賴世雄英語書信通Unit 53：向友人借款函

向友人借款函

August 19, 2005

Dear Richard,

Sorry I haven’t written you lately. I’ve been extremely busy with work over the past few months. I simply haven’t been able to find the time to write you.

I have been working on a number of potentially lucrative business deals. As a matter of fact, I am on the verge of making a very substantial sum of money. The only difficulty is that I am having a cash flow problem at the moment. I have taken out several loans, but I am still $6,000 short. I wonder if I can prevail on you to help me out. If you can loan me the money, I guarantee you that I’ll pay you back by the end of the year, and I’ll add another $2,000 as interest, since once these deals go through, I’ll have it made.

Sincerely yours,

Harry Smith

親愛的理查：

抱歉我最近沒有寫信給你。過去幾個月以來我工作非常的忙。根本找不出時間寫信給你。

我一直從事于一些具潛力而有利可圖的買賣。事實上，我即將賺大錢。目前唯一的困難是我周轉(zhuǎn)不靈。雖然我已獲得了幾筆貸款，但仍不足六千元。我不知道我是否可說服你幫我忙。如果你能借我這筆錢，我保證會在年底時還你錢，而我會另外給你兩千元利息，因為一旦我完成這些交易，我就變有錢了。

哈利?史密斯　敬上

2005年8月19日

字詞解說：

1. extremely 非常地

例:It would be extremely difficult to do this task alone.

(獨自做這件工作會非常困難。)

2. potentially 有潛力地

3. lucrative 有利可圖的

例:Marketing can be a lucrative career if you have the right kind of personality.

(如果你個性合適的話，做營銷是個有利可圖的職業(yè)。)

4. deal 交易&. vi.處理，交易

deal with…處理…

deal in…做……買賣

例:Can you deal with this problem

(你能處理這問題嗎?)

The gangster deals in drugs and illegal weapons.

(那個歹徒從事毒品和非法武器的買賣。)

5. As a matter of fact, S+V事實上，……

=In fact，S+V

例:Yes, I know Tony. As a matter of fact, I saw him

yesterday.

(是的，我認識東尼。事實上，我昨天才看到他。)

6. be on the verge of+N/V-ing瀕臨……的邊緣

verge 邊緣

例:Mr. Smith was on the verge of telling Jenny about his wife' s problem when his wife kicked him under the

table.

(史密斯先生正要告訴珍妮他太太的問題，這時他太太在

桌下踢了他一下。)

7. substantial [ sab'stxn f al} a.大量的，相當(dāng)?shù)?/p>

例:A substantial reward has been offered for information that can help solve the case.

(能提供情報幫忙解決該案子者可獲得很大一筆酬金。)

8. cash flow現(xiàn)金流轉(zhuǎn)

9. take out a loan獲得貸款

loan 貸款&. vt.借/貸給(=lend)

例:The couple took out a loan to buy an apartment.

(那對夫妻獲得了買公寓的貸款。)

I wouldn't loan him your car if I were you.

(如果我是你，就不會把車子借給他。)

10. be+金錢+short尚差若干錢

例:I want to buy that apartment , but I’m NT$500，000 short.

(我想買那間公寓，但我尚差五十萬元臺幣

11. prevail on sb說服某人

prevail 說服(與介詞on并用)

例:Susie prevailed on Greg to give her a ride home.

(蘇西說服葛瑞載她回家。)

12. help sb out幫某人忙

例:Do you think he' 11 be willing to help us out?

(你認為他肯幫我們忙嗎?)

13. guarantee 保證，擔(dān)保

例:The salesman guaranteed that the customer would be satisfied with the product.

(推銷員保證該顧客將會滿意該產(chǎn)品

14. interest 利息

15. go through(交易等的)完成

例:It will take a few weeks for your application to go through.

(你的申請需要幾個禮拜的時間才會好。)