Dialogue 1
A: What’s on today’s agenda?
B: We have an appointment with a customer at 9 am, three interviews before lunch and a project review this afternoon.
A: What about tonight? Would there be time to clean off my desk？
B: Tonight we should have time to catch up on correspondence.
A: Good. I’m always working against time to get letters out.
B: The project review is a week behind schedule. What’s causing the delay?
A: We haven’t had a sufficient amount of time for our review board to meet.
B: Can we still meet the target date?
A: We should be able to. Even though a part of project was due a week ago, we can still complete the whole project on time.
B: Is that so? That’s wonderful. We will be able to cut down on our overtime.
A: Yes. Oh, look at the time! We should be in a hurry to make that first appointment.
A： 今天的日程是怎么安排的？
B： 我们与一位客户预约了上午9点，午餐前进行了三次面试，今天下午进行了工程检查。
A： 今晚怎么样？有时间处理以下手头上未完成的工作吗？
B： 今晚我们应该有时间把信件赶完。
A： 很好。我一直都是抢时间写这些信。
B： 工程检查比计划晚了一周。是什么导致了延迟？
A： 我们没有足够的时间让审查委员会开会商议。
B： 我们还能按期完成吗？
A： 我们应该能够做到。即使这部分项目一周前就应该完成，我们仍然可以按时完成整个项目。
B： 是这样吗？太棒了。我们将能够减少加班时间。
A： 是的。哦，看看时间！我们应该赶在第一时间预约。
Dialogue 2
A: Tomorrow is gone be a long day. Not only do we have the performance reviews scheduled all day, but I also still haven’t filed the report s on our department.
B: I was thinking the same thing. Tomor row is going to be a drag. Will be ready tomorrow?
A: I’ve been so busy. I can hardly keep up with things because there simply hasn’t been any time get ready.
B: So what are you going to do? They will do the review whether you’re ready or not.
A: I will just have to face the performance review unprepared.
B: You can’t use being too busy as an excuse. We’re all equally busy, but some of us put in a lot of overtime.
A: There is more work than there is time.
B: I know things are especially chaotic now, but we can’t afford to make excuses. You’ve got to get better at meeting deadline.
A: Yeah, maybe you are right. We should probably quit complaining about our deadline and get to work. There is no time to lose now.
A： 明天是漫长的一天。我们不仅安排了一整天的绩效评估，而且我还没有提交我们部门的报告。
B： 我也在想同样的事情。明天的会很难熬。那你准备好了吗？
A： 我一直很忙，简直快应付不过来了，因为根本没有时间做好准备。
B： 那你打算怎么办？他们就是要检查你准备的如何。
A： 我将不得不毫无准备地面对绩效考核。
B： 你不能以太忙为借口。我们都很忙，但我们中的一些人加班很多。
A： 可是，时间总是不够用
B： 我知道现在情况特别混乱，但我们不能找借口。你必须尽力如期做好一切工作。
A： 是的，也许你是对的。我们也许应该停止抱怨我们的最后期限，开始工作。不能再浪费时间了。
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