VOA 商務(wù)英語:第14課

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Lesson 14
    Dialog 1:
    New words: Jeans(牛仔褲), retail outlet (零售點(diǎn)),guilty as charged(所控屬實(shí)),catalog(樣本)Market penetration(市場滲透力)
    F: Mr. Gomes. Blue Jeans King. Welcome.
    M: what you’ve heard is not true.
    F: It’s not true that you sell more jeans than anyone else?
    M: True, that’s true.
    F: It’s not true that you have more jeans retail outlets than anyone else?
    M: Yes, guilty as charged.
    F: It’s not true that your Jeans catalogs are in every home?
    M: well, almost every home, we don’t have 100% market penetration.
    Q: what does Mr. Gomes sell? ---Blue Jeans.
    Dialog 2:
    new words: Electronic Commerce.電子貿(mào)易,商業(yè)
    F: You don’t have 100% market penetration yet?
    M: Not yet, but we are working on it.
    F: what can I help you toward that goal? What brings you in today?
    M: We want to go global.
    F: You don’t mean more retail outlets?
    M: No, we want to sell on the Internet.
    F: You are talking about E-commerce. (表示再次確認(rèn)自己理解無誤)
    ---We want to get into E-commerce.---You are talking about Internet sales.
    M: Precisely, we want to get into (= go into) E-commerce.
    Q: what do Mr. Gomes want to get into? ----E-commerce.
    Dialog3:
    New words: With access to worldwide web, Cybercafe (能上網(wǎng)的咖啡館)
    F: Electronic Commerce will definitely broaden your market.
    M: At least to market share with access to Computers.
    F: And with access to Worldwide web.
    M: With E-commerce, we can reach more people.
    F: you can access other markets without opening new stores.
    M: Every cybercafé is a store.
    F: That’s true; anyone can walk into a cybercafé and log on (log off)
    M: Point their browsers to our website and buy a pair of jeans.
    Q: Why do Mr. Homes want to get into E-commerce? ---To broaden the market.
    Small talk:---給建議
    ----You ought to (should) take it easy.
    -----Why don’t you take a break?