在商务会议上常用的30个口语句型-1

１、Showing interest/surprise

Really?

I’m surprised to hear that.

Do you? /Did you? /Have you?

２· Asking follow-up questions

What did you think of…?

When are you going to…?

How do you feel about…?

３· Using the speaker’s words in a follow-up question

So the meeting’s been postponed until next March.

Next March?

４．Letting of invitation

The following phrases are useful for formal written invitations.

５· Inviting/Offering

We should like to invite you…

We should be very pleased if you could…

We would be delighted if you could…

６· Thanking

Thank you (very much) for your (kind) invitation to…

It was very kind of you to invite me to…

I was delighted to receive your invitation to…

７· Accepting

I would be very pleased to …

I should be delighted to…

８· Declining

Unfortunately, due to… I am unable to…

９．Describing duties and responsibilities

The following phrases are used for talking about responsibilities.

My job is to…

I’m responsible for…

My job involves…

In this job you have to…

９．Report writing

The following phrases are useful when writing reports.

· Introduction

The aim/purpose of this report is to…

This report sets out to…

This report aim to…

１０· Conclusion

It was decided/agreed/felt that…

No conclusions were reached regarding…

It was concluded that…

１１· Recommendations

We would recommend that…

It is suggested that…

It is proposed that…

１２· Asking for information

We can ask for information using a fixed phrase followed by a noun.

I’d like to know about availability.

What about…?

Can you tell me about…?

１３· Checking information

We can use the following phrases for checking information.

Sorry, I didn’t get that. Could you say that again?

Sorry, did you say…?

１４．Suggesting

The following phrases are useful when we make suggestions.

Let’s…

Why don’t we…?

How/what about…?

I think we should…

Perhaps we could…

Couldn’t we…?

If we…we could/should…

１５．Making presentations

The following phrases are used when making presentations.

１６· Referring to visuals

If you’d like to look at the screen, you’ll see…

As you can see…

１７．Expressing hindsight

We can talk about past mistakes in the following ways.

With hindsight, we should have/could have…

What we should have/could have done is…

If we’d…, we wouldn’t have…