你们通常多久能交货?
B: Delivery would be a month from receipt of yourorder.
收到你方信用证后一个月。
A: Could you effect shipment more promptly?
你们能否提前一点交货呢?
B: I'm sorry to say that we can't advance the time ofdelivery. Getting the goods ready, making out thedocuments and booking the shipping space, all thesetake time.
很抱歉，我们无法提前交货。您知道备货，制单，订舱，所有这些都要花时间。
A: I see. What's your unloading port?
我明白了。你们的卸货港在哪?
B: How about Qingdao?
青岛如何?
A: We'd like to change the unloading port to Dalian.
我们希望将卸货地址改为大连。
B: No problem. It makes no difference to us to change the unloading port from Qingdao toDalian.
没问题。卸货港是青岛还是大连对我们来说没有什么区别。
A: That'll be fine. I appreciate your cooperation.
很好，感谢你们的合作。
“It takes sb some time to do sth”是“花费某人多少时间来做某事”的意思，例如：It takes us five daysto finish the task.(完成这项任务花费了我们5天的时间。)
