BEC商务英语教程-商务信函中的缩略语

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1. Rd., St. and Sq. are short for Road, Street and square

2. #20 in the USA and No. 20 in Britain both mean Number 20

3. On an envelope the abbreviations c/o, Attn. and P.O.B. mean care of （转交）,attention and post office box

4. You may see these in a report or textbook: e.g. or eg, i.e. or ie, etc. or etc and P.T.O.They stand for for example, that is, and so on, and please turn over

5. An American firms name may be followed by Corp. or Inc., meaning corporation

6. At the end of an informal letter, you might add a P.S., in other words a postcript（附言）

7. At end of a formal business letter its common to use the abbreviations c.c. and enc. or encl., which stand for carbon copy （副本抄送）and enclosure

8. But youd only see these in very old-fashioned correspondence: ult. (last month), inst. (instant month本月) and prox. (proximo month下月)