實(shí)用外貿(mào)口語(yǔ)精選系列情景系列182:市場(chǎng)調(diào)研之質(zhì)量調(diào)查

Quality Research 質(zhì)量調(diào)查

A: Good morning, can I speak to Mrs. Smith?

早上好，我能和史密斯太太講話嗎?

B: Speaking please. This is Mrs. Smith.

請(qǐng)講。我就是史密斯太太。

A: Oh, hello. Mrs. Smith, I'm market surveyor from China Anycall. You bought a cellular phone from our company on August 14th, didn't you?

你好，史密斯太太。我是中國(guó)三星公司的市場(chǎng)調(diào)查員。你在8月14日購(gòu)買了我們公司的一部手機(jī)，對(duì)嗎?

B: Yes, that's right.

是的。

A: What do you think of it since you've started to use it?

從開(kāi)始使用，你覺(jué)得它怎么樣啊?

B: Er... Generally speaking, it's not bad.

嗯，總體來(lái)說(shuō)，還不錯(cuò)。

A: Any suggestions for us?

有沒(méi)有什么意見(jiàn)呢?

B: Hmm... The battery of this cellular phone seems to be exhausted quite easily. Yesterday I made three calls, no more than 60 minutes, and it ran out. How surprising!

嗯……這部手機(jī)的電池好像一下子就用完了。我昨天打了三個(gè)電話，總共通話時(shí)間不到60分鐘，就沒(méi)有電了，真是奇怪。

A: I'm sorry to hear that. For this problem, we'll send an engineer to your home within two couples of days to fix that. Is that OK?

我很抱歉聽(tīng)到這個(gè)消息。我們將在四天之內(nèi)派一名工程師到你家去解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題，行嗎?

B: Very good. Thanks. I'm looking forward to that.

太好了，謝謝。我待著。

A: Thank you very much for your precious advice. We'll do as much as we can. Bye.

謝謝你對(duì)我們產(chǎn)品的支持。我們將竭盡我們所能。再見(jiàn)。

B: Bye.

再見(jiàn)。

第 2 頁(yè)：重點(diǎn)講解

1.look forward to something/doing someting 欣然待某事物

We're so much looking forward to seeing you again.

我們非常待再見(jiàn)到你。

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

我們盼望著不久能聽(tīng)到您的回音。

If you do, after the first such evening out, you will certainly look forward to the next!

如果能做到這樣，初次嘗過(guò)甜頭之后，你就一定會(huì)很待下一次的晚宴了!

2.ran out v. 耗盡;拋棄

耗盡：

When the food ran out, they subsisted on lamp oil and sulfur-tainted water until their eventual rescue.

當(dāng)食物耗盡時(shí)，他們就靠喝燈油以及被硫磺污染過(guò)的水苦苦支撐，最終成功獲救。

Such a short distance would raise the possibility the pilot ran out of fuel.

如此短的距離即墜毀，可能是因?yàn)轱w機(jī)燃油已經(jīng)耗盡。

拋棄：

He ran out on his own responsibility, deserting his wife and son.

他拋棄了妻兒，背棄了自己的責(zé)任。

Originally I have for you is it just using value. Ran out, they abandoned, what am I?

原來(lái)我對(duì)你來(lái)說(shuō)只是擁有利用價(jià)值。用完了，就拋棄， 你當(dāng)我是什么?