2020年5月2日 星期六

商業寫作 business writing

當你真正需要用到business writing(商業寫作)時,你是否曾想不到怎麼寫下內容呢?
我將引用<英文溝通寫作全技藝:求職、行銷、情書、慰問…50種工作與生活情境,面面俱到的英文書信寫作要點(附1範例文字光碟)>的一些內容當作導讀,額外加上我的個人看法,看完覺得有收穫的讀者記得幫我按"訂閱"喔!!!

When you really need to write down some business letters, have you ever thought how to describe your thoughts? Don't worry about it!  I will attach some contents from this book called How to say it to this article as an instruction . Rosalie Maggio, a writer and an illustrator in America, have published 24 books so far. She understood how to use communicative strategies to communicate with other people. Therefore, I will add some afterthoughts to this article. If you like my articles, you can click on "subscription" below.

<英文溝通寫作全技藝:求職、行銷、情書、慰問…50種工作與生活情境,面面俱到的英文書信寫作要點(附1範例文字光碟)> How to say it 

Chapter 36
Employment (職場相關信)
漢語拚音(Hanyu pinyin): zhíchǎng xiāngguānxìn

※使用mind map (心智圖)進行思考與發想
You need to use mind map to think about what words connected with Employment letters.

P.408 Categories
收件通知
(inform v.)
建議或抱怨
(suggestions or complaints n.)
公告通知
(notice n.)
同意、核准
(approval n.)
恭賀或稱讚(praises) n.
應徵工作
(apply for......)
v.
經營商譽
(maintaining reputation )
拒絕
(rejection) n.
邀請
(invitation) n.
面試 
interviews  n.
會議相關
meeting n.
請求
(request) n./v.
建立人脈
(establishing relationship)
引薦與推薦
(references) n.
退休
(retirement) n.
辭職或解僱
(resignation or lay-off)//notice (n.)

Your thoughts may be different from this authors' thoughts. As long as you didn't go off the topic, it doesn't matter what you thought. Because of diverse topics, I choose one of the topics and tell you how to use relevant words.

go off the topic phr. 離題  (Hanyu pinyin :lítí)
diverse  a. 多樣化的   (Hanyu pinyin :duōyànghuà de)
It doesn't matter.... 沒關係..... (Hanyu pinyin: méi guān xi)

Topic:Meeting n. 會議(相關的) p.409
When your boss assigns you to arrange the time of a meeting, you have to consider these things.
1.Explaining the purposes
2.Offering dates and time when everyone can attend this interior meeting.
3.Appreciating customers or other people who pay attention to your requests.

If possible, you will face how to manage change of time arrangement. Because of this reason, you need to mention original time arrangement of this meeting and confirm new time arrangement. Otherwise, you will probably be a layoff.

On the other hand, if you want to cancel the time arrangement of this meeting, you will reiterate original time arrangement of this meeting and give a simple reason and an apology to the person you will meet. Moreover, if you miss this important meeting, you have to give a sincere letter to your supervisors.

reiterate v.重複說明 (chóngfù shuōmíng)
sincere a.真誠的 (Hanyu pinyin: zhēnchéng de)

在商業寫作中,你要簡潔有力地將信件內容說明清楚,別人也才會更快地回應你。

表達專業和禮貌性的開頭與署名(signature):
Dear Tiffany Tsai------------->Janet Huang
或是(or)
Hi, Tiffany----------------->Janet     

Practice using 2 collocations and  2 sentences:  (p.413,415)
1.after much deliberation
2.appreciate having had the opportunity to work

1. I'm concerned about the infractions of our safety regulations.
我很擔心違反我們的安全規章。
(改變詞性):infractions

2. I hope you will be available for recall.
我們希望您到時能夠歸隊。


2020年4月29日 星期三

speaking practices(Chinese and English)

音檔:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PAJknQ3ScPj0G2u7CLa1cTG1NB5IKQid

2020/4/29
Hi, everyone!
I gave you some documents to make you practice your speaking.
If you are an English learner, click on the right files called "English speaking"
If you are a Chinese learner, click on the left files called" Chinese speaking."
Practice makes perfect! You will triumph over your adversity of language communication.!

口說題目已連結至雲端,自行下載練習自己的口說。
(Questions have been put in my google drive, so you can download these files and practice these questions on your own.)

使用步驟(steps):
1.把檔案全都下載至自己的google drive或是電腦上。
(Download the files in your google drive or computer.)
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2.先不要看文字檔,按照考試時間看看自己能說多少句。
(First, you can't see the text file and check how many sentences you can speak in a formal test.)
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3.再去打開文字檔內容,再聽一次題目,請你跟著複誦一次題目在規定的時間內再回答問題。
(Second, if you finished the first step,you will open the content of texts and listen to those questions again. Moreover, you need to repeat a question and answer to the question in 5 to 10 minutes.)
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4.搭配空白或方格筆記本進行聽寫練習。
(At last, you have to train dictation drills on your own with blank or square notebooks.

persevarance+practice+passion=precision

Go for it and you will thank for your effort to do this thing.




2020年4月27日 星期一

每週句子分析(2020/4/28)

我們每一週會有不定時的英文句子分析小練習,不只是要讓我天天能夠練習英文,更是為了對英文句子煩惱不堪的人造福!若有任何錯誤或是小問題都能在留言區留言喔!

