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实用商务英语19：表明立场

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Dave:Wang Trading is making knockoffs of our watches and selling them.I say we tell them right away to stop, or we'll take them to court. Do I have everyone's support on this? Bob?

Bob: You have my full backing, Dave. If we don't show everyone that we'll hurt them when they do these things, other companies will start to make more knockoffs later.

Mary: I'm sorry, but I think that's just what we shouldn't do. We'd need to use Vietnam's laws; we all know that the government there won't help a Taiwanese company fight a Vietnamese company.

Dave: I see your point, but we need to punish them, and let others see us punishing them, so nobody else will ever try the same thing.

Mary: Companies have tried that many, many times before -- it never works. If we stop this company, there will just be another company that will do the same thing. If there is a chance for making profits, someone will try it.

Bob:We're cutting our own throats if we don't do something.Are you saying we should just do nothing?

Mary: Not at all. What I'm saying is that the knockoffs are being sold in a market that our watches aren't sold in. If we want to stop others from selling knockoffs, we should get into this market ourselves.