下面是外貿(mào)活動(dòng)參觀的情景對(duì)話，一起來練習(xí)吧。
welcome to our factory 歡迎參觀
a: welcome to our factory, mr. hill. 歡迎來到我們廠，希爾先生。
b: nice to meet you, mr. sun. 很高興見到你，孫先生。
a: let me show you around the factory. this way please. 讓我?guī)教幙纯矗@邊請(qǐng)。
b: thank you. 謝謝。
a: how large is the plant? 這個(gè)工廠有多大?
b: it covers an area of 87,000 square meters. 面積有87000平方米。
a: it's much larger than i expected. how long has your factory been established? 比我們想象的要大多了。你們建廠有多長時(shí)間了?
b: about 30 years. in the late 1970s. we'll soon be celebrating the 30th anniversary. 快30年了。七十年代末建成的。我們很快就要慶祝建廠三十周年了。
a: congratulations! 祝賀你們!
b: thank you. 謝謝。
a: how many employees do you have in this plant? 這個(gè)工廠有多少員工?
b: 600. we're running on three shifts. 600個(gè)，我們是三班制。
a: does the plant work with everything from the raw material to the finished product? 從原料到制成品都是工廠自己生產(chǎn)嗎?
b: our associates specializing in these fields make some accessories. well, here we're at the production shop. shall we start from the assembly line? 有些零配件使我們的聯(lián)營單位生產(chǎn)的，他們是專門從事這一行的。好了，我們到生產(chǎn)車間了。咱們從裝配線開始看，好嗎?
a: that's fine. 好的。
show around 帶領(lǐng)參觀
a: mr. brown, i'd like to welcome you to our tools factory site. my name is li hui and i will be showing you around today. please feel free to ask questions at any point during our tour, i will be happy to answer questions for you. i hope you will have a main idea about our factory.
布朗先生，歡迎您來到我們工廠參觀。我叫李輝，今天由我來帶您參觀工廠。參觀期間，如果有問題請(qǐng)隨時(shí)提問。我樂于為您解答。希望您會(huì)對(duì)我們廠有個(gè)主要了解。
b: thank you.
謝謝。
a: now this is our office block. we have all the administrative departments here: sales, accounting, personnel, market research and so on.
這是我們的辦公區(qū)，我們所有的行政部門都在這兒：銷售部、會(huì)計(jì)部、人事部、市場(chǎng)調(diào)查部等等。
b: can i have a look at your main plant?
我能看看你們的主要車間嗎?
a: yes, this way. considering your safety, please wear protective gear.
可以，這邊走。考慮到您的安全，請(qǐng)戴上安全防護(hù)裝備。
b: is it really necessary to wear all this protective gear.
真的有必要戴上防護(hù)裝備嗎?
a: yes. i'll bet your wondering why we ask you to wear hard hats and safty goggles while you're in the plant. the reason is simple: we want to ensure there are no injures today. as you will see, to maintain a high level of safety, we also require all of our staff to wear similar protective gear.
是的。我敢說您一定想知道我們?yōu)槭裁匆竽魃瞎こ堂焙妥o(hù)目鏡。原因很簡(jiǎn)單，我們要確保今天不出任何受傷現(xiàn)象。您還會(huì)看到，為了保證絕對(duì)安全，我們要求所有的員工也都戴上同樣的防護(hù)裝備。
b: okay. 好吧。 a: here in the main plant is where most of the action takes place. we produce and package more than six hundred thousand units per year on these machines.
這里是主要生產(chǎn)車間，大部分生產(chǎn)在此完成。我們用這些機(jī)器每年要生產(chǎn)和包裝60萬套產(chǎn)品。
b: how many employees do you have working in this area?
這個(gè)車間有多少人?
a: we have about 50 employees on the ground floor, which is about 20% of the total staff. ground floor employees include production line workers, maintenance staff, and quality control managers.
有50人在這里工作，占總?cè)藬?shù)的20%，包括生產(chǎn)線工人、維修工和質(zhì)量檢查人員。
b: what do all your quality control people oversee?
質(zhì)量檢察人員負(fù)責(zé)檢查什么?
a: they are responsible for ensuring the continuity of quality of the products that come out of our plant. here, let's move on to the assembly shop.
他們負(fù)責(zé)確保我們工廠生產(chǎn)的產(chǎn)品質(zhì)量的穩(wěn)定性�，F(xiàn)在，讓我們?nèi)パb配車間看看。
b: it's up to you. 你決定吧。
a: ok. let's go. 好，走吧。
b: all right. 好的。
重點(diǎn)講解
1. “ considering ”在這里是個(gè)介詞，后面接名詞。意為“鑒于，考慮到”。 eg. she is very active, considering her age. 就她的年齡來說，她是夠活躍的。 “considering”也可以做連詞，后面接個(gè)句子。 eg. considering he's only just started, he knows quite a lot about it. 考慮到他只是剛剛開始，他對(duì)此的了解已經(jīng)不少了。
2. responsible for 是……的原由;為……負(fù)責(zé) eg. while you are responsible for your duties, you cannot do everything by yourself. 當(dāng)你對(duì)你的任務(wù)負(fù)責(zé)時(shí)，你就不能親自做每一項(xiàng)事情。 eg. after all, if a person is not responsible for their own brain, who is? 畢竟，如果一個(gè)人不能為自己的大腦負(fù)責(zé)，誰能呢?