F: Welcome aboard!
F：欢迎你来本公司工作！
C: Thank you, I’m delighted to be working here, Ms.Buchwald.
谢谢。我很高兴能来这里上班，布华奇先生。
F: Call me Buck, will you? My name is Reginald Buchwald but everybody call me Buck. It’s easier.
叫我布客就可以了，好吗？我的全名是雷奇纳客.布奇华，但是大家都叫我布客。这样比较方便。
C: I would hesitate to call you anything but Mr. Buchwald. Isn't it rather disrespectful to make a nickname out of the family name?
除了布奇华先生之外，我不好直呼其他名字，替别人另外取绰号，不是很不礼貌吗？
F: Will, President Eisenhower was known as Ike. Everybody in this company all the way up and down the line is called by his or her first name.
嗯，艾森豪威尔总统也被呢称为艾克。我们公司的上上下下都是直呼每个人的名字。
F: It’s been our tradition ever since the company was small.And don’t worry about the disrespect business, OK?
在我们公司规模很小的时候这就已经形成传统。不要担心不礼貌的事了，好吗？
C:I’ll try.
我会试试看。
F: Good. But when there are outsiders, like business people from other companies, it might be good practice to address your higher-ups as Mr., Ms.orwhatever is appropriate.
好。不过。如果有外人在时，如其他公司的人，最好能称呼你的上司为先生、小姐或任何适当的称谓。
F: To the outside world, our custom may be interpreted as a singn of flippancy or lax discipline. Get it?
对外人而言，我们的习惯可能会是轻率的和纪律松懈的表现。明白吗？
C:Yes, sir.
是的，先生。
F: (laughing) And don’t sir me either. Now I’ll show you your private office.
（笑着说）也不要叫我先生。现在，我带你去看你的私人办公室。
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