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Trading Stamps-(用赠券换东西)

millions of什么意思

A：Every time I go to the grocery, the clerk asks me if I save stamps.I always say no, but sometimes I get them anyway.
每次我去杂货店，店员都问我是否收集赠券。我总是说"不"，不过有的时候我还是积下些赠券。

B：Oh, never turn them down.You can always find someone who'll take them.People spend hours pasting them in little books, and when a book is full.they drive miles to a redemption center where the stamps can be traded for things like pillow cases, or playing cards, or garden tools.
啊，别丢掉它。你总会找到回收赠券的人。 有些人花时间把赠券粘贴在小本子上,当一本贴满后,开几英里的车到回收中心去，在那儿可以用赠券交换像枕头套、扑克牌或修整花园的工具等东西。

A：But you have to save millions of them to get anything worth having.
不过你得收集相当多张才能换回一些有重要价值的东西。

Getting Started-(成立公司)

A：Let's review our start-up plans. When do you think we will be able to move into our new office?
我们再看一遍我们的初步计划。你想什么时候我们可以搬进新的办公室？

B：Well, we can move in any time after July first, but moving in and actually getting started are two different things.
七月一号之后我们随时可以搬进去，不过搬进去和实际开始工作是两回事。

A：Good point. Anyway, I have our new marketing manager, Helen Parker, helping us get set up.
说得好。无论如何，我会要我们新任的市场经理，海伦.派克帮忙我们打点一切。

B：What is she doing?
她是做什么的？

A：She's overseeing the purchase of equipment and so forth.
她监督机器设备的采购等等。

B：Does she have a background in that sort of thing?
她有那方面的背景吗？

A：As a matter of fact, it turns out she practically ran her last company, from marketing to finance.
事实上，她上一个公司从行销到财务，实际上都是她在运作的。

B：I'm looking forward to meeting her.
我期待认识她。

A：Have you begun to investigate factories? I'm so glad we aren't going to try to run our own factory at first.
你开始调查工厂了吗？我很高兴我们没有先试图设立自己的工厂。

B：Yes, I've started. And I've found some good people for R and D, too. Then there are the art people designing our logos-
是的，开始了。我也替研发部门找了些好人才。然后有一些美术人员设计我们的商标——

A：Oh, no! Millions of details: logos, slogans, letterhead, name cards . . .
商标，标语，信头，名片……

B：You thought setting up a company was going to be easy?
你觉得创立一间公司会容易吗？