Daphne：Don, I’d like to do business with you. （戴芬妮：唐，我想跟你做生意。）
Don：Do business? You already import my products. What else do you have in mind? （唐：做生意？妳目前就在進口我的產品。妳還有什麼別的想法？）
Daphne：I hope we can come to an agreement on a proposal I have. I have a proposal to establish another company. （戴芬妮：我希望我們能針對我的提案達成協定。我提議成立另外一家公司。）
Don：Really? That sounds interesting. Please tell me more. （唐：真的嗎？聽來挺有意思的。請再多告訴我一些。）
Daphne：Let’s form a partnership to develop a retail chain of stationery stores. （戴芬妮：咱們合夥開發零售連鎖文具店。）
Don：Stationery stores? But Daphne, there are already a lot of stationery stores. （唐：文具店？可是戴芬妮，文具店已經很多了。）
Daphne：I’ve got a new idea. We should cooperate on a joint venture to create a whole new concept in stationery stores. I would like to develop a strategic partnership with you to make a chain of shops where people want to visit and have coffee—a bit like Starbucks. （戴芬妮：我有個新點子。我們應該合資創造全新概念的文具店。我想要跟你發展一種策略合夥關係，開發可以讓客人進店裡來看看並且點杯咖啡的連鎖店──有點像星巴克。）
Don：Hmm. So, people would come and stay a while and use our stationery products? （唐：嗯。也就是說，客人會進來坐一會兒並使用我們的文具產品？）
Daphne：Right. We can leverage our skills and capital to make this project a big success. （戴芬妮：沒錯。我們可以好好利用我們的技術和資金，讓這個計畫非常成功。）
Don：Well, it sounds like it is a mutually beneficial proposal. （唐：嗯，聽起來像是個雙方能互蒙其利的企劃案。）
Daphne：If you are interested, I will draft an agreement on my proposal. （戴芬妮：如果你有興趣，我會針對我的提案草擬一份協定。）
Don：Yes, I’m quite interested. I’d be interested to see the terms of the contract. （唐：有，我蠻有興趣的。我會有興趣看看契約上列出的條件。）
Daphne：Great. I will have a contract drawn up tomorrow. （戴芬妮：好極了，我明天就會擬好一份契約。）
必通詞彙與句型
．(Sb.) would like to do business with (sb.). （某人）想跟（某人）談生意。 ．I hope we can come to an agreement on (sth.). 我希望我們能針對（某事物）達成協議。 ．I have a business proposal to (do sth.). 我有個企劃案，打算（做某事）。 ．Let’s form a partnership to (do sth.). 咱們合夥（做某事）。 ．We should cooperate on a joint venture to (do sth.). 我們應該合作（做某事）的合資事業。
．I would like to develop a strategic partnership with (sb.) to (do sth.). 我想跟（某人）一起開發策略性的合夥關係，以便（做某事）。
．We can leverage our (skills/knowledge/capital) to (do sth.). 我們可以好好利用我們的（技術／知識／資本）來（做某事）。
．This is a mutually beneficial proposal to (do sth.). 這是一個（做某事）能讓雙方互蒙其利的企劃案。
