collect

【1】收集

 

【例】Can you let us know when the goods will be ready ex works so that we can collect them?

为了便于我们提货，你们能告诉我们货物在什么时候可备好出厂吗？

 

【2】收取（款项），托收

 

①【例】We are unable to collect the charges from our clients.

我们无法从客户那里收取这些费用。

 

②动名词用作定语。

【例】We have asked our bankers to represent the draft through the collecting bank and you must effect payment immediately.

我们已要求我方银行通过托收银行重新提示该汇票，你方必须立即付款。

 

【3】（款项）收取

 

常接用for sth。

【例】A sight draft means that the seller can collect for the shipment as soon as he sends it.

即期汇票意味着卖方一发货马上就能收取货款。

 

【4】由收到者付款

 

【例】We have airmailed you a package of our latest catalogues collect.

我们已用空邮寄去我方最新产品目录一包，邮费到付。

 

collection

【1】（货物等）收集，接收

 

【例】If you are unable to accept the wrong goods, we shall make arrangements for their collection.

如你方不能接受错发的货物，我们将安排收回该货。

 

【2】收藏品

 

【例】As soon as we are in possession of details and samples of your fabrics, we are in a position to visit our customers with your design collections.

一旦我们掌握你方织物的详细情况和样品，我们就携带织物的花型图样访问客户。

 

【3】收款，托收

 

【例】Party A shall act as the agent of Party B in the collection of such royalty.

甲方应作为乙方收取专利权使用费的代理人。

 

【4】a collection of一堆，许多

 

【例】You certainly have got a large collection of sample food stuffs in the sample room.

你们样品间肯定有许许多多食物样品。

 

collision

碰撞

 

【例】The carrying vessel is reported to have been in collision with an oil tanker.

据报道，那艘运载船只曾与一油轮相撞。