Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Stevenson's, one of the country's major manufacturers of metal goods.

各位早上好。欢迎来到斯蒂文森。这里是我国主要的金属制品生产商之一。

Thank you for choosing us for your two weeks of work experience.

感谢您选择我们公司进行为期两周的实习。

My name is Julia Simmons, and since the beginning of this year I've been the managing director.

我叫茱莉亚·西蒙斯。从今年年初开始担任董事总经理。

Stevenson's is quite an old company.

斯蒂文森是一家历史相当久远的公司。

Like me, the founder, Ronald Stevenson, went into the steel industry when he left school – that was in 1923.

和我一样，公司的创始人罗纳德·史蒂文斯先生离校后就进入钢铁行业。他毕业于1923年。

He set up this company when he finished his apprenticeship, in 1926, although he actually started making plans two years earlier, in 1924. 1926

年学徒期结束之后，他创办了这家公司。但是实际上他从2年前，也就是1924年的时候就已经开始计划着开公司了。

He was a very determined young man!

当时的他是个多么有决心的年轻人啊！

Stevenson's long-term plan was to manufacture components for the machine tools industry –although in fact that never came about – and for the automotive industry, that is, cars and lorries.

斯蒂文森的长期目标是为机床产业生产零件，虽然事实上这从未实现，另一个长远目标是为汽车工业，也就是轿车和卡车制造提供零件。

However, there was a delay of five years before that happened, because shortly before the company went into production, Stevenson was given the opportunity to make goods for hospitals and other players in the healthcare industry, so that's what we did for the first five years.

然而，这一目标的实现却拖延了五年，因为就在公司投产之前，斯蒂文森得到机会为医院和医疗行业的其他参与者生产商品。这成为公司创立后前五年的营业活动。

Over the years, we've expanded the premises considerably – we were lucky that the site is big enough, so moving to a new location has never been necessary.

这些年来，公司的营业场所已经扩大很多。幸运的是，场地足够宽敞，所以不需要搬到新的地址。

However, the layout is far from ideal for modern machinery and production methods, so we intend to carry out major refurbishment of this site over the next five years.

但是，对于现代机械和生产方法来说，公司的布局远远不够理想，所以我们打算在接下来的五年内进行重大整修。

I'd better give you some idea of what you'll be doing during your two weeks with us, so you know what to expect.

我应该介绍一下接下来两周你们的工作，这样一来你们就知道接下来的安排。

Most mornings you'll have a presentation from one of the managers, to learn about their department, starting this morning with research and development.

从今天开始，大多数的早晨大家都会参与一场由公司经理轮流主持的报告会，了解他们的部门运行。今天是研发部的会议。

And you'll all spend some time in each department, observing what's going on and talking to people – as long as you don't stop them from doing their work altogether!

大家会在每个部门呆上几天，观察部门运行。只要大家不妨碍员工的工作，还可以和他们交流。

In the past, a teacher from your school has come in at the end of each week to find out how the group were getting on, but your school isn't able to arrange that this year.

过去，每逢周末，贵校都会有一位老师来了解大家的情况，但贵校今年无法安排。