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1-- Please let me see the draft of what you have put together for Monday's meeting.
2-- I'm still working on the agenda, there will be a lot to go over on Monday. Here's what I've got so far.
1-- Do you think we will spend more than twenty minutes in the opening? I think it should be pretty simple.
2-- It shouldn't take too long, but there will be a lot of dignitaries at the meeting. In the opening exercises, it is protocol to spend a little time to recoginise them. I reckon it should take about half an hour before we can even get to the minutes.
1-- Really? Well, at least the minutes shouldn't take too long to review. There shouldn't be a lot of active business left over from last meeting.
2-- True. After review and acceptance of the minutes, we have several committee reports. Old business won't take up too much time, but sometimes the committee delegates can be a little verbose… Is there where we can limit their time?
1-- We can set a five minute report time with a three minute question and answer afterwards.
2-- That's not good. Q&A always stretch out the time, because people usually get stuck on some irrelevent point, we'll lose control of the meeting if we open it up to questions too early.
1-- True. Well, imposing an eight minute limit on the committee reports then, we'll save Q&A until right before closed session.
2-- Sounds good. Overall, we can probably keep the meeting under two hours.
1-- Let's hope!
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注解:
1.agenda議程
2.dignitaries顯要人物
3.acceptance接受
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譯文:
1--請(qǐng)讓我看下你起草的周一會(huì)議議程安排.
2--我還在弄會(huì)議議程,周一要有很多事情要做.這是我目前已經(jīng)完成的部分.
1--你認(rèn)為我們開(kāi)幕式發(fā)言需要20多分鐘嗎?我認(rèn)為應(yīng)該非常簡(jiǎn)短.
2--是不應(yīng)該花很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間,但是會(huì)上有很多高管出席.開(kāi)幕式上,從禮節(jié)上講需要花點(diǎn)兒時(shí)間讓大家認(rèn)識(shí)下他們.我計(jì)算過(guò)應(yīng)該需要半個(gè)小時(shí)左右才能進(jìn)入會(huì)議紀(jì)律環(huán)節(jié).
1--真的嗎?那好吧,至少不要花太多時(shí)間評(píng)議會(huì)議記錄.上次會(huì)議之后應(yīng)該沒(méi)有留下太多的后續(xù)工作.
2--是這樣.在評(píng)議和接受會(huì)議記錄后,我們還有幾份委員會(huì)的報(bào)告要看.遺留問(wèn)題不會(huì)占太多時(shí)間,但有時(shí)委員會(huì)代表會(huì)很啰嗦…有沒(méi)有辦法限制一下他們的時(shí)間?
1--我們可以設(shè)定報(bào)告時(shí)間為5分鐘,隨后是3分鐘的問(wèn)答時(shí)間.
2--這樣不好.問(wèn)答總會(huì)拉長(zhǎng)時(shí)間,因?yàn)槿藗兺ǔ?huì)就無(wú)關(guān)的論點(diǎn)說(shuō)個(gè)沒(méi)完.如果我們會(huì)上過(guò)早讓大家提問(wèn),我們會(huì)失控的.
1--確實(shí)如此.那我們給委員會(huì)報(bào)告限定8分鐘,這樣把問(wèn)答時(shí)間拖到會(huì)議結(jié)束之前.
2--這樣還不錯(cuò).總的來(lái)說(shuō),我們很可能把會(huì)議控制在兩小時(shí)之內(nèi).
1--希望如此!