翻译与写作

第一章社交书信

一、Invitation Letters (邀请信)

Inviting to formal occasions:

April 5 Mr.& Mrs. Tom Brown

Kingship Villa

Zing Coo An

Xiamen, 361006

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Brown,

Y ours sincerely,

Lin Rong

President Openings

1. It would give me/us great pleasure to your presence at the Ceremony to be held on ….(date) at ….(place) at …(time)

2. We would like to extend to you an invitation to be our guest speaker at the Opening Ceremony be held on ….(date) at ….(place) at …(time)

3. We take great pleasure in inviting you to the Exhibition held on…….

Closings:

1. We should appreciate having your acceptance soon so we may complete our agenda.

2. I hope nothing will prevent you from coming and I look forward to your visit.

3. Please confirm that you will be able to attend by advising us of your time of arrival, so we can arrange for you to be met.

二、请柬（Invitation Cards）

Formal:

1. I am extremely grateful to you for …(sth./having done sth)

2. I am most grateful to you for…(sth./having done sth)

3. I would like you to know how grateful I am to you for …

4. Once again, could I say how grateful we are for your very generous help.

5. Please accept my sincere thanks for the very pleasant time I had …..

Informal

1. Thank you very much for….

2. I am so grateful to you for….

3. It was kind and generous of you to….

4 .Many thanks to you for….

5 .We ar e indebted to you….

第二章 A Letter of Introduction（介绍信）

Openings

1.The bearer of this note(letter), Mr. Bao Ming, ….（该持信人，包明先生，….

2.I’m giving this letter to Zhou Lin, a very good friend of mine.

3.I’m writing to introduce you Zhou Lin…我写此信向你介绍周林先生…..

4.I have the honor to introduce to you my esteemed friend…

我有幸给你介绍我尊敬的朋友…...

Closings

1.Any favor you may show him will be sincerely valued by me.

我将十分珍惜您对他的任何帮助

2.Y our kindness will be warmly appreciated 我将十分感激您的帮助

3.Any courtesy you may show her will be considered a personal favor to me

您对他任何帮助，将被视为对我的关照

第三章 A Letter of Certification(证明信)

“ To Whom It May Concerned(致有关人士/有关负责人)”为称呼语。

Useful sentence patterns

1．兹证明……This is to certify that ……

2. 我乐于证明……I have the pleasure in certifying that …..

3. 我证明….. I hereby certify that …..

4. 他终于职责，工作勤奋，诚实可靠。He has faithfully attended to his duties and has proved himself to be industrious and thoroughly reliable.

5. 他身体健康。He is physically and mentally healthy.

6. …get on well with ….. 与….相处融洽….

第四章 A Letter of Complaints ( 投诉信)

Openings

1.I’m writing to complain of bad quality of ….我写此信向你投诉…..的质量不好

2.I’m writing to complain of the poor service of …

我写此信向你投诉…..的服务态度不好

Closings

1. I choose to complain to you because I’m sure you will be able to have the problem solved

我执意向你投诉,因为我相信你能使这个问题得到解决.

2. I’m sorry to give you the trouble, but I’m sure you will be kind enough to put the wrong right.

我很遗憾,给你带来了麻烦,但我相信你会做出正确的处理

3. Hoping that the matter will be dealt with as soon as possible.