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童鞋們快來上英聽課了哦~~

今日主題：開放式辦公室 Open-Plan Office
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康康精選雅思會考的主題，堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!

建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。

MP3音檔 (按右鍵可下載聽)：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
http://static.iyuba.com/sounds/minutes/129.mp3

只有音檔怎夠，聽不懂地方，不用怕，康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：

中英文稿：
Hello, I’m Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. I’ve got Finn with me today. Hello Finn.
大家好，我是Rob。歡迎來到6分鐘英語。今天和我一起的是Finn，你好，Finn。
Hi Rob, how’s it going?
你好Rob，最近怎麼樣？
All right. You might notice it’s a bit noisier than usual – that’s because we’re in our open-plan office.
挺好的。你或許已經注意到了，這比往常要喧鬧一些--那是因為我們在開放式辦公室。
Yes, it’s a big room full of desks with no walls between them and, as I look around, I can see maybe about 50 colleagues working very hard at their computers!
是的，這間沒有牆隔著的大屋佈滿了桌子，並且，我四處看了下，大約有50名同事正守著自己面前的電腦努力工作著！
And today we’re talking about open-plan offices – and learning some language related to office life.
今天我們就來討論下開放式辦公室--學習一些跟辦公生活相關的一些語言。
That’s right. Rob, shall we just go back into the studio where it’s a bit quieter?
是的。Rob我們去演播室吧，那裡更安靜些。
Good idea. Let’s go. (in the studio) Right, come in here.
好主意。走吧。好了，進來吧。
That’s better. That’s good, isn’t it?
好多了。很好，不是嗎？
Lovely.
很好
Rob – a question? You know a lot about sound, don’t you?
Rob--問你個問題？關於聲音你知道很多，對吧？
Well, a bit.
一點點。
What do we call a kind of noise that contains the full range of sounds that humans can hear? Is it… a) white noise b) green noise c) pink noise
有一種噪音，包含了人類可以聽到的所有聲音，你知道叫什麼嗎？a) 白色噪音 b）綠色噪音 c）粉色噪音。
Good question. I’m only familiar with the term ’white noise’, so I’ll go for a) white noise.
好問題。我只對“白色噪音”這個詞比較熟悉，我選a）白色噪音。
Well, we’ll see if you’re right at the end of the programme. So shall we continue talking about offices?
好的，我們在節目的最後來看看你回答的是否正確。我們繼續來討論下辦公室的話題？
Yes, millions of people like us work in open-plan offices these days, but they’re not new. Do you remember Henry Ford, the American industrialist from the late 19th Century and early 20th Century?
這些天，數以百萬計的人像我們一樣在開放式辦公室工作，但這不是最近才有的。你還記得亨利．福特嗎，那個19世紀末二十世紀初美國實業家？
Yes, he owned factories and he made the famous Ford cars.
是的，他擁有好幾個工廠，生產著名的福特汽車。
He’s also one of the main names in the story of open-plan offices.
他也是開放式辦公室故事中一個主要人物。
Yes, Henry Ford was really concerned with efficiency, wasn’t he?
是的，亨利．福特真的是很關心效率的，不是嗎？
Yes. Efficiency is one of main reasons for open-plan offices – they increase communication and collaboration among staff.
不是的。效率是開放式辦公室的一個主要原因，他們增加了員工間的交流和協作。
Now, a company’s staff – its employees – work together for the same goals – they collaborate, exchanging information and ideas. This can be nice, but there can be too many of us in a small space!
現在，一家公司的工作人員--它的員工--為了相同的目標一起工作。他們協作，交流資訊和想法。這很好，但房間這麼小，人太多了！
Franklin Becker, social psychologist at Cornell University in the US, thinks the reason open-plan offices have become acceptable and popular, or as he says – the reason they have taken root – is different. What reason does he give?
Franklin Becker，美國康奈爾法學的社會心理學家，認為開放式辦公室已經變得普遍和被人接受，或者就像他說的--開放式辦公室變得普遍和被人接受的原因是不同的。他給出了什麼樣的原因呢？
The fundamental reason why open plan has taken root has nothing to do really with communication or collaboration or even flexibility. It has to do with the fact that you can reduce the amount of space per person in an open-plan versus any kind of a closed cellular office.
