1、英文书信结构及写法要求信头（Heading）: 写发信人的地址和日期。信头放在信纸的右上端，离信纸顶格约 3 厘米左右，同时靠近信纸的中央开始写发信人的地址和日期，通常分几行来写。地址的写法顺序由小到大。日期写法有英美之分，英国写法是按日、月、年的次序，如 19th April, 1993; 美国的写法是按月、日、年的次序，如 April 19, 1993。年份之前要用逗号隔开。正式信函中月份不可缩写，要写全称。日期和地址之间要空一行。第一行写门牌号、楼号、路（街）号名。第二行写城市名，如果有区号就先写区号，再写城市名；城市名也可移至下一行写。第三行写省名或国家名称（寄往国外信件）例：Engl
2、ish Section, Class 9003International Business Dept.Hangzhou Institute of Commerce310035, Hangzhou, China10th September, 1991一般私人信件可省去写信人地址，只写明日期即可。信内地址（Inside Address） : 写收信人姓名和地址。位置是从离信纸左边的空白约 3 厘米并低于右上方日期一至二行的地方开始写，通常也分数行来写。Professor F. HemanusDept. of School SciencesThampereen UniversityPL 607 Ka
3、llevantice 4SF-433101 Tampere, Finland称呼（Salutation ）: 写对方收信人的称呼1. 相识的男女： Dear Mr, Dear Miss2. 十分熟悉的亲朋好友：My Dear (John), Dear Teacher, Dear Friend, or Dear Ms3. 对妇女和未婚女子： My Madam, Dear Ms4. 对不熟悉的人： Dear Sir, Gentleman正文（Body）: 全信的主体。信件的具体内容在这一部分展开。正文是英文书信的主要组成部分。写作时应离称呼语下隔两行距离的地方开始写。正文文字一般约占信纸四分之三的
4、空间，两边应留有适当的空白，下方的空白较宽。千万不能图省事或节约写得满页皆文，密密麻麻。结尾客套语（Complimentary Close）: 写发信人表示自己对收信人的一种谦称英文书信的结尾客套话相当于中文书信中的“敬上” 、 “谨上” 、 “此致敬礼” 、 “拜上”等客套话。结束语的第一个字母要大写；如果含有两个或两个以上的字，后面的字一律小写，末尾要加逗号。常用的客套话有：1 用于地位高的人或长辈Respectfully yours, Yours respectfully,2 用于不太熟悉而应该客气的人Yours truly, Very truly yours,3 用于对机关的正式信函或
5、商贸书信中Yours faithfully, Faithfully yours,4 用于熟人之间（在美国完全陌生者也用）Sincerely yours, Yours sincerely,5 用于亲属、家人或挚友之间Yours, Affectionately yours, Lovingly yours, With love, Love,6 用于一般亲友之间Yours cordially, Yours sincere friend,7 用于情人、夫妻之间Devotedly, Lovingly, Your own, All my love, Your loving husband (wife),签名
6、（Signature）: 亲笔书写发信人自己的姓名1. Truly yours,(Miss) Margret Julianne2. Yours faithfully,HAITIAN FOOD CO., LTDWan ShunliGeneral Manger3. Yours very truly,For TUNKS FRIED CHICKENS CO.,补充性部分：附言（Postscript ）附件（Enclosure）1. Enclosed please find a resume, a photo and an autobiography.2. Enclosed you will find
7、a letter of recommendation from my former teacher of English.3. I enclose a resume and one of my publications.英文书信常用起首句和结束语一封英文书信写得好坏与否，除了正确得体的书信格式之外，起首句和结束语的拟写往往也是至关重要的。起首句的写作应尽量简明扼要，直截了当地说明写信的目的，不必兼词重叠，一味追求客气而落入俗套。结束语的写作则应避免废话旧调，要有所针对，恰如其分，力争给对方留下热情诚恳的良好印象。另外，在现代英文书信写作中，起首句应力求避免使用以-ing 结尾的分词短语，因为它
8、们在信函中显得过于呆板拘泥；含有 apologize, excuse, pardon 等表示“迟复为歉”意思的句子也应减少出现的机会，除非是一封专门的道歉信。因为歉语的使用既无新意又显得粗鲁无礼。（1）起首句1. I am writing to ask about the meeting to be held next month.2. I was glad to receive your letter of May 283. With great delight I learn that4. Your kind letter of Saturday arrived this morning.
9、5. I am very much pleased to inform you that6. Many thanks for your last kind letter.7. In reply to your letter of the 27th October, I beg to say8. I wish to apply for the job you are offering.9. I am very excited and delighted over your good news.10. I am very much obliged to you for your warm cong
10、ratulations.11. It is always a thrill to see your beautiful handwriting.12. Your letter which arrived this morning gave me great comfort, as your know13. First of all I must thank you for your kindness to me and for your compliments.14. Thank you very much for the book you sent me on my birthday.15.
