聽力每日練習 listen 729 Sending A Quote Via Email

1--Melanie, can you help me with something? We need to finalize the account with the Mexican Embassy and, I need some advice on phrasing this letter correctly in English.
 
 
2--Sure Tracy, let me just get my laptop all set.
 
 
 
1--Okay, so... To Whom It May Concern, I am writing.
 
 
 
2--Um, Tracy? I think that' s a little too formal. I know you want to be polite but you've already made contact with them, so in English you can be more relaxed in the opening...
 
 
 
1--Okay, more relaxed. Got it. Hey, Sally, what' s up? It's Tracy here, just.
 
 
 
2--Okay Tracy, now it's too relaxed! You've still got to show some respect. How about starting with "Dear Ms. Cooper, I'm writing to confirm...?
 
 
 
1--Great, okay. "Dear Miss Cooper, I'm writing to confirm the final quotation for the full page back cover color advertisement you requested for the spring issue of Voila magazine".
 
 
 
2--That's great...
 

 
1--"The final costing, including advert design and production, comes to forty-five thousand six hundred RMB. We want payment ten working days before publication or we will cancel the ad. Thanks for..."
 
 
 
2--Woo, okay, back up a second, Tracy. That's too direct. Can I suggest you say, please note that final payment is due two working weeks before publication? You don't want to offend her.
 
 
 
1--Oops, okay. You are right. Then I can just end with "All the best, Tracy".
 
 
 
2--Hmmmm, maybe, but I'd play it safe and just finish with "Yours Sincerely". That's more professional.
 
 
 
1--Oh, Melanie, you are a life saver, thank you!
 
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注解：
 
1.phrasing措辭
2.payment付款
3.professional專業(yè)的
 
 
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譯文：
 
 
1--梅勒妮，能幫我做些事嗎？我們要和墨西哥大使館確定賬戶，然后我需要一些建議，就是有關用英語書寫規(guī)范的問題。
 
2--當然了，特蕾西，先讓我準備好我的筆記本電腦。
 
1--好的，所以說，我要寫給誰呢？
 
2--呃，特蕾西，我想這樣寫有些太正式了。我知道你想表現(xiàn)得很有禮貌，但是我們已經來往過，所以信的開頭可以超微輕松一些。
 
1--好的，要比較輕松。知道了。嗨，莎莉，怎么了？特蕾西也正好在這里。
 
2--好的，特蕾西，現(xiàn)在放松多了吧！不過還是要表現(xiàn)出尊敬。以“親愛的庫伯小姐，我寫信來是為了確認……”這樣為開頭行嗎？
 
1--好，好的。“親愛的庫伯小姐，我寫信給你是為了確認最后的定價，就是春季出版的Voila雜志封面全頁的廣告。
 
2--這樣寫很好……
 
1--最后的花費，包括廣告定價和生產，總共有45600。我們希望在雜志出版的十個工作日之前收到付款，沒收到的話，我們會取消廣告。謝謝……”
 
2--哇，好的，在修改一下，特蕾西。這樣太直接了。如果你不想冒犯的話，我可以這樣說么：“請注意，最后的付款須要在雜志出版的兩個工作周之前支付”。
 
1--哎呀，好的。你是對的。然后我只要以“一切都好，特蕾西”結尾就行了。
 
2--嗯，也許吧。但是保險起見吧，用“你的真誠的”，會顯得更專業(yè)些。
 
1--哦，梅勒妮，你真是我的救星，謝謝啦！