2021年商务英语听力第17期

1、商务英语听力第17期 The transport strike is off. Lee and Andrea work together to ensure that all orders can be delivered in two days. Malcolm, AndreaHave you heard the news? The strikes off! What? Thats great news. Does that mean well get all our order after all? Well its not as good as that Im afraid. Theyv

2、e already loaded up with the 60% of goods they promised us. But they havent got the capacity to load up the missing 40%, thats going to have to e in 24 hours. 24 hours, eh? Where does that leave us with the production run? Well they are delivering 60% of all packaging items wrappers, boxes, cartons

3、the lot. So we can at least do plete orders of all that 60% and get them shipped out to our customers. Hmm so whos going to have to wait then? Hi Lee. Sorry about that. Did I hear you say we are going to get all of the supplies? : Yes. Well get the first 60% as planned tomorrow. But we wont get the

4、rest until 24 hours later. So, weve still got a problem but it isnt as serious. : Can I do anything to help? Yes I think you can. Why dont you and I look at the orders and see who might be able to wait. Some of the s _ller shops wont want to wait. Theyll buy their goods from someone else if they can

5、t have ours. Lets go to my offi _ if thats all right with you Malcolm? : Well, Andreas Nellies secretary really, but whilst this crisis is on Ive sort of _ndeered her to help us. Nellies got a lot on her plate with the advertising programme and PR of Country Crumbles, so I dont think shell miss Andr

6、ea for an hour or two. So yes, off you go you two. See what you can e up with by way of da _ge limitation we dont want to upset any very important customers, do we? Right, here we are then. : Ive already printed off a couple of copies of the client list. Good thinking Andrea. : And Ive highlighted a

7、ll of the s _ll shops in green, and all our most loyal and regular customers in red. Well they deserve to have their goods on time first of all, dont they? : Can you do the sums, Lee? : Yes, hang on . let me just get to my trusty puter So there we are then. We can send out these 85 orders on time th

8、e day after tomorrow and we can also offer all of the other clients 50% of their order by the end of tomorrow, with the balan _ ing the day after. All of them? Yes, 50% on time and the rest the following day. : Mmm.That doesnt seem too bad does it? Well it should be enough to stop any of them trying

9、 to get their products from another _nufacturer, but the extra transport costs are going to really eat into our _rgins on this order. We could end up with a whacking loss if were not careful. It _y be worth it to keep our good name for reliability and servi _, but on the other hand it _y be worth a

10、few calls to the clients in green to see if any of them can wait for 48 hours till our next regular delivery to them. If so we can really cut back on extra costs. If some . around thirty . clients say yes, well be okay. Well cut the deliveries by half. Shall I start _ some phone calls? Yes, that wou

11、ld be great. Start with the biggest orders. : How you getting on you two? Any suess? Yeah, well I think between us, Andrea and I have nearly cracked this one! Crisis nearly over! Ex _llent! You _ke a good team, you two. Nellie had better watch out or shell be losing her secretary to the Finan _ and

12、Aounts Department. - End - 背单词 商务英语词汇 to put things into a vehicle 把装上车 - the ability to do something 容量，容积 - the collective pro _sses that are involved in _nufacturing a group of similar or related parts 生产运行 - (infor _l, British English) everything 每一样东西 - to take possession of something by for _

13、霸占 - (infor _l, British English) very huge 很大 - something or someone that can be trusted to perform well 可靠性 In Episode 6, Malcolm and Lee are discussing the after-effects of the transport strike and the per _ntage of goods that the packaging pany will be able to deliver. 在这一节当中，Malcolm和Lee讨论了一下运输工

14、_后的后效，以及装运公司可以运输的货物比。 Lee: . Theyve already loaded up with the 60% of goods they promised us. But they havent got the capacity to load up the missing 40%; thats going to have to e in 24 hours. When dealing with figures, there can be some confusion as to how to correctly describe them. 16.5 sixteen p

15、oint five 17.38 seventeen point three eight (not thirty eight) 0.63 zero point six three or nought point six three (British English) 0.05 zero point oh five or nought point oh five Profits rose 11% to $2.7 billion. Profits have gone up from 3 million to 4 million euros. Our business grew by 10% last year. Theres been a decrease in annual sales of 1 million dollars. Last year profits stood at 2.5 million pounds.