[영어] 써먹는 비즈니스 영어 - 사건사고 표현정리

 

이제 영어를 갈무리 할 타임. 가끔 얻어 걸리는 주옥같은 표현들도 좋지만 제자리만 맴도는 영어가 지겹다. 죽이되든 밥이 되든 내 방식으로 밀어부쳐 볼란다. 그 일환으로 이 참에 비즈니스 영어 주요 표현들을 정리한다. '써먹는 비즈니스 영어'는 1)사건사고, 2)의견발표, 3)인사동정 등 세 파트로 나눌 예정이다. 외부의 사건사고가 이에 대한 반응을 요구하고, 단기적으로 이에 대한 의견발표가, 장기적으로로는 지속적인 대내외 행보들이 이어진다는 구성이다. 결과적으로 6개월간 수시로 업데이트를 해 내년초에 세 개의 포스트로 왠만한 비즈니스 실용표현을 커버하는 게 목표.

 

첫 타자는 모든 역사의 출발, '사건사고'다. 인간사에서 최고의 사건사고이란 아무래도 인명사고일거다. 그 다음은 사람은 다치지 않았지만 불법의 영역이 되는 사건사고, 마지막으로 법적 테두리 안에는 있으나 유무형의 피해을 주는 사건 정도 등으로 분류하면 될 듯하다. 우엉우엉

 

 

 

#1. 인명사고

 

 

1-1. 재해

 

"Louisiana Floods Leave At Least 6 Dead", NPR, 160816

#홍수, #피해, #미국, #주정부, #선언, #집, #침수

 

Devastating floods in southern Louisiana have killed at least six people and pushed tens of thousands from their homes.

As the Two-Way reported Sunday, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency over the weekend, describing the flooding as "unprecedented and historic."

More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, saved by teams in high-water vehicles, boats and helicopters. Some were rescued by local emergency workers, the National Guard or the Coast Guard; in other cases, says NPR's Debbie Elliott, ordinary citizens put their boats in the water to save their neighbors.

Craig Cooper, national spokesman for the Red Cross, says more than 10,000 people are housed in shelters across the state, with "no clear expectation for when they'll be able to get back to their homes."

At least five people have died, Eileen Fleming of member station WWNO tells our Newscast unit. The flooding was prompted by an intense deluge of rain that began on Friday.

"From the air, homes looked more like little islands surrounded by flooded fields. Farmland was covered, streets descended into impassable pools of water, shopping centers were inundated with only roofs of cars peeking above the water.

 

 

 

1-2. 인재

 

"Why The Battle For Aleppo Is So Important", NPR, 161004

#시리아, #내전, #반군, #교착, #시민, #사망, #폭격, #구호

 

For two weeks, a battle has raged in Aleppo, generating tragic images of injured civilians amid the rubble.

The city — once the country's most populous and a commercial hub — is a key prize in the civil war. For four years, it has been divided between government and rebel forces and was in effect a military stalemate.

"The battle of Aleppo is the culmination of many years of fighting," says analyst Jennifer Cafarella with the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War. For four years, she says, Assad's forces and regional allies fighting alongside them have planned to recapture the whole of Aleppo city and the surrounding countryside.

More than 300 civilians have died in the last two weeks on the rebel side of the lines, according to the opposition-leaning Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The aid group Doctors Without Borders and U.N. agencies also count hundreds of civilian deaths there. The observatory tallied 15 civilian deaths on the government-held side of the city, killed by rebel shelling.

But the regime has managed to cut off supply lines from Turkey to the rebel area. That means food and medical aid can't get to the opposition enclave, and neither can ammunition. This siege has been in place about a month now.

So how are the rebels responding? They've staged some offensives elsewhere, apparently as diversionary tactics.

 

 

"In Ongoing Rebuilding Of Ground Zero, A Balance Of Remembrance, Resilience", NPR, 160907

#911, #테러, #추모, #복구, #희생자, #모순, #균형

 

Developers have had to balance honoring the dead while reviving some of the most valuable real estate in the world.

"It actually represents a bird about to take off in flight, and that's kind of the rebirth," says Steven Plate, who oversees construction at the World Trade Center for the site's owners, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Still, it's a site burdened with many competing interests that include business owners, politicians, victims' families and tourists.

But she adds that contradiction is required right now at the World Trade Center, as the U.S. continues grappling with Sept. 11's legacy.

 

 

 

#2. 불법행위

 

 

2-1. 형사

 

"The Fine Line Between Countering Security Threats And Racial Profiling", NPR, 160816

#핵, #스파이, #정보보안, #재판, #구속기소, #유죄, #인종차별, #중국

 

In a courtroom in Knoxville, Tenn., the latest legal twist is unfolding in a case involving China — and alleged nuclear espionage.

