2017年bec初級商務(wù)英語口語：解決方案的提出

　　英文正文

　　Raymond: What the heck is going on here?Howcould we be so completely in the dark about theserumors until now? J

　　onathan: There've been a lot of stories that factories in Eastern Europe are using second-ratematerials to save costs.

　　Raymond: We've all heard those stories, but how were they linked with us? Can you clarify theissues?

　　Nina: Some people say that some local middlemen knew all about these things. They didn'treport it because the factories gave them extra money. Our local middleman was one of them.When people learned about the stories, most thought that we must have known about theproblems too.

　　Raymond: My Lord!! Jonathan, what's our best course of action here? You're sure that we'renot using cheap materials anymore, aren't you?

　　Jonathan: I've been to all of the factories there; no second-rate materials that I could see. Itcould be they're still secretly working with other factories, though. I'll do some more checking.

　　Raymond: Even if we didn't know, people would still think it's our fault for not checkingenough. And then we'll be in big trouble.

　　Nina: Let me put that another way. If sales get any worse we could go belly up very quickly.What we have to do is quite clear. We need to start some damage control on ourpublicimage... right away.

　　句型總結(jié)

　　●　 請求詳細(xì)說明

　　1. Can you clarify the issues?

　　2. Can you tell us more about the situation?

　　3. Can you give us more detail on what has happened?

　　4. Could you please explain the present situation?

　　"clarify"是‘闡明;澄清’;"issue"是‘議題’。這句話的意思是要請他人詳細(xì)說明事件的來龍去脈。如果口氣較嚴(yán)厲的話，則隱含強(qiáng)烈責(zé)怪與憤怒的態(tài)度。本課中是老板對下屬所言，沒有在句尾加"please"，但其實(shí)加一個‘請’字會比較禮貌些。

　　●　 征詢建議

　　1. What's our best course of action (here)?

　　2. What are our options here?

　　3. What avenues do we have open here?

　　4. What courses of action are open to us?

　　"course"是‘方針;路線’;"action"為‘行動’;"best course of action"就是‘最有利的行動、最佳做事方向’。這句型是問‘該采取什么行動才最有利’。此句型用于揭露問題之后，請大家共同腦力激蕩，想出最好的辦法。如果要請某人發(fā)言，則可在問號之前加上此人的姓名。

　　●　 結(jié)論性的建議

　　1. What we have to do is quite clear.

　　2. What we need to do is evident.

　　3. What we must do is obvious.

　　4. What we should do is easy to see.

　　這句話是說‘當(dāng)務(wù)之急已清楚地擺在眼前了’，口氣堅定，有強(qiáng)調(diào)重要性的意思。這個句子強(qiáng)調(diào)所提的建議是唯一可行之道。用"what"引導(dǎo)的名詞子句當(dāng)主詞時，后面一定是接單數(shù)動詞，如此句型的"is"。

　　●　More 提出建議

　　與會者提出適切的建議或方案，在會議中是非常重要的部分，畢竟討論會是為了得到最佳方案而開的。而提出建議時的語氣相關(guān)于您對建議本身覺得可行程度的高低。以下列出三種提出建議的口氣：

　　強(qiáng)勢的口氣

　　The only solution is to...

　　I see no other alternative but to...

　　There is no alternative but to...

　　We must...

　　平緩的口氣

　　I recommend that we should...

　　I think we should...

　　My recommendation is that we should...

　　I would suggest that we...

　　We should / we ought to...

　　If I were you I would...

　　推薦性的口氣

　　We could always...

　　It might be a good idea to...

　　Have you thought of...?

　　One solution would be to...

　　What about...?