美語情景對話 第161期:飛行工作 Airplane Job
Todd: Alexandra, you worked at an airport before. You said you worked in Aviation.
Alexandra, 你之前在機場工作。你說你是做航空業的。
Alexandra: Yes, my previous job was write contracts for an aviation company and we bought and sold airplanes and aircraft engines, so we did a lot of marketing and leasing and speaking to people from different countries, and airlines wanting to buy equipment, so a lot of negotiations.
是的，我之前的工作是在一家航空公司籤合同，我們公司買賣飛機以及飛機引擎。所以我們公司做營銷，租賃還與來自不同國家的人進行交談，而且航空公司想要買設備，所以還會有很多談判。
Todd: Can you explain what leasing is?
你能解釋一下什麼是租賃嗎？
Alexandra: Leasing is when our company owns a piece of equipment, either an airplane or an engine and a customer has a need, for example, if their airplane has to do some maintenance, and they need a replacement, then we will let them use our airplane for a certain amount of months, like you rent a car, same thing, same idea.
租賃就是我們公司會有很多設備，當顧客需要一架飛機，或者一個引擎的時候，如果他們的飛機需要維護，或者說是需要更換，我們將會讓他們先用我們飛機幾個月，跟你租輛車是一樣的，相同的事情相同的道理。
Todd: Oh, wow. And you lease not only the plane but engines as well?
哦，哇。那你的租賃中不僅是租飛機還租引擎？
Alexandra: Sometimes you have an airplane that's delayed at the airport because of some reason and they need to swap an engine out, or whatever.
有時候如果你的航班在機場因爲某些原因晚點了，他們就需要交換引擎或者是其他的一些事情。
Todd: Right before the plane takes off, they sometimes switch engines?
就在飛機起飛的時候，他們總是會換引擎？
Alexandra: They'll take the passengers off and put them on another plane cause it takes a lot longer than the 10 or 15 minute turnaround, but, you will have, it's more an emergency type of situation, so they'll take the engine off, and it might be and overnight deal so we go ahead and furnish a replacement engine until they can move that plane back to where it belongs or have the engine repaired.
他們會讓乘客先下飛機然後去搭乘另一班。換引擎的時候會多於10或15分鐘，但更多時候還會突發緊急狀況，所以他們會關掉引擎。之後就可能會有一場連夜交易，我們要去給他們配備一個替代品直到他們能將飛機歸回原位或者是修好引擎。
Todd: So can you lease a pilot?
那你能租用飛行員嗎？
Alexandra: You can, yes, you can lease a crew. Yes! It's called a wet lease, and we used to do dry leases meaning we only provided the equipment but a wet lease includes a full crew that will fly the airplane, flight attendants, etc.
可以，是的，你可以租借機組成員。那叫是租賃。我們過去常常做幹租賃，那意味着我們只提供設備而溼租賃包括完整的機組以及飛機乘務員等等。