11、 What a treat to receive your letter of November, 24th(2) 结束语1. I hope to hear from you soon.2. I look forward to our next meeting here in London.3. Your kind early reply will be highly appreciated.4. Any other particulars required I shall be pleased to give you.5. The help you send is sincerely val
12、ued.6. With best regards to your family.7. With love and good wishes.8. Thanks for your sincere cooperation with us.9. I wish you every success in the coming year.10. I hope you are enjoying good health.11. Thank you again for your kind consideration of my12. I am grateful for all your past kindness
13、.13. Wish you the best of health and success.14. Hope that you will do me the favour of accepting this little gift.15. If you want more information, please feel free to write to me again.求职信最佳活用句式4. In reply to your advertisement in todays China Post for an accountant, I respectfully offer my servic
14、es for the situation.5. With reference to your advertisement in China News of May 2 for a clerk, I offer myself for the post.6. Please consider me an applicant for the position which you advertised in China Times of December 5.7. In answer to your advertisement in todays the United Daily News for a
15、secretary, I wish to render my services.8. Your advertisement for a telephone operator in the Times of March 8 has interested me. I feel I can fill that position.9. Perhaps there is a position in your organization, for an attractive, experienced, and conscientious secretary-stenographer.10. I have b
16、een in the business for the last ten years, and worked as the superintendent in the personnel department.11. I am 25 years of age, and have had two years experience in my present post, which I am leaving to better myself.12. I am twenty years of age, and am anxious to settle down to office work.13.
17、I am a good accountant and have a thorough knowledge of the English language.14. For the past three years, I have been engaged as a correspondence clerk.15. Being well acquainted with office work, I could make myself generally useful, should there be any opportunity of your requiring my services.16.
18、 I have received an ordinary English education, and have a slight knowledge of Spanish. I took a Spanish course in college.17. I have just left school, but have a good knowledge of English.18. I can write shorthand at the rate of 120 words per minute, and typewrite at 55 words English.19. At school
19、I won a scholarship and the first prize in speech contest.20. I am a graduate of Commercial School, and have recently completed the business course at the University of Commerce.21. Enclosed please find a resume, a photo and an autobiography.22. Enclosed you will find a letter of recommendation from
20、 my former teacher of English.23. I enclose a resume and one of my publications.24. I should require a salary of 4,500 dollars a month to begin with.25. As regards salary, I leave it to you to decide after experience of my capacity.26. However, the matter of remuneration will take care of itself, as
21、 it always does, if other things are all right.27. I am willing to serve on trial for some months at a small salary.28. My reason for leaving my present employer is that I am desirous of getting broader experience in trading.29. My reason for leaving my present employment is simple because I see no
22、chance of advancement.求职打字员（Applying for a Job as a Typist）Dear Sir,Miss Tenny Lam, secretary to one of your directors, has told me that you have a vacancy for a shorthand-typist and I should like to offer myself to the post.I am twenty-three years of age and a former pupil of the City Commercial Co
23、llege, where I completed a two-year commercial course. I left school with a good academic record, with A grade in English, typewriting and book-keeping. My speed of shorthand and typewriting is 130 words and 60 words per minute.My former headmaster has written the enclosed testimonial and has kindly
24、 agreed to give further details should they be needed. If, as I hope, you are interested in my application, you will of course be able to get more information about me from my present employers.I enjoy the kind of work I am doing, but wish to continue it in circumstances that offer better prospects.
25、 I shall be pleased to call for an interview at any time.Yours faithfully,求职暑期零工（Applying for Doing Odd Jobs during the Summer Vacation）Dear Sir,I would like to apply for the post of Chinese teacher in your summer program advertised in yesterdays newspaper.You will find a full account of my career a
26、nd qualifications in the attached personal record sheet, and I have also added the names of two references and copies of a recent testimonial.I am a native of Beijing and can speak standard mandarin. And I have been in the United States for more than two years. So I am bilingual in Chinese and Engli
27、sh, and I also know a little French. I have had some experiences in teaching Chinese since I came here and can get along with almost everyone.If you feel that my qualifications meet with your requirements, I would be pleased to come for an interview. I have enclosed a stamped, addressed envelope for
28、 your reply.Thank you for considering my application.Yours sincerely,求职公司见习（Applying for a Position as a Company Practitioner）Dear Sir,This is to request the opportunity for practical training in the field of marketing research or general management in you corporation. I shall be available beginning
29、 June 15, 1991.I am 24 years old, currently in the second year of graduate study in Business Administration at the California State University, Fresno. I expect to complete all the course work for a MBA degree by Mid June.Honestly I have not had any formal work experience in business although I had
30、been an assistant in a trading company for one summer before I came to the states. And my undergraduate major was Mass Communication. I spite of this, I am highly motivated for management, especially in the area of marketing. As current immigration regulations allow a foreign student to engage in pr
31、actical training in the field related to his studies, I wish to gain some work experience before returning to my country. I am capable of hard working and do not care about the salary.Attacked is a transcript of my academic record for the work I have completed at the California State University, Fre
32、sno. Meanwhile, I have made arrangements for two letters of reference addressed to your office directly.I shall be pleased to provide any further information you may need, and hope I may be given the opportunity of an interview.Sincerely yours,感谢信最佳活用句式1. Please accept my profound appreciation for2.
