礼仪英语 lesson4-part1

　　Lesson 4 Letters of Invitation

邀请函

I Written Invitation and reply for Social Occasions

社交场合的书面邀请与答复

Key Sentences (重点句子）

61.We are giving a small dinner-dance for a few friends at 5 p.m. on Thursday to celebrate Xiao Ming's twentieth birthday.

为庆祝小明20岁生日，我们打算邀几位朋友于星期四下午5点来参加小型宴会。

62.We would be very pleased if you would come.

如果您参加，我们将会很高兴。

63.I would be very glad if you would come to dinner with me at my home at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.1st.

如您在10月1日（星期六）晚6时来我家吃晚发，我将非常高兴。

64.It would be very nice if you and your wife could com and spend the weekend 5-6th May with us.

如您和您的夫人能来这里与我们共度周末（5月5日到6日），那就太好了。

65.Could you come round for a drink next Saturday at about 6:30 p.m.?

请您下星期下午6点半左右来我家共饮一杯。

66.We look forward to seeing you.

我们期待着与您见面。

67.Thank you very much for your kind invitation to dinner on Oct. lst.

承蒙邀请参加10月1日的晚宴，不胜感激。

68.I would be delighted to come.

我将乐意前往。

69.Many thanks for your kind invitation to the party at the Xinhua Restauranton Saturday. I accept with pleasure.

非常感谢您盛情邀请我出席星期六在新华饭店举行的就会。我愉快地接受这一邀请。

70.Thank you very much for the invitation to your tea party on May 1st. We would love to come.

非常感谢您邀请我们参加5月1日举行的茶会，我们将非常高兴前去参加。

71.We would be delighted to join you for a picnic next Sunday and will exect you at 9 a.m. at our house.

我们很高兴与你们一起于下星期日去野餐，上午9点我们将在家等候。

72.I very much regret that my wife and I will be unable come to your Christmas Party. We are going away on business on the 23rd and won't be back until the 28th.

非常遗憾，我和我夫人都不能参加你们的圣诞节聚会。我们23日要出差到外地去，28日才能回来。

73.Please tell your wife how sorry we are to miss such a joyful 2 occasion.

请转告您的夫人，我们感到十分遗憾，不能参加这样一个欢乐的聚会。

74.Mr.Smith thanks Mr.Zhou for his kind invitation to the concert on Sunday, Dec. 25th, but very much regrets that he is unable to aceept owing to a previous engagement.

史密斯先生感谢周先生盛情邀请他于12月25日（星期天）去听音乐会，但由于早有安排，恕不能应邀，对此深表歉意。

75.I'm sorry I can't accept your very kind invitation to tea party next Monday because I have another engagement on that day.

由于下星期一我已另有安排，不能应邀参加茶会。谢谢您的盛情邀请，并表示歉意。

Sample 1

Mr.Zhang Weiming

requests the pleasure of your company

Mr.William Smith

At a cocktail 3 party

7:00 p.m. , Thursday, April 8

At 180 Zhongshan Road

R.S.V.P.

Tel. 0571-7806543

Sample 2

Dear Mr. Draper,

My wife and I would be so pleased if you and your good lady would have dinner with us at our flat 3, Block 3, Zhongguancun, next Saturday evening, 10th July,at 8 p.m. so as to have an informal chat.

If the date and time suggested above is not conveient to you, please suggest an alternative.

Your sincerely,

Liu Guohuan

Sanple 3

Dear Mr.&Mrs. Smith,

Prof. Zhang,dean of the Chemistry Department will leave for New York on a lecture tour shortly. We take pleasure in inviting 4 you to join us in a Farewell Cocktail Parrty which is to take place at 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 30th Septeber, 1995, at our office.

Looking forward to the pleasure of seeing you.

Your faithfully,

Xun Yin

Sample 4(接受邀请）

Dear Mr. Xun,

Many thanks for your kind invitation to the farewell cocktail party on Tuesday, 30th September, 1995 at 5:30-7:30 p.m.

We are delighted to accept and look forward to seeing you on that date.

Your sincerely,

John Smith & Catherine Smith

Sample 5 (谢绝邀请）

Dear Mr.Xun,

We sincerely thank you for the invitation to the cocktail party to bid farewell to Prof. Zhang.

We very much regret that because of previous arrangements it will not possible for us to attend,but we do appreciate the opportunity to have known Prof. Zhang, and sincerely hope thar his stay in New York will be both pleasant and profitable.

Your faithfully,

John Smith & Catherine Smith

II Invitation and Reply for Formal Visit

对正式访问的邀请与答复

Key Sentences(重点句子）

76.It is with the graetest pleasure that I write to cordially invite your University to send a team of experts to attend the symposium 5.

我怀着极其愉快的心情给您写信，诚挚地邀请贵学校派遣一专家代表团参加这次科学讨论会。

77.The Organizing Committee is very pleased to inbite you to submit a paper for the 14th International Symposium on Acoustical 6 Imaging.

