1.cultural backgroudeg. Most prizefighters,football or baseball players,and other athletes,see the handwriting on the wall every time they compete after they reach the age of 35.It rains like cats and dogs.Beauty is the eye of the beholder.4th Thursday on Nov. Thanksgiving Day----1664 Puritain by "May Flower"Feb.14th   Saint(st.)Valentine

    2.language featuresforeign trade terms(business jargons)complaint=claim course   foot the bill   order   alliteration

she sell the shells on the sea shore.

Mark Twain l835～1910

Ernest Hemingway l899～1961

linguistics

counter-offer 还盘

enquiry 询盘

foreign trade abbneviations 缩写
FOB 离岸价
CIF到岸价
WPA水渍险
D/A

some foreign trade expressions or collocations:

to be in the market for sth.

to see one's way clear to

enclosed please find...

for the attention of sb.

Mike is in hot water----he faild in the final exam.

Our soccer team won the game in a breeze.

connotation

dennotation

函电
letter correspondence correspondent
cable electronic mail

1.the function of business correspondence

to get or to convey business information

to make or accept an offer

to deel with various business