33、 I wish to express my sincere appreciation for3. I am most grateful to you for4. At the outset, I want to thank you for your kindness to me and for your compliments.5. It is a hopeless understatement to say that I am deeply grateful.6. It is generous of you to show me so much consideration.7. I regr
34、et very much that I did not have an opportunity to thank you personally for8. As soon as I opened your package, I felt that I must sit right down and tell you9. Expected gifts are a pleasure to receive, but unexpected remembrances are even greater joy.10. You couldnt have given me anything that I wa
35、nted more.11. This is to thank you again for your wonderful hospitality and to tell you how much I enjoyed seeing you once more.12. Thank you for one of the most enjoyable visits we have had in many months.13. Thank you for contributing so much to the pleasure of our stay in Sydney.14. Your note of
36、congratulations is deeply appreciated.15. Many thanks for remembering our anniversary and for your very flattering remarks.16. There is nothing more gratifying to me than your encouraging words.17. We deeply appreciate your good wishes and congratulation.18. Your lovely Christmas card was most welco
37、me.感谢款待 Thanks for Ones HospitalityDear Prof. Smith,Many thanks for your kind hospitality and the honor you showed me during my recent visit to your country. It was thoughtful of you to introduce me to so many of your famous professors and learned scholars in your country. I have learned a lot from
38、them. I returned to China safe and sound last Friday, and have resumed my work now.I hope you will some day visit our country with its ancient history and beautiful scenery, and give us some lectures on “Modern English Literature”.Please have no hesitation in writing to me should you want me to do s
39、omething for you in China.With best wishes, I remain, Yours sincerely,Li Ping会议闭幕词 A Closing AddressLadies and gentlemen,Our conference has lasted three days. It has achieved tremendous successes. Eighteen scientists and scholars spoke at the conference. Many more aired their views freely at group d
40、iscussions, which proceeded in a friendly and lively atmosphere. I benefited greatly by attending this conference.Science and technology are a kink of wealth created in common by all mankind. They must in turn serve the needs of all the people and work for the interest of world peace. Any nation or
41、country must learn from the strong points of other nations and countries, from their advanced science and technology. Science involves efforts and toil. At the same time, it calls for creativeness and imagination. Lets join hands and explore the boundless universe in quest of the never-ending truth
42、of science.Ladies and gentlemen, you have my best wishes for your still greater achievements in your career of science.Now, I declare the conference closed.Thank you.Speech for a Newly Arrived American TeacherLadies and gentlemen,It is my special pleasure to welcome our new staff member, Mr. Tony Wh
43、ite, who has come here from America.Mr. White has recently graduated from the University of Chicago where he majored in English Literature and minored in Teaching English as a Second Language. He is 22 years old and unmarried.Mr. White will be working mostly in our day-time classes, and he has also
44、graciously consented to take some of our evening classes. He will be with us here for at least two years.One of the goals of our school, in addition to teaching English, is to promote understanding and cooperation between the young people of our two countries. By having dedicated people like Mr. Whi
45、te, who are willing to sacrifice the comfort of their friends in their own country to come to a strange and unknown country, we feel we are very lucky and that our goals will be all the more easily realized.Mr White, the other faculty members and the rest of the staff of the school join with me in e
46、xtending to you our sincerest welcome. We are indeed happy to have you here, and we wish you all the best during the time that you are with us. Thank you.这是一篇欢迎词，欢迎新来的美国老师。致辞者在短时间内充分发挥自己的语言才能，在一篇简短的讲话稿中达到了欢迎、介绍、祝贺的目的。第一、二段：致欢迎词并引出今天所欢迎的宾客的姓名。介绍宾客的学历、经历及其他背景情况。第三、四段：阐述客人到此地的计划并说明他的到来符合我们学校、国家促进交流的目的。第五段：代表全体教职员学生，再一次向他祝贺他的到来并礼貌地结束演讲。
