办公室英语：如何用英语主持会议
外企工作或者想要去外企工作的人，不是你会说英文就行的。由于文化传统、思维方式、教育习惯的不同，在语言表达上也会有很大的区别，有时甚至会产生南辕北辙的后果。同样一个英文单词，在老外眼里是“含蓄的批评”，在中国人眼里就成了“得到认可”，长此以往的误解，对工作对交流都是极为不利的。以下总结的一些“如何用英语主持会议”，大家不妨学一学，并且举一反三、触类旁通。
用英语主持会议
学习啦在线学习网 (1)：会议的结构
学习啦在线学习网 I - Introductions
Opening the Meeting
学习啦在线学习网 Welcoming and Introducing Participants
Stating the Principal Objectives of a Meeting
学习啦在线学习网 Giving Apologies for Someone Who is Absent
II - Reviewing Past Business
学习啦在线学习网 Reading the Minutes (notes) of the Last Meeting
Dealing with Recent Developments
学习啦在线学习网 III - Beginning the Meeting
Introducing the Agenda
学习啦在线学习网 Allocating Roles (secretary, participants)
学习啦在线学习网 Agreeing on the Ground Rules for the Meeting (contributions, timing, decision-making, etc.)
IV - Discussing Items
学习啦在线学习网 Introducing the First Item on the Agenda
Closing an Item
Next Item
学习啦在线学习网 Giving Control to the Next Participant
V - Finishing the Meeting
学习啦在线学习网 Summarizing
学习啦在线学习网 Finishing Up
Suggesting and Agreeing on Time, Date and Place for the Next Meeting
Thanking Participants for Attending
学习啦在线学习网 Closing the Meeting
The following pages focus on each part of the meeting and the appropriate language for eachsituation.
用英语主持会议(2)：主持会议
Opening 宣布会议开始
Good morning/afternoon, everyone.
学习啦在线学习网 If we are all here, let's get started / start the meeting / start.
学习啦在线学习网 Welcoming and Introducing 欢迎和介绍出席人员
Please join me in welcoming (name of participant)
We're pleased to welcome (name of participant)
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to (name of participant)
It's a pleasure to welcome (name of participant)
I'd like to introduce (name of participant)
学习啦在线学习网 Stating the Principal Objectives 阐明会议主要议题
We're here today to ...
学习啦在线学习网 I'd like to make sure that we ...
学习啦在线学习网 Our main aim today is to ...
I've called this meeting in order to ...
学习啦在线学习网 Giving Apologies for Someone Who is Absent 对缺席者表示遗憾
学习啦在线学习网 I'm afraid.., (name of participant) can't be with us today. She is in...
学习啦在线学习网 Unfortunately, (name of participant) ... will not be with us to day because he ...
I have received apologies for absence from (name of participant), who is in (place).
学习啦在线学习网 Reading the Minutes (notes) of the Last Meeting 宣读上次会议记要
To begin with I'd like to quickly go through the minutes of our last meeting.
First, let's go over the report from the last meeting, which was held on (date)
Here are the minutes from our last meeting, which was on (date)
Dealing with Recent Developments 询问近期动态
Jack, can you tell us how the XYZ project is progressing?
学习啦在线学习网 Jack, how is the XYZ project coming along?
John, have you completed the report on the new accounting package?
Has everyone received a copy of the Tate Foundation report on current marketing trends?
学习啦在线学习网 Moving Forward 转向下一个议题
So, if there is nothing else we need to discuss, let's move on to today's agenda.
学习啦在线学习网 Shall we get down to business?
Is there Any Other Business?
If there are no further developments, I'd like to move on to today's topic.
Introducing the Agenda 介绍议程
Have you all received a copy of the agenda?
学习啦在线学习网 There are X items on the agenda. First, ... second, ... third, ... lastly, ...
学习啦在线学习网 Shall we take the points in this order?
If you don't mind, I'd like to go in order today.
skip item 1 and move on to item 3
I suggest we take item 2 last.
学习啦在线学习网 Allocating Roles (secretary, participants) 分配秘书和出席者的会议角色
(name of participant) has agreed to take the minutes.
学习啦在线学习网 (name of participant), would you mind taking the minutes?
(name of participant) has kindly agreed to give us a report on ...
(name of participant) will lead point 1, (name of participant) point 2, and (name ofparticipant) point 3.
(name of participant), would you mind taking notes today?
Agreeing on the Ground Rules for the Meeting (contributions, timing, decision-making, etc.) 就会议程序(发言，时间，决策)达成一致
We will first hear a short report on each point first, followed by a discussion of ...
I suggest we go round the table first.
Let's make sure we finish by ...
学习啦在线学习网 I'd suggest we ...
There will be five minutes for each item.
We'll have to keep each item to 15 minutes. Otherwise we'll never get through.
Introducing the First Item on the Agenda 介绍第一项议题
学习啦在线学习网 So, let's start with ...
I'd suggest we start with...
Why don't we start with...
So, the first item on the agenda is
学习啦在线学习网 Pete, would you like to kick off?
学习啦在线学习网 Shall we start with ...
学习啦在线学习网 (name of participant), would you like to introduce this item?
学习啦在线学习网 Closing an Item 结束一个议题
I think that takes care of the first item.
Shall we leave that item?
学习啦在线学习网 Why don't we move on to...
If nobody has anything else to add, lets ...
学习啦在线学习网 Next Item 开始下一个议题
学习啦在线学习网 Let's move onto the next item
学习啦在线学习网 Now that we've discussed X, let's now ...
学习啦在线学习网 The next item on today's agenda is...
Now we come to the question of.
学习啦在线学习网 Giving Control to the Next Participant 请下一位出席者发言
I'd like to hand over to (name of participant), who is going to lead the next point.
学习啦在线学习网 Next, (name of participant) is going to take us through ...
Now, I'd like to introduce (name of participant) who is going to ...
学习啦在线学习网 Summarizing 总结
学习啦在线学习网 Before we close today's meeting, let me just summarize the main points.
Let me quickly go over today's main points.
学习啦在线学习网 To sum up, ...,.
学习啦在线学习网 OK, why don't we quickly summarize what we've done today.
In brief, ...
Shall I go over the main points?
学习啦在线学习网 Finishing Up 结束今日议题
学习啦在线学习网 Right, it looks as though we've covered the main items.
If there are no other comments, I'd like to wrap this meeting up.
Let's bring this to a close for today.
Is there Any Other Business?
学习啦在线学习网 Suggesting and Agreeing on Time, Date and Place for the Next Meeting 建议和征询下一次会议时间，日期和地点
Can we set the date for the next meeting, please?
学习啦在线学习网 So, the next meeting will be on ... (day), the . . . (date) of.. . (month) at ...
学习啦在线学习网 Let's next meet on ... (day), the . . . (date) of.. . (month) at ... What about the followingWednesday? How is that?
Thanking Participants for Attending 感谢出席人员
I'd like to thank Marianne and Jeremy for coming over from London.
Thank you all for attending.
Thanks for your participation.
学习啦在线学习网 Closing the Meeting 宣布散会
The meeting is finished, we'll see each other next ...
The meeting is closed.
学习啦在线学习网 I declare the meeting closed.