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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Stevenson's, one of the country's major manufacturers of metal goods.
大家早上好，欢迎来到史蒂文森公司，这是我国主要的金属商品制造商之一。
Thank you for choosing us for your two weeks of work experience.
感谢你们选择来我们这里获得两周的工作经验。
My name is Julia Simmons, and since the beginning of this year I've been the managing director.
我叫朱莉娅·西蒙斯，从今年年初开始担任总经理。
Stevenson's is quite an old company.
史蒂文森公司是一家年头很长的公司。
Like me, the founder, Ronald Stevenson, went into the steel industry when he left school – that was in 1923.
和我一样，创始人罗纳德·史蒂文森在1923年离开学校后进入了钢铁行业。
He set up this company when he finished his apprenticeship, in 1926, although he actually started making plans two years earlier, in 1924.
他在1926年结束学徒生涯时成立了这家公司，尽管他实际上早在两年前（也就是1924年）开始制定计划。
He was a very determined young man!
他是一个非常坚定的年轻人！
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.
史蒂文森公司的长期计划是为机床行业和汽车行业（轿车、卡车）制造零部件，尽管实际上这一计划从未实现。
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，这个计划推迟了五年，因为在公司投产前不久，史蒂文森获得了为医院和其他医疗行业者制造商品的机会，所以这就是我们在前五年所做的事情。
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.
多年来，我们已经极大地扩大了厂房——我们很幸运，厂房足够大，所以没有必要搬迁到新的地方。
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.
然而，这种布局非常不适合现代机器和生产方法，因此我们打算在未来五年内对该厂房进行大规模翻新。
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.
我最好告诉你们，在你们和我们在一起的两个星期里，你们会做些什么，这样你就知道该期待什么了。
Most mornings you'll have a presentation from one of the managers, to learn about their department, starting this morning with research and development.
大多数早上，有一位经理会给你们作报告，从今早的研发开始，了解他们部门的情况。
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!
你们都会在每个部门待一段时间，观察发生的事情并与人们交谈，只要你们不妨碍他们做他们的工作就行！
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.
以前，你们学校的老师每周末都会来了解小组的进展情况，但今年你们学校无法安排。
