来迎接的人走到WS副总裁Mr. White的办公室门口,抬手在门板上轻轻叩了两下:“Mr. White, Director Xie and Director Bai from Dushang are here.”(怀特先生,杜尚公司的谢总和白总来了。)
Mr. White从办公桌后站起来,绕出桌沿,步子沉稳而从容,脸上带着职业性的微笑,朝门口迎了两步:“Mr. Xie, Mr. Bai! Please, come in.”(谢总,白总!请进。)
白总笑着握了握手:“Mr. White,Long time no see.”(怀特先生好久没见了。)
本来应该寒暄几句,聊聊近况,可谢孟渊没有绕弯子。他直视着Mr. White:“Mr. White, the AI project you're meeting this afternoon——is it a startup working on long-form text generation for episodic content?”(怀特先生,您今天下午要见的那个AI项目,是不是一家做长文本生成剧集内容的创业公司?)
白总听见这句话,意外地用余光觑向谢孟渊。
Mr. White愣了一下:“You got that right. The person who contacted us is a Ms. Yu Qianqian. Actually, she mentioned she used to work at your company. Is this a project you're personally interested in, or is she striking out on her own?”(没错。联系我们的人是一位叫庾倩倩的女士。实际上她提到过她曾在贵公司工作过。这是您个人感兴趣的项目,还是她自己出来创业了?)
谢孟渊说:“Neither. But I'd like to sit in on that meeting, if you don't mind.”(都不是。不过我想旁听一下那场会面,如果你不介意的话。)
Mr. White挑了挑眉,看了他两秒,点了点头:“Be my guest. I'll have them wait a bit longer. I'm curious to see where this goes.”(请便。我会让他们多等一会儿。我很好奇这件事会怎么发展。)