地道美语听力播客901：看合同可得细心

　　芭芭拉：在虚线那儿签名就行了。

　　Sean: Didn’t your parents ever teach you to read every document carefully before you sign it?

　　肖恩：你的父母没教过你要签字前仔细看每一份文件吗?

　　Barbara: Not when the contract is boilerplate. All of the terms are standard.

　　芭芭拉：标准化的合同就不用。所有条款都是公式化条文。

　　Sean: No, they’re not. Did you notice in the fine print that if the agreement is cancelled, we’re on the hook for additional charges?

　　肖恩：不，这就不是。你没注意到小字写着，合同一经撤销，由我方支付额外费用吗?

　　Barbara: Really? No, I guess I missed that.

　　芭芭拉：真的吗?不，我可能是漏掉了。

　　Sean: If you had gone through this document with a fine-tooth comb as I have, you would have noticed that there are loopholes for the other side to end the contract at any time.

　　肖恩：你要是看文件像我这么仔细的话，你就能发现这里有对方随时可以终止合同的漏洞。

　　Barbara: I guess I overlooked those.

　　芭芭拉：我想我是忽视了。

　　Sean: And there are contingencies for problems on their end, but not on ours.

　　肖恩：还有，他们那边遇到紧急事件可以终止合同，可我们就不行。

　　Barbara: Wow, I didn’t realize they were trying to screw us. Maybe we shouldn’t do business with them.

　　芭芭拉：哇，我没意识到他们想骗我们，可能我们不应该和他们做生意。

　　Sean: Relax. This is par for the course with this kind of contract. They try to sneak in all kinds of things and it’s our job to find them. We just have to be vigilant, that’s all.

　　肖恩：放轻松。想这种合同很常见。他们想要做那些偷鸡摸狗的事，我们的工作就是要找到他们，我们要做的就是要保持警惕，就是这样。

　　Barbara: Do you think this is going to take much longer? They’re waiting in the other room to finalize the agreement.

　　芭芭拉：你觉得还用很久吗?他们在别的房间等着签约呢。

　　Sean: It’ll take as long as it takes. What do you think that cot is for?

　　肖恩：该用多长时间就用多长时间。不然你以为那张小床是做什么用的?