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Hello, James, do sit down. Right, as you know, our Nottingham centre has had a significant drop in income over the last few months. In fact, it' s doing much worse than our other British centres, for reasons we haven' t really been able to get to the bottom of. The situation is now pretty worrying, and even if immediate action is taken, I don' t expect Nottingham to return to profitability this year. Now, it seems to me we have two options facing us. The first is to see if we can create a strategy to keep the operation going, and the second is to close it down completely. What' s your feeling about it? Closing it down would be a disaster. You know, when there was a situation like this in the European division, they turned it around with a special promotion which worked very well. Do you remember this time last year, when we thought we' d have to sell some of the French centres? Well, now they' re doing well and we didn' t even have to spend any extra money on them, either. Yes, that' s true. But Nottingham has lost nearly a million in the six months and we can' t afford to keep absorbing that kind of loss. |
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James nǐ hǎo, qǐng zuò. rú nǐ suǒ zhī, wǒ men nuò dīng hàn zhōng xīn zài guò qù jǐ gè yuè de shōu rù yǒu xiǎn zhù de xià huá. shì shí shàng, nuò dīng hàn zhōng xīn bǐ qí tā de yīng guó zhōng xīn chà, yuán yīn wǒ men zàn shí hái bù qīng chǔ. xiàn zài de xíng shì fēi cháng dì yán jùn, jí shǐ xiàn zài yǒu lì jí de xíng dòng kāi shǐ, wǒ bù gǎn shē wàng nuò dīng hàn jīn nián huì yǒu lì rùn shōu huí. xiàn zài, sì hū wǒ men miàn qián yǒu liǎng gè jué zé. dì yí gè xuǎn zé shì rú guǒ wǒ men yǒu yí gè jì cè shǐ wǒ men de jīng yíng jì xù xià qù, ér dì èr gè xuǎn zé jiù shì bǎ nuò dīng hàn guān le. nǐ jué de zěn me yàng? bǎ nuò dīng hàn guān le huì shì yí gè sǔn shī. nǐ zhī dào, rú guǒ zhè zhǒng qíng kuàng fā shēng zài ōu zhōu de dà bù mén, tā men huì yòng yí gè tè bié de tuī guǎng lái shǐ gōng sī hǎo zhuǎn. nǐ hái jì de qù nián de zhè gè shí hòu, dāng wǒ men kǎo lǜ wǒ men yào xiāo shòu yī xiē fǎ guó zhōng xīn ma? xiàn zài zhèi xiē fǎ guó zhōng xīn yíng yùn dé fēi cháng hǎo, ér qiě wǒ men yě bù yòng zài tā men shēn shàng huā é wài de qián. shì de, dàn shì nuò dīng hàn zhōng xīn zài qù nián liù ge yuè yǐ jīng sǔn shī le jiāng jìn yī bǎi wàn, wǒ men yě méi yǒu néng lì qù chéng shòu zhèi xiē sǔn shī. jiě xī: Get to the bottom of sth. shì wù de qǐ yīn gēn yuán Profitability the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit shōu yì xìng tóng yì cí: profitableness fǎn yì cí: unprofitableness, unprofitability Division n. dà jī gòu de bù mén In a large organization, a division is a group of departments whose work is done in the same place or is connected with similar tasks Turn around shǐ hǎo zhuǎn shǐ fù sū becomes successful, after being unsuccessful for a period of time. If something such as a business or economy turns around, or if someone turns it around, it e. g. In his long career at BP, Horton turned around two entire divisions... huò dùn zài yīng guó shí yóu gōng sī màn cháng de zhí yè shēng yá zhōng céng jīng ràng liǎng gè bù mén zhěng tǐ shàng qǐ sǐ huí shēng. If a group is absorbed into a larger group, it becomes part of the larger group. Absorb v. hé bìng jiān bìng xī shōu bìng tóng huà e. g. The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office. zhí mín bù bèi bìng rù le wài jiāo bù. |