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
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