In Ho's case, he came to the U.S. in 1973 to attend the University of California, Berkeley. This past April, he was charged with violating the Atomic Energy Act — specifically, by using U.S.-based nuclear experts to help China's largest nuclear power company develop and produce "special nuclear material." If convicted, the charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The case is scheduled to go to trial Jan. 24, 2017. In court Tuesday, Ho's lawyer, Peter Zeidenberg of the law firm Arent Fox, argued that Ho should in the meantime be freed on bail.

The judge ordered government prosecutors to identify by Friday any cases in which Chinese-Americans were released on bail and then fled the country, Zeidenberg says.

Zeidenberg declined to discuss other details of Ho's case, because the litigation is ongoing. But in an interview with NPR, he argues that broadly speaking, it fits a pattern of racial discrimination.

Zeidenberg has defended several Asian-American scientists facing espionage-related charges, and he says his clients have been targeted because of their ties to China.

Just this month, Kun Shan "Joey" Chun pleaded guilty to espionage-related charges brought by federal prosecutors. Chun, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, worked for the FBI until his arrest on March 16. An electronics technician, he held a top secret security clearance and had access to classified information. In a statement, the Justice Department said Chun "violated our nation's trust by exploiting his official U.S. government position to provide restricted and sensitive FBI information to the Chinese government." Chun has yet to be sentenced.

All charges against Lee were later dropped, except one — improper handling of restricted data. Some details in the case remain murky to this day, but the presiding judge eventually apologized to Lee for his harsh treatment — and Lee was awarded a $1.6 million settlement.

 

 

2-2. 민사

 

 

 

#3. 기타피해

 

 

3-1. 기능장애

 

"Why The Airline Industry Could Keep Suffering System Failures Like Delta's", NPR, 160809

#운영오류, #IT, #항공, #합병, #통합

 

Delta canceled about 530 flights on Tuesday in addition to about 1,000 canceled a day earlier after a power outage in Atlanta brought down the company's computers, grinding the airline's operation virtually to a halt.

"Because they have to worry so much about safety and security, they are constrained in ways that other businesses aren't," he says. "Delta can't just host its systems on Joe Blow's cloud server somewhere else in the way that another business might be able to do."

He says this was a rare malfunction with a part that is usually reliable. "They had Georgia Power available at the site," Mann says. "They had their own generators and batteries available at the site. But the automated transfer switch seems to have failed in a way that allowed them to use neither of those systems."

The systems are increasingly complex. The computers are interacting with a myriad of outside systems, such as travel agents and Web apps. Plus, with the spate of mergers, various separate systems have had to consolidate.

 

 

"Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 Over Exploding, Burning Batteries", NPR, 160902

#삼성, #제품리콜, #모바일, #문제해결, #영업재개

 

Samsung traced the problem to a flaw in the phone's lithium battery, and issued a voluntary global recall.

"The recall, the first for the new smartphone, comes at a crucial moment in Samsung's mobile business," the AP reports. "Apple is scheduled to announce its new iPhone next week, and Samsung's mobile division was counting on momentum from the Note 7's strong reviews and higher-than-expected demand."

The Galaxy Note 7 has a large screen — some call it a "phablet," part phone, part tablet — and is waterproof. Samsung hopes to resume sales once the battery problems are worked out.

 

 

 

3-2. 과당경쟁

 

"Amid Industry Downturn, Global Shipping Sees Record-Low Growth", NPR, 160820

#해운, #공급과잉, #싸이클, #국제경제, #자촉, #예봉, #출혈, #수익, #운임료

 

The massive container ships that ply the high seas bring us pineapples and mangoes in winter, and computers and cheap t-shirts all year round. But the shipping industry is a volatile, cyclical and ferociously competitive business. There are good years and bad years.

Container ships are vital cogs in the global economy. Jonathan Roach, a container market analyst at Braemar ACM shipbroking in London, says slowing economies in Europe and China are hitting the industry hard.

Porter says this is partly a self-inflicted crisis because many of the companies are over-ordering.

It's the ship owners bearing the brunt, he says — they're hemorrhaging money at the moment.

Because of the glut of ships, freight rates have plummeted over the past year, cutting deeply into profits, says Nils Haupt, the communications director for Hapag-Lloyd, the world's fourth largest container shipping line.

For oil tankers, the situation is even more dire. Earnings at the turn of the year were around $50,000 to $60,000 per day. Bennett, with VesselsValue, says they're now looking at $1,000 a day. "So you can see the situation has gone incredibly sour," he says.