外贸英语话题王第43期:拟定签订协议

 　　Draft and sign an agreement 拟定签订协议

　　Good morning,Mr Zhan.  张先生，早上好。

　　I wonder whether you have got an answer from your superior. 我想知道您有没有得到上级的答复。

　　Yes ,we had meting¹ about it yesterday afternoon. 得到了。我们昨天下午专门为此事开了个会。

　　What's the answer? 结果如何？

　　We decided² that we could agree to your price,but we are a big worried about the slow delivery. 我们认为可以接受你方的价格，但是我们有点担心你们的交货很慢。

　　Let me see.  我看看。

　　I quoted your delivery in three months, didn't I? 我报给你们的交货时间是三个月，是吗？

　　Yes, but we hope that the wool could reach us as soon as possible. 对，但我们希望羊毛越早到越好。

　　I thought you would be worried about it.  我也料到你们会为此事担心，

　　So I rang Auckland last night.  因此我昨天晚上给奥克兰打了个电话。

　　As you are our biggest customer, they agreed to ship the order on the first vessel³ available that will leave Auckland next month. 由于你是我们的最大买主，他们同意将你方订货装运第一艘下个月从奥克兰开出的船只。

　　Good, if you agree we'll draft the agreement right away and sign it then. 那好，如你同意的话，我们便可以拟定协议然后签订。

　　By all means. 完全同意。

1 meting   

v.（对某人）施以，给予（处罚等）( mete的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The manager was strict and fair in meting out rewards and punishments. 经理赏罚严明。 来自互联网
• Doris Crockford. Mr. Potter. I can't believe I'm meting you at last. 我叫桃瑞丝。韦斯莱。波特先生。我真不敢相信，总算见到您了。 来自互联网

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。