個別添削

英日翻訳コンテスト

The New York Times Feb. 23, 2023
見出し	How One Ukrainian Company Survived, and Thrived, Through a Year of War
本文	It was exactly a year ago, and the Ukrainian pet food maker Kormotech had concluded its annual meeting. The mood was buoyant. Business was booming, the factory was running 24/7, and sales were projected to grow by double digits. “We had a beautiful budget,” Rostyslav Vovk, the company’s chief executive and founder, recalled almost dreamily. The next morning, air sirens sounded. Russia had invaded. Mr. Vovk called his top managers to meet at a nearby hotel, avoiding the company’s windowed seventh-floor headquarters in Lviv. They had a plan for what had been considered a very unlikely risk — Russian aggression — but it soon proved wholly inadequate. “We were not ready,” Mr. Vovk said. He closed the plant. Raw materials couldn’t get into the country, and deliveries headed abroad couldn’t get out. Staff from the besieged eastern part of the country needed to be evacuated. Employees were joining the military. And the company’s biggest export market, Belarus, was a close ally of Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president. “We would make decisions,” Mr. Vovk said of that first week after the invasion, “and then the next morning, we would change all the information.”

添削付きで応募された方はログインしてご覧ください。

英日翻訳コンテスト