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2009-09-03 17:00:39
Frequently Used Sentences for Professional Email Writing | ||
Type | Frequently Used Sentences | |
1 | Greeting message | Hope you have a good trip back. |
How are you? | ||
How is the project going on? | ||
2 | Initiate a meeting | I suggest we have a call tonight at 9:30pm (China Time) with you and Brown. Please let me know if the time is okay for you and Ben. |
I would like to hold a meeting in the afternoon about our development planning for the project A. | ||
We'd like to have the meeting on Thu Oct 30, 03. Same time. | ||
Let's make a meeting next Monday at 5:30 PM SLC time. | ||
I want to talk to you over the phone regarding issues about report development and the XXX project. | ||
3 | Seeking for more information/feedbacks/suggestions |
Shall you have any problem accessing the folders, please let me knows. |
Thank you and look forward to having your opinion on the estimation and schedule | ||
Look forward to your feedbacks and suggestions soon. | ||
What is your opinion on the schedule and next steps we proposed? | ||
What do you think about this? | ||
Feel free to give your comments. | ||
Any question, please don't hesitate to let me know. | ||
Any question, please let me know. | ||
Please contact me if you have any questions. | ||
Please let me know if you have any question on this. | ||
Your comments and suggestions are welcome! | ||
Please let me know what you think? | ||
Do you have any idea about this? | ||
It would be nice if you could provide a bit more information on the user's behavior. | ||
At your convenience, I would really appreciate you looking into this matter/issue. | ||
4 | Give feedback | Please see comments below. |
My answers are in blue below. | ||
I add some comments to the document for your reference. | ||
5 | Attachment | I enclose the evaluation report for your reference |
Attached please find today's meeting notes | ||
Attach is the design document, please review it | ||
For other known issues related to individual features, please see attached release notes | ||
6 | Point listing | Today we would like to finish following tasks by the end of today: 1……. 2……. |
Some known issues in this release: 1……. 2……. | ||
Our team here reviewed the newest SCM policy and has following concerns: 1……. 2……. | ||
Here are some more questions/issues for your team: 1……. 2……. | ||
The current status is as following: 1…… 2…… | ||
Some items need your attention: 1……. 2……. | ||
7 | Raise question | I have some questions about the report XX-XXX |
For the assignment ABC, I have the following questions:… | ||
8 | Proposal | For the next step of platform implementation, I am proposing… |
I suggest we can have a weekly project meeting over the phone call in the near future. | ||
Achievo team suggest to adopt option A to solve outstanding issue…… | ||
9 | Thanks note | Thank you so much for the cooperation |
Thanks for the information | ||
I really appreciate the effort you all made for this sudden and tight project. | ||
Thanks for your attention! | ||
Your kind assistance on this are very much appreciated. | ||
Really appreciate your help! | ||
10 | Apology | I sincerely apologize for this misunderstanding! |
I apologize for the late asking but we want to make sure the correctness of our implementation ASAP. |
Purpose | Frequently Used Phase | Example |
表示次序 | at first开始 | At first I thought he was right;on second thoughts,I wasllot sure. |
开头我认为他是对的,再一想我又没有把握了。 | ||
first of all 首先;第一 | To do a good job, first of all you must keep your mind on your work. | |
要做好工作,你首先必须专心于你自己的工作。 | ||
to begin with 首先 | To begin with,we ought to know what we are studying for. | |
首先,我们应该知道为什么而学习。 | ||
above all 首先;尤其是 | You must,above all,set your heart on study. | |
首先,你必须专心致志于学习。 | ||
first,then,finally 首先,然后,最后 | First,we go over the story,then we make an outline of it,and finally we retell it. | |
首先,我们看一遍故事,然后写一个提纲,最后进行复述。 | ||
First,second,third 第一,第二,第三 | Why should we learn swimming? First,because it is a very good form of exercise.Second,it gives pleasure. Third, it may sometimes mean the difference between life and death. | |
为什么我们要学游泳?第一,因为它是一项很好的运动形式;第二,它给我们带来乐趣;第三,会不会游泳有时可能成为生死攸关的问题。 | ||
On the one hand,on the other hand 一方面,另一方面 | On the one hand he had to study,on the other hand he had a big family to support. | |
一方面他要学习,另一方面他还要维持一个大家庭。 | ||
in the first place,in the second place 第一,第二 | In the first place,we should not delay our work…In the second place,we should divide our work to be done at regular times during the day. | |
第一,我们不能拖延我们的工作……。第二,我们应该把工作分别安排在一天的固定时间里去完成 | ||
引出题目 | on the subject 关于 | On the subject of music,people nowadays love popular music rather than classical music. |
谈到音乐,人们现在喜欢流行音乐,而不是古典音乐。 | ||
it is thought that 有人认为 | It is thought that some of the popular novels have bad effects on young people's mind. | |
有人认为一些通俗小说对年轻人的思想有坏的影响。 | ||
regarding 关于 | Regarding this matter, what's your opinion? | |
关于此事,你的意见如何? | ||
concerning 关于 | Concerning their service, it needs improving. |