1. Excuse me, but aren’t you Mr. Smith from the ABC Trading Company?
对不起，您是ABC贸易公司来的史密斯先生吗？
(1) Excuse me, (but) could you show me the way to the station? 请问，去火车站的路怎么走？
Excuse me for asking the question. 请原谅我问你这个问题。
Excuse me (for) a moment. 请稍等，我一会儿就来。
(2) Aren’t you Mr. Smith from?
当认为对方是某人而又不敢贸然肯定时，可以采用这一提问方法。回答用语为：
Yes, I am.
No, I’m not. I’m afraid you have the wrong person.
2. Allow me to introduce myself. 请允许我自我介绍一下。
与客人初次见面，可以先自我介绍姓名身份，以便交往。自我介绍还可以说：
Let me introduce myself.或者更简单直接地说I’m Zhang Ying from the Textiles Corporation.
如果介绍他人时，则可以说：Allow me to introduce my manage to you.
请允许我将我们经理介绍给您。
Let me introduce you to my manager. 或者May I introduce you to my manager?
请允许我将您介绍给我们经理。I’d like you to meet my manager.
请您见见我们经理。I don’t think you two have met before.
我想你们没见过面吧。
在介绍他人时，一般习惯是1介绍评价给客人，2介绍晚辈给长辈，3介绍男性给女性。
3. How do you do, Mr. Zhang? 您好，张先生。
How do you do? 是初次见面时的问候语，后面常常还可以接着说I’m glad/
Pleased/happy to meet you. 对方的回答也是How do you do?例如：
Paulo: Bill, this is my mother, Mrs. Gray. Mother, Bill O’ Neill.
Mrs. Gray: How do you do, Mr. O’Neill?
Bill: How do you do, Mrs. Gray? I’m pleased to meet you.
4. Let me help you with your luggage. 我来帮你提行李。
Help somebody with something. 在某方面帮助某人
He often helps me with my spoken English. 他经常在英语口语方面帮助我。
Could you help me with my notes, Wang? There are some parts of the report, which are not quite clear to me.
能帮我看看这些笔记吗？王？报告中有些部分我不太清楚。
5. –Did you have a good trip? 旅途愉快吗？
--On the whole, it’s not too bad. 总体而言还不错。
（1） 询问对方旅途情况用语一般有：
Did you have good/pleasant journey?
Have you had a nice trip?
Did you have a nice voyage?（海上航行顺利吗？）
通常回答为：
Yes, I enjoyed very much.
Very pleasant, thank you.
On the whole, it’s not too bad.
No, I’afraid not. It was really and I’m not a good sailor.（路上不太顺利，海浪很大，我又不习惯海上航行。）
（2） on the whole大体上，总的看来
My opinion is on the whole the same as yours. 我的意见大体与你的相同。
On the whole, I like the very much. 总体上说，我很喜欢这次旅程。
6． And I think you must be very tired. 我想你肯定很疲倦了。
Must be 可以用来表示我们对某事确有把握的推测。
There’s the doorbell. It must be John.. 门铃响了，肯定是约翰。
Many must have some trouble: she keeps crying. 玛丽一定有什么事，她一直在哭。
7． Yes I am, rather. 是的，我确实蛮累的。
Rather在这里的意思相当于certainly（当然，确实如此），用于答话之中。
例如：
－Would you like a swim? 你愿意游泳吗？
Rather. 那还用说。
－Will I come to see you? 我来看看你好吗？
－Rather! It would give me much pleasure. 太好了（当然愿意）， 这会使我很开心。
8． But I’ll be all right by tomorrow morning and ready for business. 不过明早我就会恢复过来，可以商谈业务了。
Ready for 准备就绪的
The goods are now ready for packing. 货物已经备妥，可以包装了。
Let’s get ready for the journey. 我们收拾准备上路吧。
9． We’d better start for the hotel. 我们（最好是）动身去旅馆吧。
We’d better=We had better这是一种委婉表示应该去做某事的用语，后面接
不带to 的动词不定式，指现在或将来，但不指过去。
It’s getting late. We’d better start back now. 天色晚了，我们最好现在就回去吧。
You’d better hurry up if you want to catch the 7:30 train. It’s almost seven O’clock now.
你要是想赶7：30的火车，得快点走才行。现在都快七点了。
－let’s take Harry’s car. 咱们坐哈里的车吧。
－No, we’d better not.. 不，还是不坐吧。