學習任何語言切記三件事—"毅力"、"熱情"、"多練習"。
(Perseverance,passion,practice=precision)

Now, we start to look at some sentences from The New York Times.

The New York Times
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=49&emc=edit_ca_20200427&instance_id=17977&nl=california-today&productCode=CA&regi_id=120578644&segment_id=26055&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F19ec0ab4-5151-4366-bdb4-84d64283b1df&user_id=d248f42cd10ed0cd8199c0a9773f44a9


32 days on a ventilator

Jim Bello, 49, an athletic and healthy lawyer, developed a fever in early March after a hike in New Hampshire and later landed in a suburban emergency room, struggling to breathe.

land (n.)地方 (Hanyu pinyin):dìfāng (v.)落在....... (Hanyu pinyin):luòzài
pose to (phr.)指向..... (Hanyu pinyin):zhǐxiàng

Dictionary:
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/landed
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/observe
https://tw.dictionary.search.yahoo.com/
The story of his illness highlights the mysteries of the coronavirus and the challenges it poses to medical professionals.

The name of someone+(age)+adjective clauses+verb .........
一般的新聞文章或英語寫作檢定考試(GEPT,TOEIC,TOEFL,.....)都能使用這樣的句型,不僅讓你的文章不再有贅詞,反而更簡潔有力!!

If you are international students, you need to follow Chinese grammar rules. For example,
49歲的吉姆‧貝洛是一位熱愛運動、身心健康的律師。三月初,她在
新罕布殊爾州爬完山之後開始發高燒,隨後被送往郊區的急診室以維持生命跡象。49suì de jímǔ ‧bèiluò shì yīwèi rèài yùndòng 、shēnxīn jiànkāng de lǜshī 。sānyuèchū ,tā zài xīnhǎnbùshūěrzhōu páwánshān zhīhòu kāishǐ fāgāoshāo ,suíhòu bèi sòngwǎng jiāoqū de jízhěnshì yǐ wéichí shēngmìngjìxiàng 。
“It’s like they fall off a cliff,” said Dr. Peggy Lai, a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital. “You see young patients getting sicker and sicker by the day despite everything that you know is good standard of care.”

See+O.+original V/Ving.
Original V.->it means that you tell someone a truth.(講述事實)
Ving->it means that you tell someone what it is happening.(正在發生的事情)

If you are international students, you have to understand how to translate its Chinese meaning.
儘管你知道自己做的每一件事都是照顧病人的最高標準,但是你一直看著年輕的病人一天比一天還瘦弱。
jǐnguǎn nǐ zhīdào zìjǐ zuò de měiyījiànshì dōushì zhàogù bìngrén de zuìgāobiāozhǔn ,dànshì nǐ yīzhí kànzhe niánqīng de bìngrén yītiān bǐ yītiān hái shòuruò. 
Related: Antibody tests, which show who has been infected, are not currently reliable enough to guide policy on lockdowns and reopenings, experts say. But they can help model the spread of the virus.

Tests n.測試  
cè shì 
lockdowns n.鎖國 
suǒ guó 
reopenings n.解封 
jiě fēng
help+O.+(to)+V. --->寫作常用的!
Another angle: Men are more likely than women to die of the virus, so scientists are treating them with something women have more of: female sex hormones.

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2017年4月18日 星期二

2017.4.18(二)

2005年 movie <Pride&Prejudice>
取景: Stourhead garden in wiltshire.

















off the cuff: 未經準備而發言的人
以前英國上流社會準備演講的人通常會有要演講的小紙條藏於袖口裡,
後泛指不加思索的人

2017年1月28日 星期六

2017.1.27(五)

旅館單字比較:

A. 最普遍的當然就是這幾種囉,這些是有星星等級的旅館、飯店,也都會有客房服務(room service),也會有人幫忙清理房間 (house keeping),有些還會附早餐唷:

1. hotel:賓館;旅館;飯店;酒店
2. boutique hotel:精品旅館
3. suite hotel:套房飯店
4. motel:汽車旅館,在台灣俗稱:「摩鐵」

B. 接下來這些是比較經濟的下榻選擇,所以服務就相對沒有那麼周全。不過小編覺得這是可以認識其他入住旅客、經營者很好的方式,也特別能感受當地人情味。

5. (youth) hostel:青年旅館
6. B&B (bed and breakfast):民宿
7. guesthouse:招待所;小型家庭旅館
8. inn:客棧;旅店
9. tavern:小酒店
10. flophouse:廉價旅館
*lodge:(鄉下)旅館

C. 以下這些就是比較現代化,跟著時代所衍生出來的新興的種類,其中甚至有比較特別的種類噢!它們多半都有自己特定的目標客戶群 ( target customer) ,有機會真的好想嘗試一下喔!

11. apartment hotel:公寓式酒店
12. garden hotels:花園飯店
13. casino hotel:賭場酒店
14. eco hotel:環保生態飯店
15. capsule hotel:膠囊旅館
16. transient hotel:多半位在機場附近的旅館,都滿很高級的;也有直接稱:airport hotel 
17. floatel ( float + hotel ):水上流動旅館
18. boatel ( boat + hotel ):設有可停靠遊艇設備的旅館
19. rotel ( railway + hotel ‎) – 火車上的「移動旅館」

D. 度假類的豪華居住環境,彷彿徜徉在陽光、沙灘、spa 之中呢!

20. resort hotel:渡假勝地的旅館
21. vacation rental:渡假別墅
22. villa:別墅;花園住宅