销售商务会谈的场景会话(2)
A: You know, packing has a close bearing on sales.
B: Yes, it also affects the reputation of our products. Buyers always pay great attention to packing.
A: We wish the new packing will give our clients satisfaction.
- 大家都知道，包装直接关系到产品的销售。
- 是的，它也会影响我们产品的信誉，买主总是很注意包装。
- 我们希望新包装会使我们的顾客满意。
A: How are the shirts packed?
B: They're packed in cardboard boxes.
A: I'm afraid the cardboard boxes are not strong enough for ocean transportation.
- 衬衫怎样包装?
- 它们用纸板箱包装。
- 我担心远洋运输用纸板箱不够结实。
A: From what I've heard, you're already well up in shipping1 work.
B: Yes, we arrange shipments to any part of the world.
A: Do you do any chartering?
- 据我所知，你方对运输工作很在行。
- 是的，我们承揽去世界各地的货物运输。
- 你们租船吗?
A: How do you like the goods dispatched, by railway or by sea?
B: By sea, please. Because of the high cost of railway transportation, we prefer sea transportation.
A: That's what we think.
- 你方将怎样发运货物，铁路还是海运?
- 请海运发货，铁路运输费用太高，我们愿意走海运。
- 我们正是这么想的。
A: When can you effect shipment? I'm terribly worried about late shipment.
B: We can effect shipment in December or early next year at the latest.
A: That's fine.
- 你们什么时候能交货?我非常担心货物迟交。
- 我们最晚在今年十二月或明年初交货。
- 那很好。
扩展：商业英文书信中所使用的词语
(1)贵函
Your letter; Your favour; your esteemed2 letter; Your esteemed favour; Your valued letter; Your valued favour; Your note; Your communication; Your greatly esteemed letter; Your very friendly note; Your friendly advice; Yours.
(2)本信，本函
Our (my) letter; Our (my) respects; Ours (mine); This letter; these lines; The present.
(3)前函
The last letter; The last mail; The last post; the last communication; The last respects(自己的信); The last favour(来信)
(4)次函
The next letter; The next mail; The next communication; The letter following; the following.
(5)贵函发出日期
Your letter of (the) 5th May; Your favour dated (the) 5th June; Yours of the 3rd July; Yours under date (of) the 5th July; Your letter bearing date 5th July; Your favour of even date(AE); Your letter of yesterday; Your favour of yesterday's date; Your letter dated yesterday.
(6)贵方来电、电传及传真
Your telegram; Your wire; Your cablegram(从国外); Your coded wire(密码电报); Your code message; Your cipher3 telegram; Your wireless4 telegram; Your TELEX5; Your Fax.
(7)贵方电话
Your telephone message; Your phone message; Your telephonic communication; Your telephone call; Your ring.
(8)通知
(Noun)
Advice; Notice; Information; Notification; Communication; A report; News; Intelligence; Message.
(Verb)(通知，告知)
To communicate (a fact) to; To report (a fact) to...on; To apprise6 (a person) of; To let (a person) know; To acquaint (a person) with; To intimate (a fact) to; To send word; to send a message; To mail a notice; to write (a person) information; To give notice(预告); To break a news to(通知坏消息); To announce(宣布).
(9)回信
(Noun)
An answer; A reply; A response.
(Verb)
To answer; To reply; To give a reply; To give one's answer; To make an answer; To send an answer; To write in reply; To answer one's letter.
(特此回信)
Reply to; Answering to; In answer to; In reply to; In response to.
(等候回信)
To await an answer; To wait for an answer.
(收到回信)
To get an answer; To favour one with an answer; To get a letter answered.
(10)收讫，收到
(Noun)
Receipt(收到); A receipt(收据); A receiver(领取人，取款人); A recipient7(收款人)
(Verb)
To receive; To be in receipt of; To be to (at) hand; To come to hand; To be in possesion of; To be favoured with; To get; To have; To have before (a person); To make out a receipt(开出收据); To acknowledge receipt(告知收讫).