yào shǒuzhù lǎo kèhù ，gèng yào dàlì kāituò xīn kèhù 。
But we can't just sit tight and wait for our doom. I need an even bigger sales team. We don't just need to keep our old clients-- even more, we need to get new clients!
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