VOA 商务英语 lesson46

（单词翻译）

M: Ms.Chen, when did you get into the sofeware business?
F: For several years, I’ve been thinking about developing computer games.
M: Computer games ,and your company name is Virtual Games?
F: en… I got some financial backing(资助) and founded Virtual Games.
M: and how are the games coming along?(进展如何)
F: slowly but surely, our first game is a virtual reality（虚拟现实） game.
M: This game must use the latest technology
F: technology that even are not on the market yet.
Q: What does Ms.Chen’s company develop?
A: Virtual reality games.

Dialog 2: piracy¹（盗版）=plagiarism, pirate=plagiarist ,file for protection(申请保护)，legal recourse（法律追索）,thief(小偷)＝theft(偷窃行为)
M: Tell me what your concerns are?
F: My main concern is how to protect my game from piracy.
M: protection does not stop pirate, just discourage them.
F: I don’t want people to steal my products.
M: Of course not, that’s why we file for protection.
F: And that will protect me from all thefts?
M: As I said, it will discourge pirate,not stop them.
F:but it’ll give me legal recourse.
M: Production protection will give you legal recourse.

Q: What does Ms.Chen want to do?
A: protect her products

Dialog 3:
Source code(源代码)， the user’s manual, component², intellectual property 
F: Protecting my source code is my first goal.
M: You want to broaden your protection.
F: you mean the user’s manual and…
M: you want to protect all the game components³.
F: like the name and the logo
M: The name ,the logo, the graphics⁴ on the package.
F: in other words, my intellectual properties.
M:right, we ‘ll protect all your intellectual properties
Q: What does she want to protect?
A: all the game components, all the intellectual properties.
Small Talk: (请求允许)
----I want to ask you something?
----What is it?
----I was wondering if /I’d like to /I can have a week vacation to visit my mother?