2012年商務英語中級口語指導：產品線索

 　　M： Here are the leads from last week's exhibit as a trade show. There are about forty or so that are hot. You should contact them immediately，in the next twenty-four hours if you can. The rest are categorized according to potential and interest.You can see we've got our hot stack， our warm stack， our lukewarms， and our cold but not dead stack. F： Haha…… please don't tell me you've got a dead stack. I hate making cold calls……
　　M： Don't worry， most of the leads on mildly interested， if not strongly interested. We've just got to make sure the Hot ones are contacted right away. And even the contacts that for what ever reason aren't prepared to make an order now， they might be interested in the future.Please be conscanciouss about getting a hold of everyone of these leads. We've spent a big chunk of marketing budget to find these people.I don't want our investment to go down the drain. F： Don't worry， I've gotchya covered.這是從上周的貿易展銷會上得到的展品線索。有40個左右的人對我們的產品感興趣。你應該立即與他們取得聯系，盡可能在24小時內完成。其他的按照潛力大小和興趣進行分類。我要告訴你我們已經把這些人分成了最感興趣的，比較感興趣的，有點兒興趣的和稍微有興趣的，但沒有一點兒興趣沒有的。
　　哈哈……請不要告訴我你們有對我們一點兒興趣都沒有的顧客名單。我不喜歡打陌生的推銷電話……
　　別擔心，大部分線索即使沒有很大的興趣也都還是有點兒意思。我們只是一定要確保立即與最感興趣的顧客取得聯系。不管是什么原因，即使那些顧客現在沒有準備訂購我們的產品，他們將來也可能會感興趣。請認真抓好每一條線索。我們花了一大筆銷售預算才找出這些人。我不想讓我們的投資付諸東流。
　　放心，我一定會幫你忙的。
　　categorize：to put people or things into groups according to what type they are 將…分類；把…加以歸類 verb VN ~ sb/sth （as sth）
　　See also： classify Synonym Participants were categorized according to age and sex. 參加者按年齡和性別分組。
　　His latest work cannot be categorized as either a novel or an autobiography. 他最近的作品既不屬于小說也不屬于自傳。
　　order：a request to make or supply goods 訂貨；訂購；訂單 countable uncountable ~ （for sth）
　　I would like to place an order for ten copies of this book. 這本書我想訂購十冊。
　　an order form 訂貨單The machine parts are still on order（= they have been ordered but have not yet been received） 機器零件尚在訂購之中。
　　These items can be made to order（= produced especially for a particular customer） 這幾項可以訂做。（go） down the drain informal（to be） wasted； （to get） very much worse 被浪費掉；變得非常糟糕It's just money down the drain， you know. 你要知道，這是白白丟錢。
　　Safety standards have gone down the drain. 安全標準根本不管用了。