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Investment environment 投資環境
A:Could you tell me something about investment environment of your country?
B:Our country is a free trade nation. She was mainly agricultural and rather abackwardcountry and now has developed into a modern, highlyindustrializedstate with anexpandingeconomy.Parallel tothis, herdependenceupon foreign trade has increased. Increasedoutputgenerates a great need for raw materials,semi-finished productsand capital goods. Thus, in many fields, our country is an important and growing market for exporters from other countries. But this doesn't mean that our country is an easy market. Because of aliberalimport policy and the high standard in our market is keen.
A:Well, what about price?
B:The price factor can be a useful instrument for exporters when trying to place their products in industrialized countries. Of course, marketing goods aboard isnot onlya question of price. There are also other important factors such as design, quality of goods, term of sale, transport and insurance.

重點注釋：
1. backward 落后的
2. industrialized 工業化的 其名詞形式是industry, 形容詞形式是industrial
3. expand 膨脹，擴展；展開
4. dependence 依靠，從屬
5. output 產量
6. liberal 自由的，大方的
7. generate 產生，導致
8. parallel to this 與此同時
9. semi-finished products 半成品
10. “not only...but also”的意思是“不僅……而且……”。例如：We should not only be bold, but also be cautions. 我們不僅要大膽，而且要謹慎。

漢語譯文：
A:你能告訴我們一些有關貴國投資環境的信息嗎？
B:我國是一個自由貿易的國家。它曾是相當落后的農業國，現在已經發展成了一個現代，經濟增長快的工業化國家。與此同時，她依靠的外貿已經增加了。增加的產量引起了對毛產品、半成品和資本貨物較大的需求。在很多領域，對其他國家的出口商來說，我國是一個重要的，正在逐步壯大的市場。但這并不意味著我國是一個可以容易進入的市場。因為許可出口的政策和高標準是敏銳的。
A:嗯，價格怎樣？
B:對出口商而言，在工業化國家投資他們的產品，價格因素好像是一個有用的工具。當然，國外市場產品，不僅是價格問題，也是其他諸如設計、產品質量、支付條件、運輸、保險等重要的因素。