禮節(jié)美語(yǔ)The Art of Conversatione

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陳豪在北京的ABC美國(guó)公司工作。他今天有事去找美國(guó)同事Amy。

(Office ambience)

A：Hi, Chen Hao. How are you today?

C：還好，不過(guò)，我有點(diǎn)兒事想請(qǐng)教你。

A：How can I help you?

C：今天下班，我又要去參加公司的社交活動(dòng)。

A：Where the point is to make business contacts and develop relationships with current or potential clients?

C：沒(méi)錯(cuò)，就是要多認(rèn)識(shí)點(diǎn)兒人，跟客戶搞好關(guān)系。不過(guò)，我還是不太習(xí)慣這種活動(dòng)。

A：What's the problem?

C：自我介紹完，我就不知道該說(shuō)什么了。

A：Well, The first thing is to prepare your conversation starters ahead of time.

C：怎么準(zhǔn)備?。?/p>

A：Find out who will be there so you will know whom you will be seeing.

C：然后呢？

A：Find out as much as you can about the guests. The more information you have about them and their business, the easier it will be to talk to them.

C：可我根本不知道誰(shuí)會(huì)去啊？

A：I suggest you go ask your boss' assistant right now.

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一個(gè)小時(shí)過(guò)后，陳豪和Amy又見(jiàn)面了。

C：Amy, 今天的活動(dòng)是Jepson公司主辦的。

A：I happen to know that Mr. Jepson, the president of the company, loves airplanes. He is a licensed pilot and owns quite a number of small planes.

C：Mr. Jepson自己有飛機(jī)，還有執(zhí)照？太好了，我也喜歡飛機(jī)。

A：Well, see, you have something in common so you shouldn't have any problems talking to him.

C：那其它人呢？

A：Be ready to ask people about themselves. Start your conversations with open-ended questions.

C：Open-ended questions, 那是什么樣的問(wèn)題?。?/p>

A：Those are questions that begin with "how" and "why?" The kinds of questions that people almost have to answer with more than one word.

C：就是要問(wèn)為什么，怎么樣這類(lèi)的問(wèn)題， 是嗎？

A：Right. Stay away from "when," "where" and "what" since it's easy to give short answer to those questions.

C：不要問(wèn)什么時(shí)候，在哪兒，哎呀，太復(fù)雜了。我恐怕記不住。

A：Oh, yes, you can. People like to talk about themselves so long as you continue to listen and act interested, they will continue to talk.

C：做個(gè)好聽(tīng)眾當(dāng)然沒(méi)問(wèn)題。我難道就不需要說(shuō)話嗎？

A：All you really need to do is repeat or comment on something the other person has said. Like with Mr. Jepson, you could ask how many planes he has?

C：他要是說(shuō)25架呢？

A：Then you respond, "So you have 25 of your own airplanes?" That's interesting. Tell me about them." And he'll continue to talk.

C：好主意。我試試看。