Деловые приемы и встречи на английском: визиты, сотрудничество и профессиональные контакты - [21]
t) have could I some coffee more, then?
a) Welcome Mr Meng Zu to your office
b) Greeting
it Yourself
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c) Accept greeting — offer cup of coffee
| f) Accept apology gracefully |
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| e) Apologise — Managing Director not available for meeting |
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Do you want me to telephone Bill and Jane?
\ Do you want me to telephone Bill and Jane?
. Do you want me to telephone Bill and Jane?
. Do you want me to telephone Bill and Jane?
j) No, the boss does.
) >\fell, you could write a letter. ) No, just Bill I think.
Don’t worry, I’ll do it.
fl Vk didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th. We didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th. . We didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th. , We didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th. * We didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th. . We didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th. We didn’t promise to deliver all the goods on March 14th.
) But we never talked about a dispatch date.
) Yes, you did.
I Before would be all right, but not after.
) But the 16th will be too late.
) At least you said you would.
Wfe can’t possibly wait until April!
) But a part-delivery is no good to us.
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Dialogue
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
i debriefing after the meeting
Srnest: What did you think of the meeting?
iVilliam: Well, to be honest, I couldn’t really fathom what was going on. There were so
many complicated words that I didn’t understand, and I’m not sure that the engineer really knew what he was talking about himself.
Ernest: I rather agree with you.
William: Do you think he is English or American? That might explain some of the mis
understandings — there are a lot of language differences, you know. On top of that, he really wasn’t very clear and I’m sure I didn’t catch everything.
Ernest: Yes, and it was difficult to hear what he said sometimes. Also he left out a lot of
words while he was talking. I’ve heard about ellipses in English, but I’ve never seen it that bad! When you are reading you have time to work out what a new word might be in its context, or look things up in a dictionary. I’m sure that \ didn’t grasp a lot of what he was trying to say.
William: You want to be careful using a dictionary, though, it’s very easy to misinterpret
a word. I have made up my own lexical list which I use for quick and easy reference.
Ernest: That’s a good idea. You might be able to solve another problem for me. There
are so many words in English which are similar to French but mean totally the opposite, I can’t get those into my head.
William: Oh, you mean deceptive cognates?
Ernest: There you go, that’s just what I meant before. What does that mean when it’s
at home?
William: I think you’d probably call it “false friends”. You should make yourself a list of
the main ones, in their context, and remember them that way. I think we’re getting away from the subject.
Ernest: Yes, let’s get back to the point. We were talking about the meeting.
William: Have you seen this? To make things worse, these are the diagrams about the
new machine he wants to install. I can’t make head or tail of them.
Ernest: “Ours is not to reason why... ” Perhaps we should ask the engineer to come
and see both of us so that he can explain more clearly.
William: Yes, we could ask him to speak up, speak slowly, speak clearly, use simple lan
guage if possible, what his nationality is, whether he really knows what he wants to do...
Ernest: What are you leading up to?
William: We’re going to look rather half-baked.
Ernest: Like they say, “There’s none so deaf as those won’t hear”!
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|Не didn’t know what he was talking fjabout.
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I k couldn’t fathom what was going on.
I can’t make head or tail of it.
[to make things worse
What does that mean when it’s at
Home?
опускать слова
считать/ изучать
трудно понять
неверно истолковать слово
различия в языке
ложные друзья
Он был не слишком внятен.
Он не знал своей темы.
Я не понял.
Я не много понял из того, что он пытался сказать.
Я не все понял.
Я не смог уловить смысл того, что происходит.
Я в этом ничего не понимаю!
чтобы все усложнить
Что же это все-таки значит?
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I think we’re getting away from the subject.
Let’s get back to the point. What are you leading up to? JFhere’s none so deaf as those jwon’t hear.
Я думаю, что мы удаляемся от темы.
Вернемся к нашим баранам.
К чему вы клоните?
