容易被人误解的外贸词语
看商业信函的时候有没有疑惑过?比如confirm明明是"确认"嘛，什么时候成了"保兑"了?英语中的一词多义常常让人一头雾水，商务英语中更是如此。接下来，小编给大家准备了容易被人误解的外贸词语,欢迎大家参考与借鉴。
容易被人误解的外贸词语
1. confirm
例一：
We'd like to inform you that our counter sample will be sent to you by DHL by the end of this week. Please confirm it ASAP so that we can start mass production.
很高兴通知您，我们的回样将于本周末用特快专递给您。
例二：
Payment will be made by a 100% confirmed, irrevocable Letter of Credit, available by sight draft。
付款方式为 100% 即期，保兑，不可撤消信用证。
注解：在第一个句子中，confirm 的意思是"确认"。在第二个句子中，confirmed L/C 应翻译为"保兑信用证"，即指一家银行所开的由另一家银行保证兑付的一种银行信用证。
2. negotiable
例一：
Part-time barman required. Hours and pay negotiable.
招聘兼职酒吧侍者，工作时间和薪水面议。
例二：
This Bill of Lading is issued in negotiable form, so it shall constitute title to the goods and the holder1, by endorsement3 of this B/L.
所签发的提单为可转让的。故只要在提单上背书，便确定了货物和持票人的所有权。
注解：在第一句话中，negotiable 的意思是"可商议的";在第二句话中的意思则是可转让的"。"可转让提单" 经过背书后即可将所有权转让给他人。值得注意的是，negotiating bank 则是议付银行，即购买或贴现汇票的银行。
3. endorse2
例一：
Our products have been endorsed4 by the National Quality Inspection5 Association.
我们的产品为全国质量检查协会推荐产品。
例二：
Drafts must be accompanied by full set original on board marine6 bill of lading made to order，endorsed in blank, marked right, prepaid.
汇票必须附有全套印有"货物收讫"字样的正本海运提单，凭指示、空白背书，并写明"运费已付"。
注解： 在第一个句子中，endorse指用过某种产品后感到满意，并通过媒体介绍给公众。而第二句中的endorsed in blank是指背书人endorser 只在票据背面签上自己的名字，而不注明特定的被背书人(endorsee)。
4. average
例一：
If a particular cargo7 is partially8 damaged, the damage is called particular average.
如果某批货是部分受损我们称之为"单独海损"。
例二：
It's obvious that the products are below average quality.
很明显，这批产品的品质是中下水平。
注解：在第一个句子中，particular average 意思是"单独海损"，是指在保险业中由于海上事故所导致的部分损失。第二个句子中average是指"平均的"。
5. tender
例一：
Under the CIF, it is the seller's obligation to tender the relative documents to the buyer to enable him to deliver the goods.
在 CIF 价格术语项下的责任是向买方递交有关单证，使其能在货物到达后提取货物。
例二：
He became as happy as if his tender for building a mansion9 had been accepted.
他欣喜若狂，好象他承办大厦筑的投标被接受了。
注解： 商务英语中的重要条款用词非常正规，第一句话中，tender 是用作动词，相当于 give。而在第二句中，tender 是用作名词，意思是"投标"。
扩展：怎样与同事相处-乐于助人
Office protocol1 can make it different for one employee to ask anther for help. While no one likes the shirker who never seems to be able to quite get his own projects finished and turns helplessly to peers for assistance, most will willingly volunteer to lend a hand to someone who has helped him or her.
对于同事间寻求帮助，办公室内的礼节往往起着重要的作用。往往没人愿意帮助那种老是无法完成自己工作，爱偷懒的人;而大多数人还是乐意主动地帮助那些曾经也帮助过自己的同事
IF you know a coworker is working through lunch to collate2 a large client packet, your volunteering to stay and help will be gratefully received and most often returned when it's you who is stuck. I say voluntarily because your offer is not to add up paid overtime3 hours. It is to help a peer in need.
如果知道同事午饭时间还一直忙着校对客户的文件，您主动提出留下来帮助他，会得到他的感激，在你遇到同样的情形时，会得到他的回报。我所指的主动，是因为您的协助是没有加班费的。属于助人于困难时机。
If your offer is accepted, you do not, however, store it away in your mental favor bank or ever remind everyone what a good person you were for helping------you simply hope the favor will be returned when it's you who is overloaded4.
一旦你的好意被接受，不要刻意地老记着或提醒每个人您曾如何地帮助过他们--在你遇到力不从心的情况下总会有人回报你的。
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