"第十四届国际声象学术讨论会"组委会非常高兴地邀请您惠寄一篇学术论文。

78.We would, with this letter, like to invite you to send a delegation 7 to attend the 14th International Conference on the Pjysics of Electronic and Atomic collisions.

借此机会，我们专函邀请你们派代表团参加出席“第十四届电子与原子碰撞物理学国际会议”。

79.It will be a great pleasure for my Society to act as sponsor for the visit of your delegation.

如果本协会能作为邀请您的代表团来访的发起人，我将感到十分荣幸。

80.We greatly apprrciate and admire your enthusiasm and efforts in promoting the academic exchanges of scientists between China and other countries. We will be happy to accept your invitation.

对于您为促进中国科学家和其他各国科学家之间的学术交流所表现的热情和所做的努力，我们十分钦佩和赞赏。我们欣然接受您的邀请。

81.It's our great pleasure to accept your invitation to participate in the 3rd Annual Beijing International Swimming Meeting.

我们愉快地接受邀请，参加第三届北京国际游泳年度邀请赛。

82.Many thanks for your letter of inbitation,but much to my regret, I will not be able to honour it because I have been suffering from an old disease since this summer.

我十分感谢您的邀请信，但十分抱歉的是，我不能出行，因为从今年夏天开始，我的老毛病犯了。

83.I'm grateful for your kind invitation, but my doctor advised me to stay in bed for the whole winter.

非常感谢您的盛情邀请，可我的一生要我整个冬天都躺在床上。

84.I feel very sad to miss the opportunity of meeting you.

失去与您见面的机会，我深表遗憾。

85.Very much look for ward 1 to meeting you this autumn.

盼望着与您的秋季会见。

86.I will be happy to accept your invitation and would send a delegation of 15 members to China.

我很高兴地接受您的邀请，我们将派出一支15人组成的代表团去中国。

87.The undersigned invites you to submit a contributed paper in your field of expertise 8.

本函署名者请您提交一篇专题论文。

88.We greatly appreciate and admire your enthusiasm and efforts in peompting the trade and cooperation between the countries.

对于您为促进两国间的贸易与合作所表现出的热情和所做的努力，我们十分钦佩和赞赏。

89.I feelvery sad to miss the opprtunity of meeting you and many others in the field of Functional 9 Grammar.

失去与您和其他研究功能语法的同行们见面的机会，我深感遗憾。

Sample 1

(Inviting an American Trade Delegation for a study tour)

Dear Mr.Smith,

Onbehalf of the CCPIT,I would be very pleased to invite you to send a delegation to have a study tour of there or four weeks in China.

My Secretariat will act in cooperation with the Chiese Department your Embassy in Shanghai. It will arrange your programme and will do all that is necessary to ensure thai your visit is a rewarding one.

I suggest that your delegation arrive in time to start their work on Monday,18th September. Your programme could be designed to cover these to four weeks following that date. If this period is not convenient for you, please inform me as soon as possible of the date on which you would prefer to arrive, so that I can make the necessary alternative arrangements. I look forward to meeting you this autumn.

Yours sincerely,

Xu Guohua

Sample 2

Dear Mr.Xu,

I have received your letter dated May 15, 1995, inviting a delegation from the States to make a study tour of three to four weeks in China. We greatly appreciate and admire your enthusiasm and efforts in promoting the trade and cooperation between the two countries. China has been developing very quickly owing to its open-door policy and the flexible ways of trading. And autumn is a harvesting season.

I will be happy to accept your invitation and would send a delegation og 15 members to China. If everything goes smoothly 10, we'll arrive at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport on Sunday, 17th September.

We look forward to meeting you soon.

Sincerely yours,

John Smith

Sample 3

(Inviting a British professor to attend an international symposium to be held in Shanghai)

Dear Professor Milton,

The 20th International Symposium on Functional Grammar will be held in Shanghai, on August 21,2000. The conference will be devoted 11 to the recent progress and new trend of the research on functional grammar and its appliance in language teaching.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, the undersigned invites you to submit a contributed paper in tour field of expertise.Your local expenses including hotel caccommodation,meals and the conference fee will be covered by the organizers. However, it is assumed that your institute will take care of the travel expenses to and from Shanghai.

Please reply to the undersigned at the address given before May 15. The deadline for the submission 12 of the paper is June 15.

Your sincerely,

Xu Guohua

Sample 4

Dear Mr.Xu,

Many thanks for your letter dates 15th Januarty, inviting me to attend the 20th International Symposium on Functional Grammar to be held in Shanghai, from August 21 to 25, 1995.

Much to my regret, I will not be able to honour the invitationbecause I have been suffering from a serious illness since this summer. I am firmly advised that it would be unwise to undertake any distant and long teabel in the near future.

I feel very sad to miss the opportunity of meeting you and many others in the field of Functional Grammar.

I wish the symposium a complete success.

Faithfully yours,

John Milton