16 年第三套真题听力 Conversation One 对话一 M: So, what's the next thing on the agenda, Mary? 男：玛丽，议程表上的下一项是什么？ W: Well, it's the South Theater Company. 女：是有关南方剧院公司的。 They want to know if we 'd be interested insponsoring a tour they want to make to East Asia. 他们想知道我们是否对赞助他们去东亚旅行感兴趣。 M: East Asia? Uh ... and how much are they hopingto get from us? 男：东亚？呃...他们希望我们出多少赞助费？ W: Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds, but I do not know if they might settle for less. 女：信上写的是2 万英镑，但是我不知道赞助金额少点他们是否会接受。 M: Do they say what they would cover? 男：他们有没有说这些钱用来做什么？ Have they anything specific in mind? 他们有没有一些特定的想法？ W: No, I think they are just asking all the firms in town for as much money as they think they'llgive. 女：没有，我认为他们只是想要镇上所有企业拿出其认为该企业能赞助的金额。 M: And we are worth 20,000 pounds, right? 男：在他们看来，我们能拿出 2 万英镑，对吧？ W: It seems so. 女：看起来是这样的。 M: Very flattering. 男：太会奉承了。 But I am not awfully happy with the idea. 但是我对这个想法并不是很满意。 What do we get out of it? 我们能得到什么好处？ W: Oh, good publicity I suppose. 女：我猜想是很好的广告宣传。 So what I suggest is not that we just give them a sum of money, but that we offer to pay forsomething specific like travel or something, 我的建议是：我们不要只是给他们一笔钱就完事了，我们可以赞助像旅行之类的特定项目。 and that in return, we ask for our name to be printed prominently in the program, 这样，我们就可以要求他们把我们公司的名字显著地标示在项目宣传上。 and that they give us free advertising space in it. 他们也就给了我们免费的广告空间。 M: But the travel bill would be enormous, and we could never m...
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