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Man: I’d like to introduce our studio guest, Sally Upton, who was the editor of the magazine ‘Teenage Fashion’ and is now about to produce her own magazines. Welcome Sally.
男：我想介绍一下我们的演播室嘉宾莎莉·厄普顿，她是《青少年时尚》杂志的编辑，现在正准备出版自己的杂志。欢迎莎莉。
Woman: Thank you.
女：谢谢。
Man: Sally, your first idea for publishing needed a one billion pound loan, didn’t it?
男：莎莉，你第一个出版的想法需要10亿英镑的贷款，不是吗？
Woman: It did. I wanted to buy MPC - the biggest magazine company in the UK. And the bank agreed!
女：是的。我想买下MPC——英国最大的杂志公司。银行同意了！
Man: But in fact that deal didn't succeed, so you didn’t borrow the money.
男：但事实上，那笔交易没有成功，所以你没有借钱。
Woman: That's right. Someone made them a better offer and then not long after I just missed another deal with a smaller company.
女：没错。有人给了他们更好的报价，不久之后我又错过了另一笔与一家小公司的交易。
So, in the end I decided to see if it would be possible to find finance for a completely new company, which I’ve called Close Communications.
所以，最后我决定看看是否有可能为一家全新的公司找到资金，我称之为“密切沟通”。
Man: Was it easy to find a bank to agree to the idea of a new company?
男：找一家与新公司想法一直的银行容易吗？
Woman: It’s harder to get financial support for starting a new company than for buying an existing one, even though I didn’t want nearly as much as a billion pounds.
女：尽管我并不想要几十亿英镑，但是成立一家新公司比收购现有公司更难获得资金支持。
I tried a lot of bankers, but none wanted to invest in us.
我试过很多银行家，但没有人想给我们投资。
Man: So, what then?
男：那么，后来怎么样呢？
Woman: Well, I got a business partner, and he suggested something really simple.
女：我有个生意伙伴，他建议了一些非常简单的东西。
We rang up six friends we knew had money to invest, and asked them to support us, and they agreed!
我们打电话给我们认识的六个有钱投资的朋友，请他们支持我们，他们同意了！
Man: Well, they were good friends! And how did you recruit your staff?
男：他们真是好朋友！那你又是如何招募员工的？
I’ve heard you use quite unusual methods ...
我听说你用了非常不寻常的方法…...
