老闆的要求
Mark is a nurse. He just got back from work and his roommate, Will, is watching the news.
馬克是護理師。他剛下班回來，他的室友威爾正在看新聞。
Will: Hey, how was work today?
威爾：嘿，今天工作怎麼樣？
Mark: Busy as usual.
馬克：和往常一樣忙。
as usual一如以往
Will: Do you still have enough medical supplies?
威爾：醫院還有足夠的醫療物資嗎？
Mark: Yeah, I think we still have plenty of supplies. Why do you ask?
馬克：嗯嗯，還很夠。怎麼了？
plenty of很多=a lot of
Will: I was watching a TV show talk about some Chinese company looting the medical supplies in Australia.
威爾：我正在看一個電視節目在說一家中資公司在澳洲搜刮醫療物資。
Mark: Wow, that doesn’t sound good.
馬克：哇，聽起來很嚴重。
Will: You bet. This Chinese real-estate company asked their employees to buy up all the gloves, face masks, and other medical supplies in Sydney, to ship to China.
威爾：沒錯，這家中國房地產公司要求員工在雪梨大量購入手套、口罩和其他醫療用品，然後運往中國。
real-estate房地產employee(n.)員工buy up大量買進ship(v.)運送
Mark: That’s horrible.
馬克：太可怕了。
horrible(adj.)糟糕的、可怕的
Will: The show also said that this did not just happen in Australia. Other Chinese companies are buying up medical supplies around the world.
威爾：節目還說這不只發生在澳洲。其他中資公司也正在世界各地購買所有醫療用品。
around the world世界各地
Mark: That’s worrisome. I hope that the Australian government can do something to stop it.
馬克：太令人擔憂了。我希望澳洲政府能有所作為，阻止這種行為發生。
worrisome(adj.)令人擔憂的government(n.)政府