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English Correspondence of Business
Chapter One
Basic Knowledge of Business Letter Writing
Section Nine
Exercises
缁冧範
I. Translate the following expressions into English:
Keys:
1.Commercial Councellor
2.import and export
3.export list
4. enquiry
5.sample
6. price list
7.catalogue
8. Chamber of Commerce
9. market price
10. agreement
11.clients/customers
12. commodities fair
13. competitive price
14. EMP(European Main ports)
15. deal exclusively
16. manufacturer
17. article number
18. delivery
19. specification
20. trial order
II. Please improve the following sentence to them more idiamotic
Keys:
1. We are sending you the information you asked for in your letter of June 4.
2. We have received your letter of May 10.
3. We are pleased to tell you that your Order 167 was dispatched yesterday.
4. We sent you this morning our latest catalogue you requested in your letter of
May 5.
5. We hope you will consider our proposals.
6. We hope to hear from you soon.
7.You
informed
us
in
your
letter
that
you
could
not
offer
us
Gallnuts
as
they
were out of stock.
8. In reply to your letter of the 23red last month, we are pleased to confirm the
following order.
9. Please take note of the
Lot
Number of bales
so that the parcel
may
not
be
mixed up on landing.
10. Samples will be sent and offer made upon receipt of your specific enquiry.
11. In reply to your letter 23
rd
May, we regret to inform you that we are now not
in a position to offer you the quantity as required.
12. Thank you for your quotation dated September 5, 2007. We intend to place a
trial order with you.
13. You will no doubt ope the relevant L/C at the end of May.
14. We feel sure that you will be entirely satisfied.
15. Will you please send us your latest catalogue and pricelist?
16. We wish you could effect insurance on the goods with PICC.