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Negotiating a Deadline

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ID: 1478 Upper Intermediate
So you're working in a Chinese company, and your boss is really piling on the work, with unrealistic deadlines. What are you going to do? In today's lesson, we see how a conscientious translator is able to skillfully talk her manager into extending the deadline. (Yeah, acquiring this skill is going to take some practice!)
Tue Aug 17 2010 | Jenny, John
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引进 yǐnjìn to introduce from elsewhere
生产线 shēngchǎnxiàn production line
说明书 shuōmíngshū instruction manual
翻译 fānyì to translate
小施，最近公司从国外引进了一批生产线，有一些产品说明书需要你翻译一下。你看，今天下班前完成没问题吧？
Xiǎo Shī ，zuìjìn gōngsī cóng guówài yǐnjìn le yī pī shēngchǎnxiàn ，yǒu yīxiē chǎnpǐn shuōmíngshū xūyào nǐ fānyì yīxià 。nǐ kàn ，jīntiān xiàbān qián wánchéng méi wèntí ba ？
Xiao Shi, recently the company has brought a group of new production lines. There are some instruction manuals you'll need to translate. Do you think you'll be able to finish this before the workday is over?
经理，我想问一下有多少内容需要翻译。
jīnglǐ ，wǒ xiǎng wèn yīxià yǒu duōshao nèiróng xūyào fānyì 。
Sir, may I ask how much content will need translating?
大概一万多字。
dàgài yīwàn duō zì 。
About 10,000 characters.
那么多！经理，我觉得今天肯定做不完，我手上还有其他的翻译工作要做呢。
nàme duō ！jīnglǐ ，wǒ juéde jīntiān kěndìng zuòbuwán ，wǒ shǒushang háiyǒu qítā de fānyì gōngzuò yào zuò ne 。
That much! Sir, I don't think there's any way it can be finished today. I still have a lot of other translation work I have to do today.
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