Hi Peter, can I talk to you for a moment. I just heard the cookie factory downtown is going out of business.

你好！彼特，我可以和你聊聊嗎？我剛剛聽說市中心的餅干工廠要破產啦。volume_up

Where did you hear that?

你從哪兒聽說的？volume_up

Sara told me.

莎沙告訴我的。volume_up

I'm not sure that's true. I haven't heard anything about it.

我不知道那是不是真的，我什麼都沒聽說。volume_up

She said that they have already started to lay people off.

她說他們已經開始裁員啦。volume_up

Doesn't your father work there?

你爸爸不是在那兒上班嗎？volume_up

Yes, I'm really worried he might get laid off, he just started to work there about three months ago. What do you think I should do?

是的，我真的很擔心他，我怕他被裁掉，他三個月前才剛剛開始在那裡上班的，你覺得我現在應該怎麼辦？volume_up

I'd talk to your father.

我要告訴你爸爸。volume_up

Yeah, but if there was something wrong I don't think he'd tell me. He doesn't like to upset me, but I really would like to know what's going on.

是的，但是如果有什麼不好的事情，我覺得他不會告訴我的，因為他不喜歡讓我擔心，但是我真的想知道到底發生了什麼事。volume_up

So what are you gonna do?

那你準備怎麼做？volume_up

Aren't you good friends with the president of that company?

你和那個公司的老闆不是好朋友嗎？volume_up

Yes, we use to work together at a different company about five years ago.

是的，大概五年前我們一起在另外一家公司上班。volume_up

Maybe you could call him and see what's going on.

或許你可以打電話給他，看看發生了什麼事情。volume_up

Well, I don't know. I guess I could. It's pretty late now, but I'll call him in the morning.

嗯，我不太清楚。我覺得我可以打電話給他。但現在已經很晚啦，但我明天早上可以打電話給他。volume_up

OK, thanks so much.

好的，非常感謝。volume_up