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商务英语口语对话:国际商业的变化之大  

A: It's amazing to me how international business has bee. Take my store for example. On any given day
you will find imported items from more than 20 different countries on our shelves.

B: How many different varieties of products do you import from China?

A: China provides the bulkof our product inventory
for sure. We import more than 40 different items from China. Most of the imports that e out of China are low-grade plastics or toys. Japan produces many electronic exports
Germany produces excellent mechanical exports.

B: Do you import any food items?

A: Generally speaking
food items are difficult to import. Food with the short shelf lifeisliableto spoil in the time it takes to ship from one place to another. The only food items we import are specialty canned or preserved foods. The shelf life is longer for these products.
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Bulk: the main part of something; most of something 主体;大部份

The bulk of the population lives in cities. 大多数人口居住在城市里.
Inventory: all the goods in a shop stock (商店的)存货
库存

The inventory will be disposed of over the next elve weeks. 在未来的十二个星期中将进行清仓处理.
inventory records/control 库存记录╱管理
shelf life: the length of time that food
etc. can be kept before it is too old to be sold (食品等的)货架期
保存期
liable: likely to be affected by something 可能受...影响

You are more liable to injury if you exercise infrequently. 不经常运动就更容易受伤.
Ship: to send or transport somebody/something by ship or by another means of transport 船运;运输;运送

The pany ships its goods all over the world. 公司把货物运往世界各地.
He was arrested and shipped back to the UK for trial. 他被捕后被押解回英国接受审判.
Canned: of food 食物 preserved in a can 罐装的;听装的

canned food/soup 罐装食品╱汤羹

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