Clerk: Good evening, Mr. Lee and thank you for choosing our airline. We have just discovered that this flight is overbooked. Would you like to volunteer to give up your seat?
Mr. Lee: Overbooked? Give up my seat? I don’t understand.
超額預(yù)定?放棄自已的座位?我不明白。
Clerk: From time to time we have a situation in which there are more passengers than there are seats on the aircraft. That’s overbooked.
有時(shí)我們會(huì)出現(xiàn)乘客比座位多的情況。這就是超額預(yù)定。
Mr. Lee: I know what overbooked is, I just don’t understand how that could happen?
我知道什么是“超額預(yù)定”。我只是不明白怎么會(huì)發(fā)生這樣的事。
Clerk: Actually it’s a common practice to overbook, as passengers often don’t take their flight as scheduled. Most of the time there is no problem but today, more passengers arrived than we have seats, so we really are overbooked.
Clerk: Well, first we ask for volunteers. If someone like yourself volunteers, they receive a free round trip ticket to be used within one year. If no one volunteers we just have to select someone.