根本原因已經真的與溝通或合作甚至靈活性無關。相比任何形式的密閉辦公室，開放式辦公室可以減少每個人的平均面積，它與這個事實相關。
Well, it’s all about saving space and money. He says it takes less space per person in an open-plan office than it does in a cellular office – that’s an office which is made up of lots of small, closed rooms.
好吧，都是為了節省空間和金錢。他說在開放式辦公室每個人所占平均空間比密閉式的要小。這辦公室是由很多小房間組成的。
In those offices, the space for each individual – per person - is limited. Which is why open-plan offices have taken root.
在這些辦公室裡，每一個人（每人）的空間是有限的。這就是問什麼開放式辦公室會出現的原因。
So some very good reasons for open-plan offices. But what about the noise?
所以開放式辦公室有一些很好的原因。但是噪音怎麼辦呢？
The noise! Yes! Although open-plan offices can save a company money, they have hidden costs. Sound expert Julian Treasure explains what they are. He uses a very important word for business. Which word is it?
噪音！是的！儘管開放式辦公室給公司節省了錢，但他們有一些隱藏的成本。聲音專家 Julian Treasure給出了解釋。對於商業他使用了一個非常重要的詞。是什麼呢？
Nobody can understand two people talking at the same time. We have bandwidth for about 1.6 people talking. Now that’s key when we are talking about open-plan offices because if I’m trying to do work it requires me to listen to a voice in my head to organise symbols, to organise a flow of words and put them on paper, for example. And if you’re talking at the same time, then you’re taking up one of my 1.6. I’m left with 0.6 in my head. That doesn’t work very well - it reduces my productivity dramatically.
每人能夠同時聽兩個人在說話。我們的聽覺寬度大約為1.6個人。我們在開放式辦公室說話的時候是很關鍵的，因為比如說我正在努力工作呢，這時讓我聽一個聲 音來組織符號，組織一串話，並寫在紙上。如果這時你也在說話，你就佔據了我頻寬的1.6分之一。我腦中就只剩了0.6。這使工作並不好--大大降低了我的 工作效率。
The word, right at the end there, was productivity. Workers in open-plan offices get distracted when others speak, and their ability to produce work – their productivity - is reduced.
那個詞，就在話的末尾，就是工作效率。在開放式辦公室工作的人分散了注意力當其他人說話的時候，然後他們的工作能力--工作效率就會下降。
The expert says we can concentrate on 1.6 voices saying different things at the same time. That’s not even two people!
專家說我們可以在1.6個人的聲音頻寬的情況下同時說不同的事。這甚至都不到兩個人！
No, not really. He says one voice is in your own head, to organise the flow, the movement, of words and ideas when you think and write.
是的啊。他說你腦海裡有一個聲音來組織詞語的排序，當你在思考和書寫的時候。
And the other is… well, people like you on the phone all the time!
另一個，好吧，像你這樣的人一直在打電話！
Oh, come on Rob. I suppose I do speak on the phone quite a lot but I didn’t know I was disturbing your work.
得了吧Rob，我的確是打過很多電話，但我不知道我打擾到你工作。
You are.
是的，你打擾到了。
Oh, sorry. Shall we go back to the question I asked earlier?
Oh，很抱歉。我們回到之前我問你的問題吧？
Okay.
ok。
I asked you about the colour of noise that contains the full range of sounds that humans can hear. Was it white, green or pink noise?
我問你人類可以聽到的所有聲音組合的顏色是什麼？是白色的，綠色的還是粉色的呢？
Yes. And I went for white noise.
是的，我選的是白色的噪音。
The answer is, in fact, pink noise. That’s the name scientists give noise…
答案是，實際上是粉色的噪音。那就是科學家給噪音的名字。
Interesting colour.
有趣的顏色。
… the full range of audio frequencies or sounds that humans can hear.
.....人類能夠聽到的音訊頻率或聲音的完整範圍。
Okay. Well, it’s almost time to go but could you remind us of some of the English words we heard today?
好的。時間差不多了，你能讓大家想一下今天聽到的英語單詞嗎？
Of course. We heard: open-plan office; industrialist; collaboration; staff; to take root per person; flow; productivity.
當然. 我們聽到了：open-plan office--開放式辦公室；industrialist--實業家；collaboration--協作；staff--員工；to take root--生根；per person--每個人；flow--流動；productivity--工作效率。
Thanks Finn. Well that’s it for this programme. Please join us soon again for 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
謝謝Finn。這就是今天節目的全部內容了。請繼續加入我們BBC 6分鐘英語。
Bye.
再見。