When Jessie Dean and Alexandra Sangster met in the summer of 2024, they made a pact(协定，盟约). The two women both ran tea companies – Dean’s Asheville Tea Company in North Carolina and Sangster’s Sarjesa, more than 2,300 miles away in Calgary, Canada – and they pledged(保证，承诺) to support each other if their businesses ever needed it.
2024年夏天，杰西·迪恩和亚历山德拉·桑斯特相遇时，她们立下了一个约定。这两位女性都经营着茶公司——迪恩在北卡罗来纳州的阿什维尔茶公司，桑斯特在2300多英里外加拿大卡尔加里的Sarjesa——她们承诺，如果彼此的业务需要帮助，就会互相支持。
“The first time I spoke to her, I was like(我说（口语中引出话语）), ‘If something happens to your teabag machine, I’ll make your tea,’” Sangster said. “And if something happens to mine, you can make my tea.”
“我第一次和她说话时，我说，‘如果你的茶包机出了什么事，我会帮你做茶，’”桑斯特说。“如果我的出了事，你也可以帮我做茶。”
Neither(两者都不) expected that to become a reality so quickly.
两人都没料到这个约定会这么快成为现实。
Organizing in chaos
在混乱中组织