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Business English Unit 1 People Meeting people 1.to be exact 确切的说 e.g. I am from china, Beijing, to be exact. 介绍地方可在后面套个大地方：China, Jiaxing, to be exact, an hour drive from Shanghai. 2. I work for 我在…工作 e.g. I work for IBM. 类似表达：I am in hardware development with Cor. 我在Cor.公司从事软件开发。 Perhaps you’ve heard of them.也许你听说过这家公司。(常用后插语， 用来套近乎) 公司、单位常用复数：We, them… 3.问职业 -What exactly do you do? -I am responsible for quality control. What course do you take? （在学校）单数问专业， 复数问课程。 4. How are things in Sydney? 悉尼的情况（生意/业务）怎么样？ -quite busy / not too bad…生意挺火 -quite slow / not good…生意清淡 5. Did you have a good flight? = How was your flight? 旅途辛苦了！→ small talk 寒暄 与飞机有关：take off 起飞 land 降落 departure/arrival time 飞机离港/到港时间 6.介绍他人 This is… I’d like to introduce… Do you know…? Have you met…? 通常把年轻人介绍给长辈， 把男士介绍给女士， 把下级介绍给上级， 未婚女士介绍给已婚的（已婚的女士地位要高一点） 7.在英语中，名在前姓在后；名为First name, given name, forename， 基督教国家也称Christian name； 姓为Family name, surname, last name. 8.Miss/Mrs/Ms/Mr+姓 现代女性喜欢被叫“Ms+姓”，不知道姓名可以单独用sir/ madam, Miss/Mrs./Ms/Mr.不单独用 9.对有头衔的人， 用“头衔+姓”表示尊敬 e.g. Professor Brown 布朗教授 10.年轻人见面问候比较随意。 -What’s up? / What’s new? -Nothing. / Not much. / Just the same 也可以只重复hey, what’s up然后相互击掌、拥抱、拍肩等。 1.2 Keeping the conversation going 1. “Are you Ms.Novak?” 常用语机场出口处或饭店大厅内等候或者寻找首次见面的来宾。 类似表达：Excuse me, is your name…? 2. “It’s nice to finally meet you – to put a face /sound to a name.” 把名字/声音和人对上号 3. 问来自城市的哪里 -Do you live in Porto itself? 你住在Porto市内吗？ -No, I live in to the north. itself与proper 意思相同， 表示“市内” 类似表达：Which part of the state are you from? Whereabouts in Shanghai are you living? Where are you from in Zhejiang? centered China 华东地区 4. Is this your first trip to…? 5. It seems like a nice place.第一印象还不错 6. How long are you staying in…/here? 你准备呆多久？（-ing表示打算） 7. Where are you staying? 在酒店可以表示问住几楼？ Finding out about people Subscription n.订阅 v. Subscribe subscriber n.订户 电话或Internet 用户也叫subscriber newsstand price 报摊零售价格，通常比常年订阅的价格高 类似说法：cover price 封面零售价格 BLOCK CAPITA