Make delivery 交貨 A: How long does it usually take you to make delivery?
    你們通常多久能交貨？
    B: Delivery would be a month from receipt of your order.
    收到你方信用證后一個月。
    A: Could you effect shipment more promptly?
    你們能否提前一點(diǎn)交貨呢？
    B: I'm sorry to say that we can't advance the time of delivery. Getting the goods ready, making out the documents and booking the shipping space, all these take time.
    很抱歉，我們無法提前交貨。您知道備貨，制單，訂艙，所有這些都要花時間。
    A: I see. What's your unloading port?
    我明白了。你們的卸貨港在哪？
    B: How about Qingdao?
    青島如何？
    A: We'd like to change the unloading port to Dalian.
    我們希望將卸貨地址改為大連。
    B: No problem. It makes no difference to us to change the unloading port from Qingdao to Dalian.
    沒問題。卸貨港是青島還是大連對我們來說沒有什么區(qū)別。
    A: That'll be fine. I appreciate your cooperation.
    很好，感謝你們的合作。
    “It takes sb some time to do sth”是“花費(fèi)某人多少時間來做某事”的意思，例如：It takes us five days to finish the task.（完成這項(xiàng)任務(wù)花費(fèi)了我們5天的時間。）