职业技术英语口语 第44期:建筑物和设备 进展

 　　Making progress

　　进展

　　A: How's the building work going?

　　A:这个建筑工程进展的如何了？

　　B:Well, I'm afraid jwe've had a slight delay.

　　B:哦,恐怕有点耽误。

　　A: What's the problem? We really can't have any delays at this stage. We're working to a really tight schedule and we re already over budget.

　　A:什么问题？在这个阶段我们没有任何耽搁。我们工作时间表安排的很紧，我们已经超支了。

　　B: The cement¹ arrived late but don't worry, I'm confident we can still meet the deadline. The crew is on stand-by and as soon as the concrete has set we can get started again.

　　B:水泥来晚了，但是别担心，我有信心我们能够按期完成。工作人员正在待命，水泥一到位之后，我们可以再次开工。

　　A: OK. Keep me informed. Jt must be ready on time.

　　A:行。有事随时通知我。必须准时完成。

1 cement   

n.水泥；胶结材料；vt.粘结；巩固

参考例句：

• We need 100 tons of cement at most for this project.这项工程满打满算有一百吨水泥就足够了。
• Let's cement the parts together.咱们来把这些部件粘接在一起吧。