商务英语口语每天三句半 商业实务 第196期:拒绝还盘

 　　7 拒绝还盘

　　3句英文任你选

　　I appreciate your counter-offer but find it too low.

　　谢谢您的还价，可我觉得太低了。

　　My offer was based on reasonable profit, not on wild speculations¹.

　　我的报价以合理利润为依据，不是漫天要价。

　　This is our rock-bottom price , and we can't make any further reduction.

　　这是我方的最低价格，我们不能再让了。

　　半个句型要记牢

　　be based on -(以……为基础，基于)

　　Tip:

　　固定词组，主要根据语义运用，没有特殊用法。如 This song is based on an old folk tune². (这首歌曲是以一首民间小调为基础的。)还盘还一些术语 withhold³ an offer (停盘)， withdraw an offer (撤盘)， extend an offer (延长报盘)。

1 speculations   

n.投机买卖( speculation的名词复数 )；思考；投机活动；推断

参考例句：

• Your speculations were all quite close to the truth. 你的揣测都很接近于事实。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• This possibility gives rise to interesting speculations. 这种可能性引起了有趣的推测。 来自《用法词典》

2 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

3 withhold   

v.拒绝，不给；使停止，阻挡

参考例句：

• It was unscrupulous of their lawyer to withhold evidence.他们的律师隐瞒证据是不道德的。
• I couldn't withhold giving some loose to my indignation.我忍不住要发泄一点我的愤怒。